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For sale A8 QS 12months MOT
sorry but i cant be bothered to re type everything again the bloody misses loged me off the computer while i had a phone call and i had spent over half hour typing the spec for my car in this add and you guessed it Gone!! :mad:
but any way hears a brief idea A8 QS 4.2 40V Custom respray in Midnight Black Quad AMG exhaust system cost over £1000 Solar sunroof Fully heated interior,seats,steering wheel ect Privacy glass electric blinds in the rear Genuine oem S8 mirrors S8 Grills Navi plus RS6 wheels with continental sport tyres on the front and N1000 on the rear tyres are New Brembo Super GT Discs custom made +all the usual 8 Refinements polly bushed ARB Links Tv in motion Looking to get A D3 S8 or W12 Has 12months mot fresh only a couple of weeks ago 150k on the clock Full service history including gear box service every 20k miles most of it audi some indipendent Cam belt and water pump change ect im not in a rush to sell it i dont have a price in mind just looking for offers would like it to go to a good home more than anything car is spot on i mean everything works perfectly as it should only bad bits are that there is some bubbling on the tank cap, but i can sort that for the buyer if they decide they want the car car has been well looked after and your more than welcome to plug it in and look over the car ! i have had the car for 3 years and it have never failed me it has been the most reliable car i have ever owned Make me an Offer +++ pm me im sure i missed all sorts out but feel free to ask anything you like i will post some up to date pictures in the next couple of days http://i866.photobucket.com/albums/a...8022012777.jpg http://i866.photobucket.com/albums/a...8022012773.jpg http://i866.photobucket.com/albums/a...8022012772.jpg http://i866.photobucket.com/albums/a...9122011669.jpg http://i866.photobucket.com/albums/a...9122011664.jpg http://i866.photobucket.com/albums/a...9012012721.jpg |
Very high spec on this, not a qs though. Good Luck with the sale, Guy. +++
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Lovely, why do all the good cars come up after I bought mine. I would have jumped at yours, but have spent way too much sorting mine and I am still not there yet.
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it has S8 coilovers on it ect the only thing i did not put in was sports seats because the comfort seats are rare in the swb i only know of one person on the forum with the same seats +++
also just to add that the carbonfiber sat nav gps on the boot has been removed and replaced with the oem silver one, looks really good with a black boot and a silver gps, seems to match the chrome ect +++ |
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im willing to bet by the time mine sells the the W12 i want will be gone then i will be stuck at square one again |
What year is the car and where about are you located?
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*'cough* buy mine .. you'd love it as.much as a w12 *cough*
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London Smog getting the better of your throat eh ? :D
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its a 99 but its right on the change over to a facelift so it was packed with all the toys and goodies +++ and im located in north wales, LL36 0Ah
psyche what is your spec again ? year, engine, ect ? |
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See here: http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4254 If you're interested in upgrading to a D3 on a budget, I think you'd go a long way to find a better example, with this mileage and all the important toys.... |
That is nice and would need a few bits doing to it but im quite fussy in that i would like more power and i like black or cream leather, the D3 is slower than the D2 the extra horse power is not justified with the extra kg of the D2 but the W12 is oh so more powerfull and with the prices of the W12 coming as low as 7,995 i would want the full works D3 4.2 for 7k or D3 W12 for 8k ? of course would all depend what i get offered for mine as well+++
i also looked at this A D3 A8 http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3660094.htm i have infact made him an offer for part exchange and he is very interested and will get back to tomorrow so i may end up with just a standard 4.2 D3 but im sure they are a great car if not better than the D2 ? |
looking for a quick sale now as i have found the car i want, any interest ?
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Am actually after an a8 2000-2002 D2 (or 2003 D3) but with LPG. But both yours (fabulous looking car - better than D3 IMHO) and Psyche's reasonable £6k D3. I have discarded Psyche's D3 purely the fact its gonna cost me another £2k to add LPG to it. I have to be honest, I have no plans to buy a non-LPG A8 - but I will PM u just to see if the figures (and the hassle) add-up if the price of your D2+LPG is worth it. Thks. |
There is every chance the tax breaks on LPG will be removed any time soon, so complete waste of money spending out on an LPG conversion now in my opinion.
Just buy a good petrol A8 any enjoy it. |
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lol - I agree! Hence I prefer to buy an A8 with LPG! But, I heard the government need to give 3 years notice to waive the subsidy it is giving to LPG now. Currently, I have a Subaru Legacy (28mpg), but I do over 40+mpg purely on LPG :-) But, I want a change and the A8 sounds very nice and on par with my Legacy in terms of power/luxury/toys etc.... |
Absolute stunner
This car is truly stunning...the sound from the exhaust is unbelievable....an a8 in this colour with this many extras is gona be hard to find!!!!!
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Thanks Ranj i will be sad to see her go but after much debate im quite sure the W12 will put a smile on my face, its a bargain of a car really and i dont want to have to break her just to get the money back from the car, i could be tight and sell it with no quads and put the standard 17" wheels back on ect as the quads cost me over 1k and the Rs6 wheels were 400 then putting continental tyres on was not cheap, but im not being greedy for what the car is i have asked for £3,850 ono and to be honest i think its a dam load of car for that kind of money Hands down +++
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Its worth bearing in mind though that upgrades aside, your car is a 1999 early facelift with > 150,000 miles on the clock. This would make it worth significantly less than you're looking for. The spec is good, but not than special for the age.
You may have spent good money on the exhaust and paintjob, but these things never bring any money back, and in my experience the majority of buyers want to buy an original car that hasn't been tweaked. If you can find a buyer who wants an early facelift, with high miles, a custom paint job and quad exhaust, you might scrape 3K imo. Otherwise you might have to consider dropping it quite a bit to move it on. Anything over 100K miles drops like a stone in value. Sorry, just trying to help your expectations or you're going to be sat with it for quite some time.... Its a buyers market right now, and anything with a petrol engine is struggling to reach anything like last years values. Ignore Autotrader prices - Most adverts are overpriced and not selling anything as a result. On the plus side, any replacement car you buy should have quite some room for movement in price if its a thirsty petrol. Just look at the way the D3 S8's are tumbling. |
Buyers market..., sellers market...
Since selling car don't gain me any capital I've got very interesting and unusual strategy -- I never sell cars. Never sold a car in my life. I'm serious. I drive car until I smash it or until someone else writes it off. Purchasing car is big commitment to me. Before choosing a model I do a lot of research. I have multiple requirements, like timeless design, reliability, etc. Once car is purchased I forget about monetary value and depreciation. "To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part". This strategy is good for morale +++ In good car everything can be repaired. Except maybe chasis in some circumstances. This strategy allows me to forget about costs and concentrate on genuinely enjoying car ownership. This allows me to never limit myself in taking care of car. Old leather? Well, I will buy new leather. From Audi, not from A8Parts :) Gearbox dead? No worries, new gearbox, what's the problem? Old paint? Well, we will paint it. A logical continuation of first principal is the second principle, which is 'F*** Fuel Economy'. I concentrate on rising income, not on cost cutting. I also think fuel should be much more expensive than it is now. This will remove drivers who don't share my principles from the road as I really hate traffic jam. UK motorway system is far from complete and I don't see any government plans to build more motorways. If there are no plans for new motorways I'm for 5x rise in fuel costs as soon as possible. Too many cost sensitive people on the road :) Sometimes I sound cynical -- I know, I know :) Third principle is that car should be as quiet as possible. Ideal car is limousine. I like exhaust upgrades on other cars, but not on mine. This is not trolling attempt. I'm just observing people jumping from one car to another every 6 months like grasshoppers and contemplating :) |
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Notorious I have to say i do admire your thinking. However, if fuel prices rose 5 fold....then it would cost 500 pound till fill one tank on the s8....which is unreal and it would really just be cheaper to fly (1 hour of avgas costs about 130 quid)....lol
The reason I buy an older car is because I do a fair few miles, and no matter howmany miles I do there is not going to be much in the way of depreciation. Further, I hate not being able to do my own servicing, which would be the case with a car under warranty. As for changing cars every 6 months....I dont change my cars that often but sometimes I just get an itch to drive something different and so change. I have to admit I m already missing the s4....a manual v8 with miltek...when I'd accelerate hard it would just roar and the thril of the torque pinning you back in the seat was awesome....dont get me wrong the s8 is an awesome car also and is effortless to drive with its comfort and build quality....but with the s4 being a smaller car it felt more agile and one felt the acceleration more and the manual gearbox just gave me more control and reassuring confidence.....in short I dont think it is a case of changing cars for the sake of it but when you drive as much as I do, which I think you do, then the occasional change in car just makes the daily drive a little more interesting.... |
I totally understand that and this is why its a hard choice im of an age where most 22 year olds are driving clapped out escorts ect, i aim slightly higher than that i have wanted the W12 for years and any cars i have had before the W12 have been simply a compramise
buy now that the insurance has come down and my no claims are much higher i can finally get the car i wanted all along and then i can settle with it and just enjoy the car, i do not intend on any mods at all maybe some very very light tints just to set it off nice, and hell if i were worried about fuel econ then i would not opt for the W12 +++ the way i look at it i have had tuned subaru's that would only return 17mpg so why not get a much more luxury car and still have the same fuel econ ? in that case i will drop the price to £3250 ono and im sure that will leave room for people to haggle as they all do hear is some pictures of the new girl +++ even got a Full comp warrenty for 6 months plenty of time to find any niggles with the car http://i866.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/DSC07644.jpg http://i866.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/DSC07641.jpg http://i866.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/DSC07640.jpg http://i866.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/DSC07639.jpg http://i866.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/DSC07637.jpg http://i866.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/DSC07633.jpg http://i866.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/DSC07636.jpg http://i866.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/DSC07634.jpg http://i866.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/DSC07633.jpg |
My own opinion of car ownership in the UK used to be that it is our every right to learn to drive and ultimate to own our own cars...but as times goes by we have seem to have lost the fact owning cars is really really expensive and to be honest a luxury that we don't really need - esp. in this economic climate - but we seem to have drilled in our minds that - we MUST have a car and it is our rights, whatever the cost.
It is not only in this country that we have this problem, in Singapore, u actually need a "certificate of entitlement" which costs 10's of £1000 (if I remember right) before u can buy a car (and then the cost of a car in Singapore is even more expensive than the UK). I admire Notorious way of life towards cars +++, and I have tried to do the same, but life is too short and I have always had an itchy backside (excuse my french) to move on and have something different and ultimate like the film Bucket List(?) I like to own certain cars before my time is right. Question for Notorious - is there a time when a repair cost way too much and u decided to rid the car than repair it? I'm afraid I'm one of those that car-hop (change cars as often) and here's my list (without showing my age - no years attached :-)... 1. Ford Fiesta (ownership 2years) 2. Austin Metro (2 years) 3. Ford Escort (1 year) 4. Mazda 323 (1 year) 5. Mazda 323F (2 years) 6. Honda Accord (1 year) 7. Peugeot 106 (1 year) 8. Daihatsu Sirion (2 years) 9. VW Golf (2 years) 10. Ford Focus LPG (1 month - LPG problems) 11. Ford Focus (2 years) 12. Lexus IS200 (6 month) 13. BMW 120d (2 years) 14. Subaru Legacy LPG (2 years) 15. Audi A8 LPG (TBC)... Interesting to see what others have on their bucket list (had) and what they like to have later in life....:ROFL: |
Hi DaviesBike,
It certainly looks like your new W12 is as fabulous looking as your D2 - haven driven it now, how does the W12 compared with the D2? I am sorry we didn't get any further with the sale of your car - I guess I was tempted, but if it had an LPG system on it, I might have tried to negotiate on the price. Why don't u put the car on gumtree (free) and test the waters? |
Cheapest D3
Is this the cheapest D3 on the market (though its only a 3.7):
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEEDS-GO-l...#ht_938wt_1139 |
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I think anyone driving anything weighing under 10 tons should just be driven over and crushed in their insignificant little aluminium box. http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...1&d=1330592681 |
>> is there a time when a repair cost way too much and u decided to rid the car than repair it?
I don't think repair costs rise with age. Older cars I think are even easier to repair than new cars. The real pain is parts availability. For instance, for Audi 200 lower quater lights are not available from Audi any more as this is 20+ years old car.You can only buy used part. People who break cars know that, so prices go up. Supply and demand thing. |
Hi Dezzy,
I agree road traffic problem is not as simple as it seems. I'm convinced to withdraw my proposal of 5x rise (my second principle still stands though) :) I also claim motorway network on south east of England in not complete and I don't see debates about it on parliament channel. If someone travels from somewhere in East Anglia to Berkshire he has to use M25. No choice. If someone drives from Dover to Midlands it is damn M25 again. No choice. I'm for choice :) |
Dezzy,
Mine's a 2004 Legacy H6 (Mk 4 and the most expensive model). Obviously there will be no comparison to a 2004 D3 - D3 will win hands down. The legacy is a complete different quality to the Impreza. It is infact the only Subaru model with a luxury and quality feel to it - starting from the Mk4 (even the latest Impreza is very plastiky inside). This is same is mine (but lower spec): http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2005-05-Su...ht_1041wt_1139 Mk 3 (what most people like - I agree): http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SUBARU-LEG...#ht_961wt_1270 Mk 2 (still looks fantastic for its age): http://www.uklegacy.com/forums/index...c=120393&st=20 |
The A8 on par with a legacy? I'm sorry but the D2 is better made then any brand new Jag/Lexus and Merc. I've never been in anything as solid and quality feeling in all my life. There is no way a Legacy could hold a candle upto a D2 A8, not even a pre facelift 2.8 when it comes to quality. Good luck with your search Chan, you won't be dissapointed. +++
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I think you'll be lucky to see anything the right side of 2k to be honest. You car has been well cared for no question, but the mods will put some people off, especially those struggling with insurance prices as the mods make it harded and more expensive to insure. The mileage is the factor that's going to hit your price most though |
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I think you're about to go on a journey of discovery Chan +++ |
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I am sure u are both right - apologies, hope no offence by me comparing the D2 with my Legacy (but, am sure some twin-turbo Legacy would give the D2 a run for its money on performance) :rolleyes: Let me re-phrase, I am looking to buy a D2 (even though older than my Legacy) because it seems to offer better quality and performance than my current legacy. The A8 would be an upgrade for my Legacy...it would be hard to beat the germans on quality alone +++ I am very much eager to get my hands on a D2 (possibly D3 if I see a bargain). I have given myself til summer to replace my car - so no rush. I like the look of the D2, but the interior of a D3...so still 2minds abt it, but cost would definitley bring me back down to earth to a D2. |
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I'm a lover of Subaru even the Justy 4x4 that was hilarious and the Brat was a true trojen, but it's just not a maker i would put on par with Audi for luxury. I haven't however been in a mk4 Legacy it would have been a M or N plate ish i would have seen the inside of.
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you will have far more fun to drive the D2 than the D3 regardless of BHP and you do get more for your money with a D2 as prices fall,
as for under 2k, was offered nearly 3k for mine as a Part ex, so i did wander if i should put it all back to standard and sell off the bits, ie Ranj wants my quads, and i have someone that wants my RS6 wheels and offered me £500 for them so maybe i can get more money by selling it cheaper and re couping the money by selling off the mods instead ?+++ Oh and just my 2p worth, subaru build quality is nothing like Audi let alone the quality of an A8, i have had a Wrx sti and a legacy and nether cars have been as good as the A8 +++ |
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Hi DaviesBike,
Unless the ideal buyer comes along, yes, it might be an idea to flog the expensive mods and sell the car as standard kit. But still no harm in testing the water on the likes of gumtree - u never know until u try and there might be an enthusiast out there just waiting for your car to come on the market! If not, then u can sell the car as standard kit... Subaru nothing compared with Audi? I hope so! I am very much looking forward to owning an Audi now - after all the positive comments here!:D |
Ok so wheels are going on to someone else and im going to ask for £2,999 on nearest offer now i do not want to have to take the car to bits to be honest, and i think thats a good price +++
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