Finally A8 4.2 driven: Total enthusiasm!

Hello, dear community!


I was on the road today with a good friend who helped me buy my A4 - he is always totally sober and objective; is extremely pingy about cars and sees nothing through a pink glasses.
I have an A8 D2 4.2 Quattro Bj on the Internet. 95 discovered in my neighborhood at the dealer's. I wanted to look at it and also take a round to the rehearsal. The reason is that I still want to get a car like this, if I finally found an engineering office for me.

The dealer was very fair and the car was also quite honest. For 4800€ you can simply not charge anything. Therefore, the car had of course some flaws, but also some fixed things. Good tires, new Tüv, a dry engine and a little over 180,000 km. There was a spot repair spot (mies!), a broken turn signal at the front and at the rear (glass defective), dry headlights, a broken armrest for the driver, ugly rims, a actuator in the interior that somehow ran to death, a strange clacking noise in the area of the engine. It was NOT the hydros, a valve or the camshaft...sounded almost similar to a diesel...but only from the left cylinder bench.


Now to the main part:
TOLLES driving feeling!!! Madness!!! With the old 4-stage automatic he went off great, whereby I of course did not torture him or treat him badly. Nicely carefully moves... how this is supposed to be!!! But the potential of such a machine became clear with one time and I can now well understand all people who don't want to buy a 2.8, but necessarily drive a 4.2. You are already shot into the seat with careful half-gas, as with my great A4 2.4 with full-gas and kickdown.


It is clear: I need a V8!!! I'm infected! And that's right.



So if someone is interested in the A8 in dark green from Castle-Holte: The defects are above. The automatic still switches soft and without jerking. With some investment of time and money, this would be a perfectly acceptable daily sledge with potential.