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Audi A6 C7 313HP Biturbo: An honest review of a moon mileage daily driver!
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Jan 1, 2025
Here's a fun one. Bored and needing to make some content I thought I'd throw together some real world thoughts on my 190,000 mile tuned Audi A6 Biturbo. Some more context, I've known this car for 10 years. It's on it's original DPF, never had the injector seals replaced, it's been tuned to perfection and done 100,000 miles trouble free since and I do 500 miles a week in it...Some motor!
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if you get a good one it will be the
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best car you ever buy if you get a bad
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one you'll hate it and tell everyone
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it's the worst car in the world and
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definitely don't buy one can we just
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indulge me for a minute in a game this
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my favorite game how many miles has this
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car done
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this bad boy's almost done
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190,000 miles that's not to say that you
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should just go out and buy a buy turbo
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Audi whether it's an A6 or an SQ5 or an
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A7 because they are not without their
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problems maybe I just got a good
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one I'm fairly bias about this one with
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it being me own car however I'm not
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delusional in any way shape or form
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these A6 by turbos and SQ5 on without
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their issues they do have
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problems
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however if you want champagne Lifestyle
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on a beer
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budget this is the car for you if you
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get a good one of these that's been
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looked after they just seem to go on
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forever as a standard car these do need
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a little bit of work from the factory
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they're 300 113 horsepower and 650 Newt
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me of
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torque at the time that was really quick
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this was this was the headline car best
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you could get it was the equivalent of
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like a BMW
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535d don't underestimate how massive
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these cars are they are long they are
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wide to give you an idea of just how
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wide they are I am 6t across and 6t
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finger to
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finger I'm like not even high halfway
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into the passenger seat
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there these bad boys are
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big in this spec with the 20in wheels
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being an sine and blah blah blah these
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are quite a firm ride they don't waft
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along like you would expect a big
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executive estate car to do they've got a
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bit of firmness to the ride you can feel
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what's going on the
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steerings it's fairly numb to be honest
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but they do handle really well on a on a
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fast sweeping Corner they're actually a
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fairly responsive thing and they do kind
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of rewarding they're all right there's a
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few gearbox niggles that owners need to
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look out for one is the second gear
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clunk
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um these gearboxes when they work
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they're amazing when they don't work
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they're eye watering the
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expensive so yeah things to look out for
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if you're if you're ever going to buy
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one of these make sure you you put it
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through all the different Drive modes so
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you push the car button and that brings
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up Drive
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select if you put this into efficiency
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mode this one does clunk a little bit
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I'm going to kind of make it do it here
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that's fourth
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third oh there you go you kind of I
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don't know I don't know if that picked
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up on camera this has got the smallest
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little clunk when you put it into
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efficiency mode and basically what
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happens is it goes when you slow down to
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a junction it goes 4 3 2
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1 I just avoid
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it ignorance is bliss if you don't know
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it's clunking you're fine um the drive
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Mode's actually work really well
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obviously I own a tuning company so this
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is the best tuned one in the world what
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I've done is I've built in very heavy
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torque limitations and throttle
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responses into the various different
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Drive modes so when you put it into
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efficiency mode you get slightly less
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steering assistance the air conditioning
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kind of goes down a notch and the
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throttle response becomes very smooth
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and it rattles up through the gears as
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quickly as it possibly can when you put
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it into Comfort mode you get full air
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con slightly lighter steering and the
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gearbox revs a little bit higher before
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each gear when you put it in Auto it
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just has a mind of its own when you put
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it in Dynamic it opens up the exhaust
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speakers and makes those louder and
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turns them on and does all of that the
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steering gets much sharper the gearbox
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goes into S Mode so it revs higher you
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can change as well if you like the way
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it drives in Dynamic but you don't want
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the high Revan gearbox you just knock
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that back and you're in normal drive and
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then you've got sharp steering sharp
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throttle response noisy exhaust and
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normal drive and that's what I've set up
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to be on individual so if I just want to
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cruise around I can put it in individual
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I can have me noisy exhaust on and it
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still drives like normal car not bad
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shall I show you how fast it
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is it surprises me every time woo brakes
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aren't very good
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though and that's why I love this car it
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is like ultimate wolf in sheep's
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clothing it looks smart it's terrible F
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it's not it's not terrible average about
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40 that's not too bad it looks smart
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it's okay on fuel it has got all the
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space in the world for your wife kids
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fishing gear bikes on the roof
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everything the interior is a very nice
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comfortable calming place to be and they
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wear up really really
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well this car's nearly done
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190 1
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190,000 miles
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and look at it great if I was
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picking like I know people say like oh
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if I was driving to the south of France
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I'd pick this I'd pick that you've got
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to go within your budget if you've got a
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sub 10 grand budget and you want a car
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that you're going to go on long road
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trips on and it's going to service your
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family and be absolutely
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perfect really good bet not saying it's
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the best but these are a fantastic car
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if I was going to jump in a sub 10 grand
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car and go on a big old European road
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trip bet your bottom dollar I'd probably
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jump in
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this the seats are Mega comfortable this
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doesn't have the super sports seats this
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has the sine Comfort Seats with the Box
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pleated leather they've got electric
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Lumber support they're heated the heated
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seats are nuclear hot like they're
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really
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hot um it's got duone climate control
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contr it's got climate control in the
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back it's got bluetooth media streaming
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this one's got the basic RMC radio but
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it still gives you Bluetooth bluetooth
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media streaming maps from 2001 because
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you know why not these are literally the
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worst maps in the world it's got a
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reversing camera it's got keyless entry
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it's got heating mirrors the headlights
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are very good it's got by xenons which
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are excellent It's got LED tail lights I
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I think they're LED they look like LED
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basically what I'm getting at is buy a
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good one of these and you'll love
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it let's go to my usual spot Park this
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up make it look all cinematic and then
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tell you a little bit
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more about an A6 by Turbo but not just
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any A6 by Turbo my A6 by Turbo
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we've got keyless entry heated
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electrically adjustable memory seats
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Auto lights dual climate control
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Bluetooth with media streaming a normal
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radio nav that basically doesn't work so
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you can get about that and a telephone
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that actually works really well and
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that's all controlled through this old
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school RMC system the other thing that
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this has which is surprisingly good
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quality for the age of the car is a
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reversing
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camera potato cam it's got basically
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everything that you need and nothing
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that you don't and I'm all about that
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you might have seen from those few Clips
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the interior
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the interior quality and the way that
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this is worn up is absolutely fantastic
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you would never believe this is done
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190,000 Mi with these cars it's all
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about finding one that's not being
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abused if you get one that's being
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looked after it's going to look after
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you as you've probably gathered by now I
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think this is a fantastic car it's
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bloody brilliant however if you own one
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of these an A6 an A7 or an SQ5 or you're
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looking at buying one you have to factor
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tuning into your budget the reason this
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car is so good is because all of the
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little niggles and the laziness and the
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unresponsive gearbox and the numb
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throttle pedal and all of that is gone
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because it's been tuned there's lots of
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different ways you can tune these These
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are best with a good quality stage one
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tune around about the 370 380 horsepower
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Mark is a nice place to be because
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you're not just chucking in loads of
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fuel it's still going to drive nice not
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putting things under too much stress and
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a good quality gearbox tune the gearbox
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tuning on these is what transforms them
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you can really sharpen up the gear
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shifts you can rewrite the shift points
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you can increase all of the operating
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pressure so you get fast to pick up and
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pull away and you can reduce the amount
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of torque that's lost between gear
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changes so you just get this smooth
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consistent pull I'm not saying you have
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to bring your car to me that's not the
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purpose of this video but if if you do
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bring your car to me I'll fire you up
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and down the road in this car first you
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can have a drive this and go that's what
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I want that's worked for me so far on
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quite a few
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customers and if you're in the market
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for an Audi A6 buy turbo A7 by Turbo or
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SQ5 and I keep saying that because
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mechanically they're all the same they
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tune the same they've got the same
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engine and box and stuff like that if
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you're in the market for one don't
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listen to all of the negative people on
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the owner groups if you joined any of
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the owners groups for these you will see
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hundreds of people complaining about
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every little issue that they've got but
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the people that are driving round in
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them absolutely trouble-free with good
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quality cars that have been maintained
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serviced and looked after they're not
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posting up saying oh it's the best car
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I've ever had it's great oh you know I
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went and filled up with fuel today and
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the wipers didn't stop working people
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don't talk about good stuff but because
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these are quite a lumpy car that have
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come down in budget like you can go and
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buy one of these now for like seven
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eight grand for a rough one they're
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still like a really expensive car to run
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and maintain so because these have
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started to drop into cheaper budgets
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they've also started to drop into the
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eyes of people that can't afford to run
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them don't listen to those people go and
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buy one if you can afford one they're
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great I think that's the pretty uh I
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think that's the takeaway from this
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really a lot of people talk about
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upgrading the RMC or MMI system to like
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Apple carplay or Android auto or
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something like that there are kits out
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there that you can buy which look fairly
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cheap you can get them from about 300
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quid and they look really good in the
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pictures but they're absolutely
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terrible I'm uh I quite like music and
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one of the things that I love about this
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car is the speaker setup has got
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everything in the right location so it's
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got a nice Sound Stage so instead of the
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music just coming out of the speakers
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everything's presented to you um that
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sounds a little bit Pony but that's the
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best way that I can describe it it's not
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just sound it comes out of the speakers
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as music everything's set up well
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everything's good quality even if you
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don't have the Bose sound system and
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when you start running all of that
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through a cheap emulated lowquality box
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I would take the sound quality over the
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snazzy screen all day long so stick with
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Oe is my personal opinion more honest
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reviews that's what we're all about I
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love this car it's it's very boring now
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that I'm used to it but it looks great
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it dries great it ticks every box and it
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is irreplacable what what would I buy to
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replace this I'd have to spend 20 grand
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not spending 20 grand on a car oh stock
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up on mirror glasses we I rang TPS the
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other day for a mirror glass for the
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driver's side and it was is like 85 quid
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where am I going to go out and buy a
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high 300 horsepower is 800 newon
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Mish estate car with this much space
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with this build quality in as good a
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condition as this with all the options
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that this has got I'm not if I put a
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private plate on this and didn't tell
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everyone it had done almost 190,000 mil
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it looks like a 125 Grand car looks like
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I've done really well facts are it owes
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me less than half of that
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so take the brave pill take a risk go
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and find one find a good one definitely
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buy a high mileage car that's had all
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the maintenance done rather than a low
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mileage car that's been owned by an
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idiot you can't go wrong
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