Revived! My 346k mile Audi A7 TDI Hits the Road Again -- Service History, Tour, and Whats Next
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- Опубліковано 26 жов 2023
- Part II of my 346k Mile 2016 A7 TDI Prestige! This beautiful, one owner, absolute unit of a car recently underwent major open heart surgery receiving a new (used) engine! She's back and better than ever! In this video, I go through the service history ($58k of work done at Audi that I know about), give a walkaround of the car, and try to figure out what to do next (do I tune it???)!
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Now you got it back on the road, just drive it and enjoy it. Can’t wait for the detailing video
Very interesting story. I just bought this same car in the UK
I have to admit that deserves some respect. Most people would just scrap or junk a car with that many miles once a repair costs a certain amount. Kudos to you sir for keeping a well used Audi on the road. As far as what to do next? Maybe update the infotainment and sound system? Lovely looking car as is so doesn't really need much in the way of body kit mods. Tune it for sure at least to stage 1/1+.
Whoa, the previous owner replaced all injectors and DPF, that's very good.I also have a 3.0tdi Phaeton with 160.000miles.
I suspect the new engine have the original chains so it's still a problem for the distant future, not to worry about but just change oil at 7k miles max and 5w30 only!
5-40w
I can understand why people dump these cars before 100k the service and parts are crazy
The stuff the extended warranty covers usually fails because of the emissions system anyway. They're extremely reliable once deleted, get a signficant MPG boost and the 80hp extra on a stage 2 tune is a good bonus.
Egr?
what are your recommendations for an a7?
So glad you changed the engine..and you now have a fantastic car that should cover at least another 150,000 to 200,000 miles..👍🤛🤛
Keep the car "as is" without mods, enjoy it and take to 500,000+ miles
Hutchinson auto on the southside down from UAB are great and honest
Just Drive it and Enjoy it.. don't mess it up with altering .. with normal oil changes and maintenace.. you can take it to a million miles.. 👍
Have paint correction, revivify nano-coating/ceramic coating,PPE AND be aggresively early on your oil changes (Audis recommended oil change interval is total BS) - less dirty oil circulating internally.The additionally factory warranty is short - chances are you'll encounter more problems and headaches. Tune it and that torque is enough to make you swear and possibly smile like the Joker
Just subscribed watching your last video on this car
Thats a respectable mileage
Do you recall, my DPF went out a month after I bought my TDI and it was covered. So many super expensive components are covered under that warranty, if you read it. It is the only reason I bought the car because otherwise, it was an expensive gamble. $1800 for labor. My VW dealer wanted $1k to replace the thermostat on my TDI. Crazy! F you're states fees. Your A7 looks really nice, when I bought my MK6 with 62k it wasn't this clean.
There is a really nice car and unique experience. With this high mileage this car is still in the mint conditions. I believe to dump this car would be the biggest sin))
All that maintenance would’ve been a lot cheaper at a local (well known) German car shop but that’s the last owners problem lol. Nice car man, really clean for the mileage
Yeah, I thought the same. I know his service advisors were sad to see him sell the car! Thanks man!
What price you bought it for?
Tune it!
Questions2 - Where or what brand software to update the MMI? And have you entertained deleting it and Malone Tune?
So apparently all 2016’s came with the hardware to enable CarPlay, but only 17+ had it enabled from the factory. There’s a thread on one of the forums that goes into how to do it, involving downloading a bunch of bash files onto an SD car and loading them to the car.
It’s a pretty technical (and glitchy) process but there’s a guy mentioned in the thread that will do it remotely for like $50.
I’m still so tempted to take it to Audi, have them do the recall, and get me 4/48k mile warranty! But like at the same time that’s gonna kill the power even more and yeah there’s another huge part of me screaming “who cares about the warranty just delete it and have fun”
I’m undecided haha
Do you have an update on this car?
Seems like he didnt have too many issues before 300k--pretty good.
Tune it
The drive back to home chewed the engine up for a reason, and I suspect swarf and debris in the oil pan, it should have been dropped cleaned or replaced to remove the sediment and sludge. I think the previous owner did smaller journeys which didn't disturb the good and dirt in the oil pan, a state to state drive will push so much oil around the pan it into the oil circulation like a shaken snow globe.
Its so unfortunate because it would've been interesting to see this car go 500k or a Million miles on one engine like a Toyota, Honda, Saab, Volvo.
The bloated sensor based electronic system and German analysissy has turn the A7 into a cost computer. As nice as the previous owner seemed he knew or felt it was going out, or else he would have driven the wheels off it.
I know that sounds mean but in the car trade I've had plenty types of people lie to me that where wealthy, upper class even a children clown. Poorer social people tend not to lie as easily because they have a sense of guilt that chews them up.
What did you pay for the car?
If around $6-7k then you got a deal and now you’re ahead.
It was the fuel system that ruined your engine. The engine would have kept going had the HPFP failed. 346k miles it was due.
10k 😬 and at 15k with a used engine installed. So my idea to have a cheap, cool, A7 kind of got ruined!
I’m not unhappy though. Win some and lose some! That’s an interesting take, I figured the timing chain guides started breaking
You spent 15k, this car is worth about 20-25k???
@@danielcars367 15k all in isn't bad at all. how many miles did the Q5 donor have?
@@arthurs7882 Only like 110k!
@@danielcars367 That's not bad. This engine didn't have issues till like 2.5x that many miles!
Take the warranty unless it’s really important to you to have an extra 20% torque.
I hope you get it deleted because if you do it’s gonna get much better fuel mileage, power and last a lot longer with less things to worry about.
I was just thinking about throwing together a video on it actually! So I’ve just been driving it, at like 349,700 right now. Put brakes on it, a control arm or something has started making some noise so I have to address that, and I’m waiting for the pollen to die down so I can go out there and do a full paint correction, gonna look awesome!!
I’m still tossing the idea of taking it in to get the emissions fix done and claiming my 48k mile warranty! The reality of this car being nearly worthless has sunk in though and I figure if I’m gonna probably have it around forever I’d really love it deleted and tuned!
when is da next vid comin
Hopefully soon! I need to do brakes, rotors, a control arm that’s making a noise, and paint correction! Now that it’s nice weather out I want to get back to the cars