Anyone have experience with Audi TTs?
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Anyone have experience with Audi TTs?
My older daughter has spoken: I'm adding an Audi TT Roadster to the fleet (and it is seriously is a fleet: 7 cars!). '04 with 85k on the clock, cosmetically great condition in and out, clean bill of health from my mechanic, $6k. It's a 1.8T with FWD.
Any thoughts from the group?
Any thoughts from the group?
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Apologies for the snark, been cleaning up puppy **** all morning here. Might try asking in off topic, that's a broader audience than the 928 group.
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Shawn,
Hit up Dave C (worf928) , he will set you straight on the TT, at least he did for me a while back.
Cheers,
Dave
Hit up Dave C (worf928) , he will set you straight on the TT, at least he did for me a while back.
Cheers,
Dave
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Had an 01' Audi twin-turbo coupe with (IIRC) a 6-speed. Fun car and the all-wheel drive is very important, don't buy one without it if you are using it during the winter in the mountains. Typical $1K water pump/timing belt needs at 65+k miles. Glove box latch is a POS, a very common problem and you have to damn near pull the dash to fix it. Good gas mileage and holds up reasonably well. Cup holder requires a triple-jointed reverse positioning of the right shoulder to insert/remove a container and a console/dash trim piece put constant pressure against my right calf while driving long distances. $6K SEEMS a little high but that can be verified fairly well with online comparisons. I'd buy another for a winter daily driver but found an AWD Beemer coupe that is more comfortable.
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No experience with the Audi TT chassis, but I owned a VW GTI with the 1.8T same engine. It was an effing nightmare to keep running right. For a while, after purchase it was a weekly event for me and my son to hunt down the latest CEL cause. Vac issues, boost control issues, injector failures, COP failure(multiple), oil leaky turbo and more. I would run from anything with the 1.8T.
Edit: how could I forget the failed timing belt! I recall there was a big mess in VW about the 1.8T and junk timing components, but I'm working from memory of 10 years back .
YMMV, objects in mirror, contents have settled, and may cause **** leakage.
Edit: how could I forget the failed timing belt! I recall there was a big mess in VW about the 1.8T and junk timing components, but I'm working from memory of 10 years back .
YMMV, objects in mirror, contents have settled, and may cause **** leakage.
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I have an 04 TT roadster with the 3.2 VR6 motor and dual clutch trans. Lots of fun, but different from the 1.8 turbo version.
Build quality is very good, interior is excellent quality also. Turbos have other issues than the 3.2 VR6 motor. There is an active site
https://www.ttforum.co.uk/forum/viewforum.php?f=113
which has lots of info (mostly UK posters). and this site (below) that has lots of technical info.
http://www.wak-tt.com/
Build quality is very good, interior is excellent quality also. Turbos have other issues than the 3.2 VR6 motor. There is an active site
https://www.ttforum.co.uk/forum/viewforum.php?f=113
which has lots of info (mostly UK posters). and this site (below) that has lots of technical info.
http://www.wak-tt.com/
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Over the course of 17 years, we put about 250k-miles on three Mk1 TTs: 2 180s and 1 225. All quattro. (We also had two mk-IIs, but that’s irrelevant to this.)
The only consistent problem was instrument clusters. We went through 5, IIRC , all but one under warranty. No COP issues, no sludge, no t-belt issues. But, I always had the t-belts done ‘early.’
The 5-speed gear box in first/second-year 180s was weak. The 6-speed boxes were robust.
Ours were year-round DDs and eventually (a decade) the salt damage caused i$$uses for various non-body metal bits: power steering lines, a/c lines, etc. (No robust zinc plating anymore.)
The MK1s are great little cars. They are German so expect to pay to keep them running. But, outside of the occasional “problem child” where the failure bell curves of many parts overlap, they have - IMO - fewer issues that other Audis of the era.
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The only consistent problem was instrument clusters. We went through 5, IIRC , all but one under warranty. No COP issues, no sludge, no t-belt issues. But, I always had the t-belts done ‘early.’
The 5-speed gear box in first/second-year 180s was weak. The 6-speed boxes were robust.
Ours were year-round DDs and eventually (a decade) the salt damage caused i$$uses for various non-body metal bits: power steering lines, a/c lines, etc. (No robust zinc plating anymore.)
The MK1s are great little cars. They are German so expect to pay to keep them running. But, outside of the occasional “problem child” where the failure bell curves of many parts overlap, they have - IMO - fewer issues that other Audis of the era.
Disclaimers: YMMV. My non-928 advise is worth (probably less than) what you pay for it. Absence makes the heart grow fonder and dims memories of traumatic events. Common side effects are: irritation and increased risk of stroke.
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This was very-much certainly true for A4s with the 4-pot motors. They had - so I was told by a master tech - an oil line than ran over the exhaust side (or something hot like that) that ‘cooked’ the oil all the time.
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Thanks, everyone!
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No ownership experience here, but picked one up for a friend in PA while I was on a business trip there and drove it home to him in SC. It was the limited edition one with the silver body and black roof - 6 cylinder motor and SMG trans. It drove great!
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The 1.8T engines can be fairly reliable. I put about 50k on a 2000 A4 over the course of several years. Timing belt and water pump replacement are a must if you don’t know the service history or when it was replaced (cover pops off easy for inspection) vacuum lines should be gone through and replaced as they get very brittle and will cause rough running / fuel economy gremlins. Overall, if taken care of , the engines are pretty durable. I didn’t have nearly as many problems as the other Audi owners in the forums I was in though .