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Thinking of buying a manual 2014 A6 saloon ultra SE with 47K on the clock. What are the things to check? Common faults? Thanks for any help
My first question would be why would you be looking for a manual for a car like this?
Say’s a lot....
Prefer manual.Surprised you didn't get an answer of this.
My first question would be why would you be looking for a manual for a car like this?
I don't have experience with the car and I don't think there any many owners on this forum
Because it's cheap, this was the cheapest A6 you could get and consequently there are quite a few cheap ones on autotrader now they are getting older.
What says a lot? That you gave the members of a predominantly computer based forum less than 24 hours to respond to a very bland, 8 year old design Audi, or, the lack of response tells you that in fact there is very little to worry about?
And yes, I have an S6. Don't get a 2014 model, get a facelift variant (2015) onwards, but be prepared for an incredibly technologically poor, dated user experience, in an otherwise very well built, capable car.
OK, I think I will do that. Is there a trick to spotting the facelift models?I too would suggest holding out for a facelift if your budget allows for it.
I have had the pleasure of your aggressively superior perspective before. Your intonation suggests that I am looking for a cheap car? You do not know me.
Spend some time looking at yourself, maybe ask yourself why you feel the need to be rude and belittle others’ contributions - be they statements or questions. You strike me as a bitter, unhappy character, a know-it-all who enjoys spreading their misery but, hey, I could be wrong?
You are correct in that I do not know you. The only information I have is that you are looking at the 2014 A6SE manual and therefore my entire post is based on that.
I will concede my sightly terse response was a reaction to you moaning that nobody had replied within a matter of hours, which was perhaps poor of me but there we go
I stand by it - there is no other reason to purchase that particular model. It was a model more or less specifically designed for the company car market which had two main priorities - low benefit in kind value and low P11d value. Consequently a reasonable number of these models were supplied into the company car market and 6 years on it is these cars which occupy the bottom of the A6 market. The only real benefit of them over the rest of the A6 range is that they are cheap. This is no personal slur on yourself, it's just a fact.
You would be far better as a private buyer getting a model a little higher up the range - the A6 is a fundamentally decent executive saloon and it would be a shame to get one devoid of what makes it so. So, like the others suggest, ditch the 2014 and look at a 2015 onwards. Ditch too the SE specification and look at the better appointed S Line model. The manual gearbox and 2 litre diesel engine is also a fairly grim combo that has little redeeming features outside the low price (a product of its undesirability) and there is very little to prefer about a manual gearbox paired to a car of this size with a 4 cylinder diesel. The Stronic box is far better suited to the car and allows manual control if that's what you want.
Not sure if its apples for apples but I have the B&O option in my B8 S4 along with the nav plus, the bass is pretty cool and surround works really well and very configurable towards driver, front or rear zones.
I was originally looking for an aS6 estate but the carbon issues with the big lump put me off, still kind of wish they'd produced the 3l v6 SC engine into the S6 as its just that bit more roomy in the back bench.
It makes a mockery of even the highest end BMW system