Keen to buy but need a little help - 2003 Audi 1.8 Turbo wagon

[BDI]

Hi all - Its been a while since I have been on here.

Im looking at getting a lil family wagon - 2003 Audi 1.8 Turbo Quattro.

Audi 1.8 Turbo Quattro 2003 | Trade Me

Is there anything I need to watch out for? Anybody out there own one of these?

Cheers guys.

[stevienix]

with that amount of k's on the clock , not a lot realy
your usally looking around the 100 km mark for the cam belt (make sure you re-place the water pump at the same time)
also make sure its been run on 98+ ron anything under and your coil packs will be waving a white flag
done this on a 2002 tt , nearly ran out of fuel and the station i went to did'nt have 98 , 15 k's down the road 2 coil packs went
also make sure all the pixals are working on the dash , seams to be a glitch between 2000 & 2003 on audi dash's , there was a factory re-call on certin models but not too sure on that over here
um ...........cant think of anything else
good luck with the wagon

[BDI]

Cheers mate, I will hopefully take it for a test drive in the next week or so.

Always been keen on Euro's but 1 bad run with a VW VR6 scared me a little! - I know they are 2 different cars, just so used to Japs as they are dirt cheap on this side of the creek.

Do you know of any major problems with the tiptronic transmission for this model?

[Njay]

its actually not a tiptronic gearbox but a cvt. CVT are know to break if not serviced properly and can cost around 4-5K so its best to check it out

[BDI]

its actually not a tiptronic gearbox but a cvt. CVT are know to break if not serviced properly and can cost around 4-5K so its best to check it out

I thought the AWD Quattro had the tiptronic box in it? Is this correct?

[Njay]

i know that 1.8T came with cvt i assumed it was the quattro as well

as far as i knew only the 3.0 came with tiptronic but maybe im wrong