[For Sale: Car] 2007 Audi A4 1.9TDi Estate

[kvinyl]

Michelle's Audi A4 1.9TDi estate is for sale, only bought it last summer after spending a long time looking for one we'd be happy with. 165k KMs on it, metallic paint, taxed until July.

About a month ago €10 of unleaded was poured into the diesel tank by Michelle and the car subsequently driven...by Michelle...:helpme:

We've since had it drained, all four injectors rebuilt but a scope inspection has revealed the top of one piston is damaged. Advice we were given is that it would be more cost effective to replace the BRB engine which at this stage I don't have the appetite for. I've priced a few of these and they are retailing about the €1K mark when you can find them.

I'm going to try selling this as is, if we've no luck we'll probably hang onto it and look to replace the engine.
We spent €11,500 on this last year and then another €500 fitting a removable tow-bar to it - I'd be looking for €6.5K for it as is, discount available to Eircooled buyers...

I've currently no photos of it at the moment (well, it is water-cooled, what would I be photographing it for...) but here's one of a similar car I robbed from the web...



...actual photos to follow...

 

[Guest]

feckin women drivers

 

[JustinOval]

Ouch. No pancakes for Michelle.

 

[JustinOval]

Oh hang on - you only stated that it is Michelle's car, but the bit where you causally mentioned the act of adding petrol was distinctly absent of any incrimination...

No pancakes for Padraig.

 

[kvinyl]

Oh hang on - you only stated that it is Michelle's car, but the bit where you causally mentioned the act of adding petrol was distinctly absent of any incrimination...

No pancakes for Padraig.

No, no pancakes for Michelle, I was just being nice earlier...I've edited previous ad to avoid any confusion...

(I've knocked my own credit out of her for this event over the Christmas though...!)

 

[wackerwacker]

Does the car still run

 

[JustinOval]

No, no pancakes for Michelle, I was just being nice earlier...I've edited previous ad to avoid any confusion...

(I've knocked my own credit out of her for this event over the Christmas though...!)

Definitely no pancakes for you now.

 

[kvinyl]

Definitely no pancakes for you now.

Probably just as well, she might plan to put syrup into them and end up putting in something that might crack one of my pistons...

 

[kvinyl]

Does the car still run

Yes, still runs but very roughly. Rest of the car is perfect though...

Edit: Engine doesn't actually run, complete miss so won't turn over.

 

[p0x]

Stick it in a lake of water, photograph it, & throw it up on dumbdeal. 'Felt spec lads'll go mad for it. It'll be sold in no time at all, dodgy motor or not.

 

[knk]

Galway Reg?

Smokey?

 

[kvinyl]

Galway Reg?

Smokey?

Dublin reg.

Smokey? It wasn't before petrol was put into it, don't think it was after either, I haven't fired it up much since as it's currently at the garage that recovered it when it stalled first day.
I'll drop that way this evening and get some more photos, maybe start it up then too.

Edit: Engine doesn't actually run, complete miss so won't turn over.

 

[kvinyl]

Stick it in a lake of water, photograph it, & throw it up on dumbdeal. 'Felt spec lads'll go mad for it. It'll be sold in no time at all, dodgy motor or not.

yeah, was trying to avoid the curse of dumbdeal for as long as possible, might stick it up on Vagdrivers alright though.

 

[JustinOval]

Did you get a quote for the work to undo the damage?

 

[kvinyl]

Did you get a quote for the work to undo the damage?

The garage estimated about €1.5 to €2k to remove old engine and re-fit with replacement. I've got a quote for an engine from three different sources (UK, NI and Germany) and it was averaging about the €1k mark. I wouldn't attempt or trust myself to do the replacement but if somebody could do it themselves they'd have a cheap Audi at the end of it.

If it doesn't sell then I'll go down the route of getting the garage to do it, it was an easier option to just sell it as is and try and get some funds back in again. My daily is a commercial so not suitable for the school run so we're on a clock to get something with enough seats again. I'm gutted about the whole thing really as the plan was to run this for the next 4-5 years, barely got six months out of it...

 

[Bugnut]

Why can't you replace the piston?....or has the head been damaged.

 

[kvinyl]

Why can't you replace the piston?....or has the head been damaged.

That was my first query too, would have seemed like the most obvious route. The advice given by the garage is that you're heading into unknown territory if you go stripping the engine as who knows how little or extensive the damage might be. You may spend half the price of the engine going down that route and find out it needs even more money spent on it or is beyond economical repair. You'd then be back to square one looking for a replacement after spending a sizeable chunk of money already so probably safest option is to get replacement engine to begin with.

I've already spent a good bit on it getting it drained out, refurbing three injectors and replacing one so the appetite for going down the route of cracking open the engine with no definite cap to spending is just not there at the moment. If I keep it, I'll go the replacement engine route I think.

 

[Bugnut]

Fair enough.

Can't help feeling that piston replacement is going to be the best route, I do see your point though.

I know the feeling of going down an expensive route, but you say the car was bang on before the fuel mixup ?

So apart from the piston scoring, the injector damage, I cant really see what other damage could have been done that cannot be diagnosed without stripping the engine.

Or
Basically you have to strip the ancillaries of the engine anyway, you will want to take your new injectors with your new engine, so when this is happening half an hour will pull the head off and take the sump off to examine for any damage.
If your not driving the car anyway it might just be worth it, its not going to cost much more in labour if you have the engine replacement as your fall back position anyway.

You never really know how good a second hand engine will be either.

Just playing devils advocate, if it was a 2.0l tdi Id say bin it and start again but a 1.9....I might be tempted to fix the one I have.

Good luck though, its gonna hurt either way.

 

[JustinOval]

Bargain for somebody.

 

[duts]

That was my first query too, would have seemed like the most obvious route. The advice given by the garage is that you're heading into unknown territory if you go stripping the engine as who knows how little or extensive the damage might be. You may spend half the price of the engine going down that route and find out it needs even more money spent on it or is beyond economical repair. You'd then be back to square one looking for a replacement after spending a sizeable chunk of money already so probably safest option is to get replacement engine to begin with.

I've already spent a good bit on it getting it drained out, refurbing three injectors and replacing one so the appetite for going down the route of cracking open the engine with no definite cap to spending is just not there at the moment. If I keep it, I'll go the replacement engine route I think.

Sounds fierce like Ross's situation and we all know what happened there!