Pleased to report it's now covered 2000miles in daily use and no fatalities 
nothing has broken, nothing has gone wrong, successful motoring
nothing has broken, nothing has gone wrong, successful motoring 
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Have i bought the cheapest RS6 in the country?!
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I'm pleased to announce I have now done 4000 miles in daily use.... and nothings broken!
Its been a great family car, it's been camping twice
Been to Legoland
And had a trip down to Brighton aswel.
And required nothing more than lots of fuel and lots of washes
Just running around and commuting it's still only doing 15-16mpg, but touring up and down the country on the holidays it was just getting 24mpg
As it's been so good and asked for nothing I got it into work and started tidying the bodywork up, I'll upload all the pics tomorrow
Its been a great family car, it's been camping twice
Been to Legoland
And had a trip down to Brighton aswel.
And required nothing more than lots of fuel and lots of washes
Just running around and commuting it's still only doing 15-16mpg, but touring up and down the country on the holidays it was just getting 24mpg
As it's been so good and asked for nothing I got it into work and started tidying the bodywork up, I'll upload all the pics tomorrow
I got the RS6 into work to attend to some bad paintwork that had been bugging me down the drivers side
There was flakey paint down the drivers side where it hadn't been prepped properly and none of the moldings or trims had been removed
So stripped it all down, properly, removing handles, mouldings, trims, roof rails etc
And did a couple of repairs that were Rippley
Stripped the rear bumper down, I had never noticed before but my rear vents were actually colour coded, they'd been painted on the car
Ready for primer
All primed and prepped
Daytona Pearl
Gun finish!
Painted the grilles gloss black before they went back in
We have the whole car a machine polish up to match the new paintwork
And fitted it all back up
Wheels off to refit the splash guards
Gave them a clean while they were off
And all finished
It doesn't look alot difference in pictures, but in real life it was so bad before, and it's better than new now
There was flakey paint down the drivers side where it hadn't been prepped properly and none of the moldings or trims had been removed
So stripped it all down, properly, removing handles, mouldings, trims, roof rails etc
And did a couple of repairs that were Rippley
Stripped the rear bumper down, I had never noticed before but my rear vents were actually colour coded, they'd been painted on the car
Ready for primer
All primed and prepped
Daytona Pearl
Gun finish!
Painted the grilles gloss black before they went back in
We have the whole car a machine polish up to match the new paintwork
And fitted it all back up
Wheels off to refit the splash guards
Gave them a clean while they were off
And all finished
It doesn't look alot difference in pictures, but in real life it was so bad before, and it's better than new now
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If I ever had to have paint done again I'd seriously consider bringing it to you as I have such bad luck with bodyshops lol.
Great work
Great work
A few from a local show to me. The RS6 got alot of attention even though it was a modified car show. The colour had really come alive now it's all polished up, the pictures dont do it justice it's so sparkly it's almost metal flake!
Stunning work by the painter there, that is seriously impressive out the gun finish there.
All has been good in RS6 ownership
No major problems, with the MOT due I decided to sort a few niggles, it had a cracked windscreen when I bought the car, side to side, but it was below the wipers in the black so it never really noticed.
Got a friend that has his own windscreen business and he sourced me a screen, the V8s have a different size screen to a normal A6 (of course) so big up Gold Winscreens for that!
Next I had a bit of a low speed knock on bumpy roads which turned out to be front top mount, so put a pair of Lemforder top mounts on
While it was up I thought I'd loosen off at the adjustable rear suspension bolts ready to get a wheel alignment..... snap *******!
I had the same problem on my S6 too. So I knew what I needed and a reasonable order at TPS
And cut the old ones out
The rear top mounts were toast too
And all back together
Then had it all set up with a 4 wheel alignment.
Then a good wash
And an MOT pass
No major problems, with the MOT due I decided to sort a few niggles, it had a cracked windscreen when I bought the car, side to side, but it was below the wipers in the black so it never really noticed.
Got a friend that has his own windscreen business and he sourced me a screen, the V8s have a different size screen to a normal A6 (of course) so big up Gold Winscreens for that!
Next I had a bit of a low speed knock on bumpy roads which turned out to be front top mount, so put a pair of Lemforder top mounts on
While it was up I thought I'd loosen off at the adjustable rear suspension bolts ready to get a wheel alignment..... snap *******!
I had the same problem on my S6 too. So I knew what I needed and a reasonable order at TPS
And cut the old ones out
The rear top mounts were toast too
And all back together
Then had it all set up with a 4 wheel alignment.
Then a good wash
And an MOT pass
Yup great work as usual. Nice to see it being looked after so well, many of these C6 RS6's are turning into dogs now.