OneLong8

At some point a transmission rebuild is inevitable, but should most A8's make it past the 200,000 mile barrier with ease? My 2002 just made it past 100,000 and is solid as a rock and still looks like new. It just seems like another 100,000 should be easy to attain.

Tom
2002 A8L

PaulW

Audi's last a lot longer than most cars.....but I would say that once you are over 150K and 10 years.....things start breaking.....so it's not very cheap at that point.

brunnhizzle

190k and running strong.

mAgnum8

You're not gonna get any problems out of the motor, that's for sure.

brunnhizzle

hey magnum what a8 do you have?

tehA8PIMP

Consumes some oil, but LOF every 3k miles takes care of it. I hope rebuilt tranny matches the 108k the original got.

Next timing belt is due around 210k for me, or the year 2012 or so

brunnhizzle

manual says that oil consumption is completely normal.

PJSC

I would say very few of them will. We have 12 of them in our yard at this time of which 5 were not wrecked when they came in (trans. issues) and not one has over 140,000 miles. The A8 has depriciated faster than the old V8's and who wants to spend $3,500 on a transmission rebuild when some of the early cars are barely worth that.....
We had over 40 V8's in the yard over the years and I don't remember one that had over 200,000. Again, most were totaled because of the transmission...........

DutchDoofus

My 2001 A8 TDI is on 192000mls now. Tranny still okay. Car looks like 50000k, as new on the inside.

HZach

was the fuel pump at 180k, still runs and looks great with original tranny, with hunting and thumping.
My previous Audi was a '91 V8 5 Speed, donated that one with ~250k as well.