long/short... I have a friend who ignores things like timing belt replacement intervals. He has a bent valve on one bank of his S4 w/ 150k on it.
He is faced with selling to me on the cheap so I can part it out, fix it or make it the most perfect car to ever run the first few minutes of the 24hrs of lemons on 5 cylinders.
motor has to come out, and some special tools required, but once out and tools are purchased, it would be kinda easy...
DukeOfUndersteer wrote: motor has to come out, and some special tools required, but once out and tools are purchased, it would be kinda easy...
The easiest way to fix it is to sell it to me, preferably really, REALLY cheap. Please?
OK, well that brings up the next question... how much is a 150k mile 2000 S4 in otherwise nice shape with low compression in one cylinder and rough idle but runs and drives worth?
I'd like to be fair as this is a friend and he has already been taken advantage of by the repair shop who put a new belt on (and changed the water pump, t-stat and a host of other tune up items on a car that came in with a broken t-belt).
Sounds like a bent and soon to be broken valve waiting to happen. If you have any thoughts of bringing it back to life, maybe drive it onto the trailer... maybe...
How long to fix? Not sure... all I know is it took an Audi dealer 8 weeks to fix a broken TB in my '98 A4 2.8q (they replaced the heads).
In reply to Giant Purple Snorklewacker:
id give him 2 or 3 grand for it, maybe...
Sounds like you need a new friend. Preferably one that owns or works in an VW/Audi shop :)
Mine had 141k on it and ran relatively well and I dumped it for 5k and was happy about it. 2k tops.
You are not going to want to swap an intake valve out yourself. A few of us ended up all pitching in for the factory tools a few years ago, best way to do it.
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