If your calling this the worst you should have at least gotten a b5 s4

You are not the first guy who bought audi 😁 i did the same thing 10.2021 and since then i repair it

Is the treatment working?

Drive it home Then : Project Car Sleeper Ls Swapp it Just pit a Junkyard Ls truck engine in it and 2 turbskies and make it 1000Hp But keep it as a Sleeper 🙃 Then race Cleetus in his Cronwn Vic 👌🏻🙏🏻

That’s real wood trim. I cracked one apart once. If its not real wood, then its fibrous splintery plastic that has a unique grain pattern from car to car.

Don't make him start another unfinished project 😂

I agree with that.

@@NotUrDJ facts!! 💯🤣

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Or atleast a low budget (3k or less) project: bugout/overland.

Underrated comment.

Wow wot a comment lmao ♍🦂🇬🇧

What a clown. I want my 4 minutes 6 seconds back.

Also attributable to BMW when they made that M3 that didn’t have a dipstick

SAME 💀💀💀💀💀

Well my Audi A6 C5 (the same as on video, but not Allroad) with 1.8T and Multitronic which is believed to be the worst gearbox ever made (reliability) went over 430k miles and is still going. Ture, I had to renovate the engine after 372k miles due to piston rings, valve seals etc were exploited, but it's and petrol turbo engine. Gearbox never was fixed, it never failed me and took me a couple times across the Europe. They are not bad cars, allroad is unreliable due to pneumatic suspension and because they were mostly sold with 2.5TDI V6 engine which had problems with camshafts, they worn out too quickly if you didn't put a good oil in time. People just don't like german cars for some reason.

@@s0beIT_SS i swear like american gearbox hold better

And the original owner

They're great looking cars. Audi mastered the restrained Teutonic look in this era.

I feel like if you maintain and dont abuse it. It should last

Your exactly correct. I have one currently but it's an auto. Stage 1. The car has been awesome

he talked it way worse than it is! I also find it hard to believe that belt came off like that, as it looks perfectly fine.

@@retsu4262 Probably a frozen idler/tensioner pulley. The mileage + extreme heat in that engine bay probably caused the bearing to bind up.

Absolutely. This guy is a noob and talks general internet based bullshits. What happened? He bought a totally neglected, misstreated but complex 20 year -old luxury Audi and finally he drove 1200 miles... yep, the most unreliable car / or Audi ever... At least he should have download some very basic material e.g. google ssp198, 242 or 243

This needs to be a sticker or shirt.

It totally should be on a shirt!

Get that clickity clackity negativity outta here

l did the same from England to Hungary. :)

you know that he checked the oil OFF Camera..LOL..theres NO WAY that Tavarish didnt check the oil..come on GUYS..LOL

Hoovie has a dealer's license again.

@@MyRegardsToTheDodo looks like maybe he learned from his past mistakes. Or...used car prices are so crazy he can't fail.

@@mphilleo Well, he did sell his first car with a $50 loss...

so true!

LOL yeah I dunno how he's gonna sell this back for $3k later on, but shows just how nuts the car market is/has been the last year or two.

Yes. This guy knows absolutely nothing about this car. The 2.7 biturbo he got is also famous for withstanding 450 hp reliably with stock internals. The car is also known for its great rustproofing

my 6mt is currently at 266k and still running great!

Did you have to deal with a/c lines too?

@@zzoinks You could get those out of the way without disconnecting them, just make sure you don't damage any pipework and support the heat exchanger and you don't need to worry about recharging or leaks.

@@nickmaclachlan5178 Darn, I wish I knew that. I had thought that it was required to disconnect the a/c lines and deal with properly doing it. We were thinking about fixing up our Audi but decided against when I thought that taking out the front of the car would be a big deal.

See the arlows RS4 Limo !

Agreed!! 😁

I’d rather the 2.7 then the 4.2 in the b7 generation 😂

@@bigzkiller123 i have 4 audis with 4.2 and have never had an issue in any.

@@bigzkiller123 one being an A8 with 220k miles

They are american and thats it. We, Europeans have tons of these cars and we know about reliability of Audi C5. We know too about reliability of bulletproof 2.7bit.

Exactly. Thank you! And 2.7 never had 30 valves It had 24. Tuners always swap the cylinder heads from the 2.8 with the 30V Source: owned and worked on multiple 2.7 2.8 1.8s

That's fully right my dad had 3 of these A6 C5 but with the 2.5 TDI BDH Engine and he drove with them over 200k Kilometers and they never broke down never. When I can buy my fist car it will be a A6 C4 2.5 TDI Avant Quattro Frendly grettings from Austria it's next to Germany

Why is there always someone who says the worst car is the best? Like do you think every other person is wrong and you’re right?

@@halogod0298 bro there’s literally a cult following to these

Doesn't he say that every other video though?

@@Dragooneyez yeah. But I think he actually meant it this time. And I think he’s probably right. Those things were horrible!

Oh noo, what about the Lotus project then?

@@TheBibliofilus IIRC that's on WED channel.

@@TheBibliofilus The Lotus would need to actually run before it could be considered unreliable.

Yes for a "car guy" he really seems to be dim witted. the losing power and stopping he should of just put it into neutral and turned it off, count to 10 " for the electronics to reset" turn the key on and put it into 4th or 5th and drop the clutch to restart it. doing it like this also thumps the fuel tank a bit to get the fuel pump running again "the way it was shutting down seems like fuel pump is on its way out" another way is to floor it and deliberately hit a few bumps or if the car is on the side of the road find something to hit the fuel tank a few times

@@javic1979 what you just wrote is incredibly dangerous and I hope you never do that on a populated highway.

@@tavarish Always try that using common sense and safety in mind.. But at the end of the day in this situation any vehicle losing power on a busy road is extremely dangerous. In Australia they have been putting barriers too close to the side of the road meaning if you break down your hard up against the moving traffic so its unsafe to stop in the emergency lane

Exactly what I was thinking, was kind of disappointed he didn't know this being a car guy

Actually you want to use the second highest gear, in this case 5th gear since it's a six speed.

Check out vice grip garage.

@@jonanderson4474 Agreed, VGG does a lot of these, except it usually also involves getting the car running in the first place, as he focuses on older cars that have been sitting for a long while.

Same here! 🤣

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Same here Brian my 2004 was fantastic I’m in the UK and over here we have the V6 diesel engine which is awesome

Always that one guy who because he was in the minority thinks that all that car was good because his was 😂

@@toddrobertson1398 They are a great car in general I take it you’ve driven one and you don’t like it??

you'd be understeering like the devil while doing them circles... God bless you for not noticing 🤣🤣🤣 "great handling" ye for scrubs that don't know how to drive in the snow and on ice.

@@SalimKhan-gk1fh no lol, he said it cus of everything that goes wrong on them... from the electrics to the air suspensions... They drive like a tank, the engines n drivetrain are all solid for most parts. It's everything else. LoL and the horrible understeer... 🤣🤣

One of the coolest cars in its day. Well-off farmers, who didn't want to drive their utilitarian pick-ups, used to drive them into town to conduct business. This before the whole SUV and luxury pick-up craze.

@@Schuler789 Mo

Why you Americans insist on calling all of the cars "she"...?? So weird. For instance this one, I mean Audi doesn't even remotely sound like a female name...

@@TermlessHGW I'm French you dimwit... In French the word for "car" is feminine so we often use "she" to talk about them. Get over it!

@@Schuler789 Still see 'old money' examples creeping about the leafy suburbs, countryside and inner cities. Usually mint condition other than a scraped corner or three.

It's engine's fault . 👏🤣

Someone speaking the truth!

If you take care of them, they are super cheap to maintain. Shouldn't spend more than $2000 on broken Allroad and same amount of money done yourself all the work or less will have it just as reliable when new. I have 4 A4s, S4, and an A8

Yup! Agreed!

What does cooling it down before turning the engine off entail? Is that only if the temps are elevated above normal operating temps?

@@pauliewalnuts240 Heres a example: Would you leave lasagna to crust over and dry on your plate over night or wash it a hour or so after done eating. Remember, when you turn off the engine, there is no flow, you may have a after run coolant pump like 2.7T have, but that's not doing much. The proper way to cool down a turbo car or any car even, after you beat the shit out of it, is to not race it it home and park it, turn it off, and go watch TV. You should atleast take it slow or normal speeds for about a few to 5mins and give the car like 20seconds to catch up on cooling in the driveway, thats the safe way (This was why turbo timers were invented) Ask me how I know. My S4 I raced it from Fort Lauderdale to up north 3 hours, now even I went easy on it for solid 15mins before I parked it. But those turbos were rebuilt at one put and my constant bashing of the car in excess of 1xx left the seals to shrink overnight just from how much heat the car probably still had. IT ALSO doesn't help that it went from 74f when I parked it to 50f overnight. I go to start it next morning and it sounds like the Kazoo kid was under my car, no boost. I go down the road and floor it and *pshshhshsh*.... it looked like James Bond just left a smoke screen. It has been sitting Since November now because of that, and me working on my other cars.

I’m the same way, if I had unlimited money, except for something like a gt3rs my dream garage would have rare old European or JDM cars. Super cars are cool, but not relatable the slightest

The only part of Allroads that really gave them the rep for being unreliable was the air ride suspension which just sucked . It was a fix one part and another would break system till you finally give up on it . If you find one like this one that's been changed to struts and springs it's no less reliable than any Audi from this era. The timing belt issue is like most major service on these cars it's an engine out which is why it cost so much for the labor . But if you can learn to do the work the parts are relatively cheap and available even to do big upgrades on the 2.7twin turbo . PS to find one with a manual trans is a huge bonus they're super rare with the manual and pretty fun too .

this allroad has 200k.

There is always a guy who says the worst car did them well

@@halogod0298 when they barely drove it 😂

@@topdollarmobile7460 yea

@@halogod0298 with proper maintenance these things can drive 400k.... here in germany most Allroads are still on the road and in good condition. You just need to care about your cars.

Ya but I heard his cat had kittens..or did it?? 😅

do people change the fuel filters when they buy a used car>

@@ianmontgomery7534 depends on the location. Most cars don't have in line filters anymore. If ive gotta drop the tank to get to the filter, it's not gonna happen until a failure

@@jonothanbarker9247 I like how some cars, like the Audi TT, I believe, you can access it underneath the back seat. For once, Audi did something to make the work simple.

That would be fantastic, and who knows, in today's market it might pay off! A rare, V6 manual Audi Estate (Wagon) fully sorted would definitely appeal to someone.

@@abarratt8869 Turbo V6. 2.7T. If you talk about 5 speed A6 C5 with the 2.8 or 3.0.. those are undesirable.

I had a B7 A4 2.0T and it was amazing. Great Quattro system, super ergonomic, but really frustrating at times. I want to own an old Audi with a Torsten diff again

@@jooei2810 mine started slipping around 200k so I changed the fluid and then it was fine. No clue how

I just looked at one and was like. wtf is that smell

@@sasquatchcrew I swear it’s crayons lol

I don’t think the Passat is the right counter part - that would probably be the B5/B6 A4. Although this got the same engine.

@@TheModManu B5 A4 shares a lot with the B5 (96-05) Passat. Heck the Haynes manual for both is literally the same book due to how much crossover there is.

@@FCoFix ... B5 and Passat B5 only share front suspension and engine components and maybe some drivetrain stuff, besides that no.

@@TheModManu yes this is a C5 chassis Audi, not B5 or B6 like a Passat

The Allroad shares very little with other cars in terms of body and interior parts. Some mechanical parts are also exclusive to the Allroad and are now a little difficult to find.

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I hear yah i lost my car after the car cancer got to bad and i had no choice but to retire her now i walk like a man lol

He's not driving a BMW.

From what I’ve seen, Audi drivers are quite possible the arch nemesis of BMW drivers

When you have a car that might break down at any moment, there is even more reason to do this.

Right lane what is this witchcraft you speak off? :)

@@piketfencecartel pretty sure that most people who can‘t get into right lane drive all kinds of cars The thing is the bmw would be probaly less a problem since usually bmw drivers drive fast

The automatic in my old 2.7t a6 lasted way longer than I expected it to without another converter or solenoid valve set

That being said I always wanted to do the 01e swap

Probably not belts but definitely some timing chains 😂

He also push started from 1st gear only asking for disaster and revved the crap out of it even before issue.

Yup i cringe a little every time i hear people say it's a big job. It really isn't.

​@@skrillah6259people are just hating for little to no reason I feel.

Probably has that sweet self lubricating chassis system. 😆

I have never loved driving a car more than my GTI. I was grateful to my mechanic when he told me to sell it

Power steering fluid... Ever considered a new rack/hydraulic pump lol

To be fair he didnt get it moving very fast 🤣

"car guy" hes a youtuber

Beat me to it I was about to say should have been 2 or honestly reverse if possible

@@TLO7 he has 20 cars worth more than ur house

@@TLO7 who built himself a McLaren from scratch.

Pro tip, the higher gear the better

​@@drayke8886 how did you work that out? 1st gear at 800rpm at 7mph 5th gear at 800rpm is 50mph So to dump the clutch in 5th i'd need the wheels spinning at say 25mph vs 4mph... not sure about you but i cant run 25mph pushing a car

@@jjmmjj9999 @ً ً i didn't say you have to push car to x mph and dump 5th, i said the higher gear the better for (engine, especially belt or chain).from hill you can easy dump 3rd.

@@drayke8886 ah yes I always fill the car up at the top of a hill????? Bro stfu. What you mean, it starting in a higher gear causes less damage and shock to drivetrain components. But its not better because to push start a car in a higher gear you need to be rolling faster. Downhill very easy, yes. Being towed also very easy... Pushing it on my own on level ground I'll stick to 1st gear

@@jjmmjj9999 you do you just don't come complaining that your belt broke. I don't get your commotion I just laid out simple fact that higher gear is better be it second (2>1 if you did not know). As you seen in video above 1st didn't do shit to his car but i doesn't mean it's desirable. Bye now and remember, it's your car, do whatever just don't argue that kick staring in 1st is as fine as in second or higher (for engine, not for your legs).

I had one. Loved and hated it.

Did your car also have the bi-turbo V6 like this one and air suspension? Based on what I`ve seen online among european owners, it seems like these things` poor reputation is an american thing, with the european counterpart being generally solid (though probably because most eu cars are either a petrol 4 cylinder, or a tdi)

I have personal experience with these too , amazing cars . Definitely not what they are made out to be . Great power and handling and reliable. You can beat on it all day without any issues . The air suspension isn't perfect , the bags do give up , but oem parts last long , 15 years+ .

I think the US ones are made over there as well, not Europe. Edit: assembled

@@andreanastacio9548 It was indeed the V6 bi-turbo, albeit in RHD. Eventually the air suspension did fail, but I found a 3rd-party kit online to replace the air struts with better aftermarket ones. I got the kit for the fronts only and it was about £280 ($335) I think. I guess I got lucky with the engine on that one.

What engine? I have a 01' A6 4.2 and I absolutely love it.

@@taconator7492 2.5L V6 TDI Went on to buy a C6 A6 and since a C7 A6 3.0L V6 BiTDi which I’ll be keeping for the foreseeable.

@@sy086 Awesome enjoy it!

Almost nobody here had audi with this engine. Americans like to tell myths and bs.

1.9TDI definitely more bulletproof lol

The cutoff for me is 10 hours, that or under I'm driving. Over I'm flying. I don't have enough PTO to waste driving.

@@IHateMyAccountName my point is”aside from PTO or $” a road trip is far more like living than the whole flight and airport experience. This from some one who had had hundreds of flights and road trips

Same with my A4 B6 1.9 TDI. The car aged great, feels modern still today.

Has nothing to do with reliable. You don't know how much money went into it already. Any Toyota would drive circles around this thing.

same here, got an '99 A4 B5 and after 15 years of constant driving with proper maintenance it's still going without any major malfunctions

@@cteez9191 There is no any Toyota (or any Japanese car), or almost any car comparable with this in term of versatility, performance, off road capability, top speed (and luxury) etc designed in only ONE car. It is a (1) sports car (like a M5) (2) family estate (3) a real offroader. To date, Allroad still the only one passenger car that can accomplish the Land Rover test track - despite it is called "all-road", not off-road. From technical aspect if you put a massive amount of refined technic in a relatively small place then you have a complex superb tool, a swiss knife which needs more than average supervision, cost and that is not for the masses or the "average driver". This engine itself is a supercar / racing car engine, in fact.

Yes, the front ends are put into service mode relatively easily. That 2.7 still sucks to work on though, trust me lol.

@@jkish14 No need to trust. I've had one for 17 years! 🙂See my user icon lol.

Yea, the B5 is not too bad. I did my 1.8T timing belt 3 times and it wasn't that bad.

That's right "service mode" remove: bumper, grill, undertray, rad support, rad, and condenser (yeah recharge a/c)...don't forget your triple-square bits

@@weaksignal8009 You don't need to recharge the AC by going into service mode.

@@lapurta22 that’s just bad policing

i believe it was the gearboxes that went bad on them

Yes gearboxes go bad and the 2.5 was not the best. But still a million times better than a lot of the junk they sell in usa

@@zlide engine, auto gearbox, suspension...

The v6 tdi used to eat up camshafts

Same here… on my 4’th… never Any big problems