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New member - buying advice

1.7K views 4 replies 2 participants last post by  Critical_mass  
#1 ·
Hi all.

New to the forum as I'm looking to purchase an a5 coupe 3.0 v6 tdi. Seen as mint looking red one, but the seller says its down on power. Doesn't smoke and no eml. I know this is quite an open question but what potentially could this be?

Sellee suspects blown turbo on inlet manifold issue. But if it was the inlet manifold (swirl flaps) it'd show and eml and blown turbo it'd be really down on power and smoke.

It's quite far for me to go for it to be not worth purchasing but I could plug vcds into it once I got there. Just wondering if there's something obvious to someone and hopefully simple it could be.

Cheers
 
#2 ·
Hoping to go look at the car potentially this weekend, so if anyone has any advice that would be most appreciated.
Thanks!
 
#4 ·
Youre not the first to have said that and im going to take that advice. Cheers!
 
#5 ·
Well ended up buying this.

3 litre, quattro, sport. Very happy with it and omg the power!! Goes like stink with very little effort.

Now to get it remapped
 

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