I have a buddy who has a line on a 2001 Audi A6 3.0L V6 with what is reported as a bad engine. The car has aftermarket springs, new tires and the automatic.
I have looked at it and the timing belts are still attatched but the owner swears it broke one. I was going through the owners service records and noticed last year there was a quote for the right side catalytic converter (from a low flow situation)
Our techs don't want to mess with it for some reason which has me a little scared, but the customer has been a pain in the past, so I bet they are covering their asses instead of putting in $6000.00 worth of engine and finding out it just had a bad cat.
Anyone have any experience with these?
It is actually an A4 3.0L V6 (I just walked past it and realized I made a mistake)
timo
New Reader
5/20/08 12:02 p.m.
Check out http://www.dubsinthebuff.com/forum/. Lots of VW/Audi expertise there.
If it's an '01 it should be a 2.8l. If it did actually break the timing belt, they generally bend the intake valves and don't really hurt anything else. Once you take the nose off(which you pretty much have to do the do the belts) there's plenty of room to work and they're not bad at all to take apart. So worst case, $1000 for an engine, or $15 a piece for intake valves, $100 for a complete headgasket kit, and $220 for the complete timing belt kit.
It is a 3.0L (t code) it REALLY does not look like it is the timing belt unless a tensioner terded and it jumped time. I can get it for cheap enough to Challenge it but I am third in line and am FLAT broke. (Buy my crap).
I would rather see it as a driver/autocrosser.
A lot of times when the timing belt goes on those it just strips the teeth off around the crankshaft gear, so it wouldn't look broken until you pulled the crank pulley and timing cover off. Take one of the top timing covers off and tap the key or turn the crank with a socket and see if the cam moves. Oh, and I'm pretty sure that '02 is was the first year for the 3.0l.
It is a 2002, I had printed out the Elsa/Otis on it and saw the build date and got it in my mind that it was an '01 A6 when it is an '02 A4.
I will take some photos tomorrow and check the belt.
