Earlier this year I was wafting around in a Volvo S80. It was comfy, and went well enough, but it was my one and only experience owning a diesel and I just couldn’t get used to it.
Back in March I’d been on the look out for a V70 or Superb estate when a friend texted me the RMS classified listing for @Darren91 ‘s Audi A6 and I thought it was pretty cool looking.
I’d a look over his thread and thought it was alot of car for the money and even better, it looked to have been well looked after, but it was over budget, it wasn’t an estate and it sounded thirsty for daily driving duties. I did some very sketchy man maths and thought, I could maybe make it work, but asked my friends to talk me out of it. They did the opposite and I ended up bringing it home.
So I’m back in a petrol car again. It’s a 3.0 supercharged V6 that’s been mapped taking to to around 400bhp. At 2009, it’s also the newest car I’ve ever owned. I know nothing about what the spec is like compared to others but it has all I’d need, apart from maybe front sensors and electric folding mirrors.
Since March I’ve done very little apart from put a plate on it and put petrol in it. Lots n lots of petrol. It’s actually pretty brutal on fuel, but I guess I gotta feed the ponies.
Future plans I don’t know. I’ve thought about a smaller pulley for the supercharger but it’s already pretty quick. It’s also a bit funny sometimes with Bluetooth calls and the nav is clunky so I’d maybe try and put CarPlay in it.
I finally found a day today to get round to polishing it and I think it came out quite well.
Back in March I’d been on the look out for a V70 or Superb estate when a friend texted me the RMS classified listing for @Darren91 ‘s Audi A6 and I thought it was pretty cool looking.
I’d a look over his thread and thought it was alot of car for the money and even better, it looked to have been well looked after, but it was over budget, it wasn’t an estate and it sounded thirsty for daily driving duties. I did some very sketchy man maths and thought, I could maybe make it work, but asked my friends to talk me out of it. They did the opposite and I ended up bringing it home.
So I’m back in a petrol car again. It’s a 3.0 supercharged V6 that’s been mapped taking to to around 400bhp. At 2009, it’s also the newest car I’ve ever owned. I know nothing about what the spec is like compared to others but it has all I’d need, apart from maybe front sensors and electric folding mirrors.
Since March I’ve done very little apart from put a plate on it and put petrol in it. Lots n lots of petrol. It’s actually pretty brutal on fuel, but I guess I gotta feed the ponies.
Future plans I don’t know. I’ve thought about a smaller pulley for the supercharger but it’s already pretty quick. It’s also a bit funny sometimes with Bluetooth calls and the nav is clunky so I’d maybe try and put CarPlay in it.
I finally found a day today to get round to polishing it and I think it came out quite well.
I also toyed with putting a cat-back Jetex onto it but it just wafted about too easily and feared it may have ruined it. I updated the MMI firmware to the latest version that was available at the time, there well may be another later version available.
