A4, rear wheel drive??

DannyW

DannyW

DannyW

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hi guys, are audi A4 1.9 tdi's rear wheel drive?

seen a few going cheap round here, <£6k, servicing and running should be cheap as chips considering that engine is in polo's ect??

saw a red saloon today with big wheels, fell in love strait away.

no bmw is better posts please


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They are FWD and you wont find a car like the one you've posted for anywhere near £6k. Thats an 04 A4 1.9 TDI 130 S Line. Try £12k.
 
however you will find 04 1.9tdi 130 sports for for not much more.
im going to look at an auto version early next week at under £10k
 
[TW]Fox;10461206 said:
They are FWD and you wont find a car like the one you've posted for anywhere near £6k. Thats an 04 A4 1.9 TDI 130 S Line. Try £12k.
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i wasnt planning on getting a 04 s-line, that was a pic off parkers, there are some 2002 high mile ones for around 6k, i could buy the big wheels after. i might go test drive one tomorrow, see how bad they are
 
do it :) they run forever Mrs Sormicoft is currently tooling around in a a4 avant and loves it to bits, My wallet also loves it to bits as nothing has broken or went wrong in 2 years and 40k miles god bless the germans :)

oh and fwd or quattro (40/60 torque split front/rear :)
 
i also have a small fleet of 1.9 tdi octavias used for taxiing unbeatable and cost bugger all to run just give em there scheduled servicing and keep a check on fluids as and when i see them :) again no major issues to report
 
yeh, i already knew them 1.9 tdi's are bullet proof, and tbh i wouldnt have any other diesel apart from the vag 1.9 tdi. (im gonna get some stick for saying that lol)
 
DannyW said:
yeh, i already knew them 1.9 tdi's are bullet proof, and tbh i wouldnt have any other diesel apart from the vag 1.9 tdi. (im gonna get some stick for saying that lol)
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you will be slated for saying that a VAG engine is more reliable than the same VAG engine in a different car ;]
 
I picked one up about a month ago, late 2002, 2.0 petrol, 40k miles, mint condition - 7k.

Put 19" wheels on it, received some controversy from the forums as expected but i love it and i couldn't have spent my money any better imo.



Thats a quick picture of it, not had time to take a decent one!

Getting lowered slightly and a focal sound system installed soon.
 
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sormicoft said:
oh and fwd or quattro (40/60 torque split front/rear :)
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I might be wrong but i don't thing the standard quattro cars are rear biased like that I think its only the performance variants i.e. the RS cars or R8. The rest are 50/50 bar the Haldex equiped cars.
 
Dandle said:
I might be wrong but i don't thing the standard quattro cars are rear biased like that I think its only the performance variants i.e. the RS cars or R8. The rest are 50/50 bar the Haldex equiped cars.
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All Quattro cars past the late 90s have a Haldex (earlier ones used a torsen system)I'm pretty sure the standard balance is 90% to the front and 10 % to the rear and only when traction is about to be lost does it shift more to the back hence why some people say its not real 4wd.

The RS4 is 40/60 sure the R8 is 30/70
 
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Dangerous Dave said:
All Quattro cars past the mid 90s have a Haldex I'm pretty sure the standard balance is 90% to the front and 10 % to the rear and only when traction is about to be lost does it shift more to the back hence why some people say its not real 4wd.
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Its not but thats been done to death on here in the past. Its front biased sure but a lot of power goes to the rear(without grip at the front being lost) although the max possible if all wheels have grip is 50% to the rear.
 
Dandle said:
Its not but thats been done to death on here in the past. Its front biased sure but a lot of power goes to the rear(without grip at the front being lost) although the max possible if all wheels have grip is 50% to the rear.
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I'm pretty sure most goes to the front most of the time on the standard haldex controller, I've breifly had the use of a Mk4 R32 and you could spin up the front wheels pretty easily for a short time hammering out of a junction with the front wheels turned before it passed more power to the rear. It then had a "performance" haldex controller fitted which split it more 50/50 all the time and the wheels wouldn't even chirp in the same circumstances.
 
Its constantly varying the power rearward with throttle and steering inputs although it is front biased. You can catch it out from a standing start as it requires the prop shaft to be turning to power the pump that closes the clutch to the rear wheels, then you will hear/feel the fronts spin a little before the rears are engaged. All the time its moving though there is a varying element of power going to the rear wheels, no sudden surge of power rearward like a lot of people believe. The mk1 haldex as fitted to the mk4 golf etc works exactly like the mk2 haldex but the mk2 to reacts slighlty quicker.

The Eagle F1s weve just removed from our A3 Quattro have covered about 8kish miles mainly with my wife driving gently and me ragging it a couple of times a week. The fronts are just slightly more than 6mm and the rears are just slightly less, not even .5mm in it. That kinda proves the rears are working just as hard as the fronts as the wear is nearly the same and the rears dont take any of the steering load and less of the braking.
 
I am sorry but I just don't think you can get an acceptable well looked after 01-05 shape A4 TDI for less than £6k. Your budget is not big enough for a nice one and you DO NOT want a cheapo BMW or Audi.

Instead, consider a petrol variant, or increase your budget.
 
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