[beach109]

For some time now, someone local has had their very well kept Pearl White/Black '97 Audi A8 Quattro listed for sale, with considerable recent work, and 183k miles. The price has gone down, and it disappeared for a while, but is back up (not hard to understand...full-size V8 luxury cars aren't exactly the heart of the market anymore, especially used). It's listed at $5000 OBO.

I know of the usual VW idiosyncrasies, and have read of the typical things on A8's such as the transmission and a couple electronic toys dying...but, also, that they seem quite respectable overall in terms of reliability. Shouldn't expect it to be cheap domestic in terms of maintenance either, but again, apparently not terrible.


I've just been SO attracted to these beasts for years, especially now with the used prices...and just tired of my current, also older, daily driver.


How attracted or not, would you be to a '97 A8 Quattro with 183k that visually looks like a 50k car, has a stack of maintenance receipts (including complete trans rebuild a little over a year ago, complete front & rear brakes, new tires, new tie-rods, flushed coolant, new alternator, new plugs, battery, etc.)?


Is the mileage at 183k too scary for this car, despite obvious maintenance and care? Just too many possible problems (that I just haven't seen)?


My dinosaur of a Cadillac I drive now was a commonly fleeted/limo, etc. vehicle and I know many people that have them with 300,400,500k miles and still original engines, etc., so that doesn't worry me too much. Well, except for an A8...known to go 100k's and still be fine? From the looks of this one, it certainly seems as so.


Just trying to either slap myself and say forgot it...or go over and look at & drive the beauty.