A8 advice

[andydunn2]

Been toying with the idea of binning my company car (currently Honda Accord ES GT Tourer) due to HMRC raping and pillaging me for exorbitant amounts of tax.

I do mainly motorway miles between North Manchester and London but need a decent load carrier as we have 2 year old twins, for the times they are in my car so was thinking of a big old cruiser such as A8 or 7 series.

So my question is does anyone have any experience of the A8 3.0TDI around a 05/06 plate?

Ta in advance
Andy ..

[spink]

If you send a pm to 'simyboye' on s2forum,he will let you know how his has been.Same engine and year

[andydunn2]

Originally Posted by spink

If you send a pm to 'simyboye' on s2forum,he will let you know how his has been.Same engine and year

Cheers I will ping him a PM...

[slacky]

P.m Dave(20vcqdriver) has the A6 avant 3.0tdi q ,I drove it back from ADI ,
Great car ,rather swift

[andydunn2]

Originally Posted by slacky

P.m Dave(20vcqdriver) has the A6 avant 3.0tdi q ,I drove it back from ADI ,
Great car ,rather swift

Great, thanks Chris I will drop him a PM...

[Daveymaclad]

I too would be interested to hear about the D3 A8 diesels. Quite tempted by the 4.2tdi to replace my Octavia vRS (very different beasts I know!) but at less than £8k for a sub 100k 4.2 tdi I'm very tempted!

[andydunn2]

Originally Posted by Daveymaclad

I too would be interested to hear about the D3 A8 diesels. Quite tempted by the 4.2tdi to replace my Octavia vRS (very different beasts I know!) but at less than £8k for a sub 100k 4.2 tdi I'm very tempted!

That's what caught my eye, seems a lot of car for very little money. I know of expensive horror stories on the S8's but the 3.0 & 4.2 Diesels never seem to prompt tales of woe and huge garage bills.