things to consider when buying a rs7

[mfayson23]

I am looking to purchase a Audi RS7. I sign up to this forum for this reason. I have many questions as I am not verse in Audi and there cars.

I notice there is a body difference from 14, 15 and 16, 17. also there are performance and prestige.

To make it easy would anyone know off hand the pros and cons??

I also see some older models with less miles and newer ones with more.

How would you look at this? Is it better to have less miles on the older car or newer with more miles??

Any feed back would be nice. I have had a chance to drive this car and love it and the body. This would work perfect for the family fun car I'm looking for.

Thanks for any feedback

[Valpo A7]

Read up on the 4.0L turbo failures as well as PCV problems.

[Logtec]

I am looking to purchase a Audi RS7. I sign up to this forum for this reason. I have many questions as I am not verse in Audi and there cars.

I notice there is a body difference from 14, 15 and 16, 17. also there are performance and prestige.

To make it easy would anyone know off hand the pros and cons??

I also see some older models with less miles and newer ones with more.

How would you look at this? Is it better to have less miles on the older car or newer with more miles??

Any feed back would be nice. I have had a chance to drive this car and love it and the body. This would work perfect for the family fun car I'm looking for.

Thanks for any feedback

Your turbo will fail around 100k, all of my friends S7 and RS7 turbos have fail after 100k. One friend took the faultier turbo to the turbo specialist and the guy said components are just terrible, they have the same material as the 100 kw cars.

[Riker]

Your turbo will fail around 100k, all of my friends S7 and RS7 turbos have fail after 100k. One friend took the faultier turbo to the turbo specialist and the guy said components are just terrible, they have the same material as the 100 kw cars.

That's odd, RS7 is billet vs the S7's cast. I imagine that RS7 turbos are a better fit overall, but I'm not surprised by that turbo specialist's assessment. It seems these turbos are weak sauce for this type of car.

[zabds319]

2016 and later is "facelift", 15 and earlier is "pre-facelift." Facelift cars are referred to as C7.5 (as the generation is otherwise C7). Read about turbo failures; the most recent screen to hopefully mitigate the problem was early 2018 models I think. Therefore later model year is better in that regard.

Performance gets you an extra 50-ish horsepower at baseline. A tuned prestige and performance will give you the same power once tuned however. A performance also has different suspension versus the prestige which has air suspension. Performance has carbon ceramic brakes that last 100,000 miles plus, but will cost you $30k to replace when they fail. They are also massive calipers/rotors and many 20" wheels will not fit. Prestige has standard brakes but there are reports of failure around 20,000 miles or sooner and cost $5000 or so to replace; they are smaller calipers/rotors and no issues with 20" wheels.