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Anything out of warranty and Germanic is worth an inspection either by yourself if you know what your looking for, or someone else who knows what they are doing.
Mate just spent £30k on a 4 year old A6 only to find the sat nav doesn't actually work (part of the system is physically missing) and had a bunch of error codes reset before each time he viewed the car, only to obviously come back on when he was down the road. Because he's a fool he's keeping the car and getting repairs done to fix the codes, but the dealer (not audi) won't pay for the missing sat nav hardware. Looks like previous owner took it out, or was taken during auction/fleet disposal.
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On (short) reflection I think this might be the answer. It looks close to what I want, but it's too far away to see it first, and even if I did go and see it I'd still want it inspected.
It's 4wd, but torsen I think and tiptronic rather than than S-tronic. I would very likely buy it if I could get it inspected without incuring risk. I'll maybe give a call on Monday and if he isn't willing to do a little work for the sale then I'll probably move on.
Thanks, that's valuable for setting my expectations. In that case I need to be looking at dealers that are closer to me. I'm not sure how much a dealer warranty is worth on a 15 year old car anyway, but it's worth even less if the place is hours away.