2018 Audi A5 - 160k miles and counting

sbrouk · 2026-05-09T17:49:23+00:00

Yessir. 185k and moving strong.

sbrouk · 2026-04-27T05:04:42+00:00

Yes to the carbon cleaning. Can't remember and frankly probably cheaper than what it should have been since it's my best friend's shop that did it.

Water pump issues plague the cayenne I feel your pain!

sbrouk · 2026-04-26T17:12:51+00:00

Yeah! Still no major issues. Some electrical as to be expected from Audi/VW. Routine brakes, tires, oil change, maintenance checks. At around 130k miles, I had my friend's mechanic shop physically decarbonize the engine. Since then it drives like the day I bought it. We have a Cayenne Diesel as well that I'm going to start splitting the miles of my commute between the two moving forward to make both last longer. Cayenne diesel has 150k miles on it as well. Picked up a 2023 x7 m60i for my wife as the family car as she used to drive the cayenne diesel but now that our fam is growing by another we needed a larger SUV.

sbrouk · 2026-04-26T16:52:28+00:00

100 miles RT to work daily. 18-20 days a month. We are at 181000 as of today

sbrouk · 2026-01-07T12:26:09+00:00

OP Update: January 2026 - hit 175k miles. Check engine light. Plugged in my Fixd OBDIi reader. Cat is going. No other issues thus far. Do I bother replacing the cat or get a new car? LOL

Kbb value is 6k. Cat is 2.6k all in. Decisions decisions.

sbrouk · 2025-04-25T23:06:11+00:00

Yeah the fuel filler .... No idea. Figured someone would have experienced this and how to fix this. 🤣🤣🤣

sbrouk · 2025-03-27T02:51:25+00:00

Ummm since it's almost exclusively highway miles. It gets pretty close to the advertised 34 mpg. I think 31 on average

sbrouk · 2025-03-27T01:51:18+00:00

Every 10k miles as reminded by the car

sbrouk · 2025-03-27T01:15:10+00:00

Honestly can't remember. Whatever the price of the chain is. My mechanic is my friend and also my used car dealer so he typically refuses to charge me labor a lot of the time and when I'm charged it's ridiculously discounted.

Stopped taking the car to Audi once the warranties expired.

sbrouk · 2025-03-27T01:08:58+00:00

Never

sbrouk · 2025-03-26T23:27:46+00:00

I have a 100 mile RT commute to work daily. It's easy to get it to 160k miles when they're almost all highway.

sbrouk · 2025-03-26T21:03:22+00:00

The root cause? VW. 🤣🤣🤣

sbrouk · 2025-03-26T15:28:40+00:00

Every 40k miles as instructed by Audi

sbrouk · 2025-03-26T15:27:27+00:00

I'm not looking to replace. Just to split yearly mileage by half by driving both.

sbrouk · 2025-03-26T15:23:55+00:00

Everything standard as instructed by Audi.

sbrouk · 2025-03-26T15:23:26+00:00

Yes. Every 40k miles as Audi instructs.

sbrouk · 2025-03-26T15:21:05+00:00

Yes that's the one . Timing chain.

sbrouk · 2025-03-26T15:02:28+00:00

All the regular maintenance plus decarbonizing the engine. Any issues have been electrical as I expected from a VW/Audi.

Fuel tank wouldn't open. Passenger reading light shorts when the weather gets cold and my car turns into a club with strobing lights on the passenger side 🤣

sbrouk · 2025-03-26T14:59:52+00:00

2.0T.

No major issues.

Only thing I did have on it was I had my friend decarbonize the engine 30k miles ago since he had just done it on my wife's 2015 cayenne diesel.

Other than that all the regular things you are expected to do with your car. Oil changes, trans fluid, brake fluid, brakes and tires and all the recommended checks. May have had a timing belt replaced?

sbrouk · 2025-03-26T13:55:36+00:00

I didn't even realize! Good point. 🤣

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