DEVASTATED Audi S6 5.2L V10 Engine Teardown. YOU CAN'T POWER THROUGH THAT! But Yet Here We Are.

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  @Slowcarfastbeans · 3 years ago (edited)

  This is comedically accurate if you’ve ever worked on any of their 2000’s V8, V10 engines.  Nothing disassembled easily and is even harder to re-assemble because you’ve forgotten where and how components go back together after it took you a week to disassemble it, a month for parts to arrive, and then a week in meditation to motivate yourself to work on it again.

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• HE

  @Heisenberg_GTA · 3 years ago

  Man, the complexity of these engines is just nuts. No wonder repairs cost a lot.

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• BR

  @brianl8983 · 3 years ago

  The valve train explosion was just what I needed today. It was right out of my play book. Well played.

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• CH

  @chmikr · 3 years ago

  I love the constant "oh no", "that's not good", "that's not supposed to go there" 😂

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• ME

  @meteordan · 3 years ago

  I'm more appalled at the design of the engine than I am at the damage done to it

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• TI

  @timtimtimmay79 · 3 years ago

  Damn that timing system looks like a steampunk convention.

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• RU

  @runningawayvagabond5876 · 3 years ago

  I sold VW/Audi&apos;s when these came out. &nbsp;First, what an amazing engine when you give it some right pedal! &nbsp;Second, what a maintenance and service nightmare. &nbsp;You most definitely do not want to service this thing out of warranty.<br><br>What I always was amazed at is when it came to relatively expensive vehicles like this, how hard it was to get people to service/maintain them. &nbsp;Even with free maintenance we had to call and hound owners to bring their vehicles in. &nbsp;Audi had (I can&apos;t remember exactly now since it&apos;s been many years) either 15,000km or 20,000km oil change intervals, in North America where people do not check their oil ever. &nbsp;On a high output performance engine. &nbsp;Ummm, yeah.<br><br>You are correct, almost everything WAS engine out. &nbsp;The service department had motor trays/jigs for lack of a better term - tech would put the car up on the lift, raise engine tray/jig to engine and/or transmission and disconnect everything and just lower it down. &nbsp;They could do it pretty quick on all models since engine out was the norm for most things. &nbsp;Was common to go into the Audi shop of 6 bays and see 4 vehicles engine out. &nbsp;Crazy.<br><br>And that uber complicated timing system with the A/C running off of it. &nbsp;Just imagine the shock to the system every time that cycled on. &nbsp;<br><br>The noise this thing must have made as it blew up surely echo&apos;d off buildings for blocks.<br><br>So, what did I learn after working for Audi/VW for years? &nbsp;Never ever own one of these things out of warranty.

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• MM

  @mmi.mmxxvi · 3 years ago

  It&apos;s so weird. I work at Audi and nobody ever mentioned anything to me about the BXA. Water-cooled alternator? That is definitely a FIRST for me. You are teaching me things, and I love every bit of it, good or bad.

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• TH

  @TheSleepyMechanic0524 · 1 year ago

  The hammer escalation was hilarious.

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• DA

  @darknes7800 · 2 years ago

  Someone on a SRT forum tried to convince me that Audi engines are very simple and easy to work on. <br>I almost died laughing so hard !

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• TO

  @toobalicious · 3 years ago

  Poured myself a LARGE, boozy eggnog drink to celebrate the holidays, lit a fire, and settled in for 57+ minutes of the most entertaining thing on the web - you did not disappoint. &nbsp;Thank you!

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• ZA

  @zacharyreichert5035 · 3 years ago

  That rube-goldberg timing system was hilarious.

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