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Thanks :). I’ll see whether my budget will stretch to a Petrol variant 🙂

Thanks - I’m more interested in the common faults (such as coolant control valve leaking). I don’t go a lot of miles per week (about 30-40 a week maybe) so I’m suspecting that would destroy a diesel unless I gutted the DPF?

I’m in the same boat and interested to know more about these cars and any issues. I’m looking between 80k-160k miles. I know the gearbox service needs to be every 30k

Hello all, Apologies if this is in the wrong section but I’m contemplating trading up from a 2015 Mini Cooper S, to an Audi A7 3.0 TDI and have never owned an Audi before so have no idea on reliability etc. From what I can gather online, they don’t suffer from the exact same issues as comparative to the A6 (but are still the B8/B8.5 engines around 2010-2014?). I could be wrong on that and just trying to get an idea of what I would be buying into. My budget would be something like £11-12k (finance) and I tend to service yearly and never let any issues go unsourced). Would anyone be willing to give me some guidance on what to look for, what problems are known and whether running costs would be feasible with this type of car? Thanks in advance :)