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Still looking for a good one mate

I'm glad you said that as that's what I thought. I was starting to think it was a characteristic of the engine. Does this happen thru poor maintenance and lack of oil changes or just age? It's starting to put me off the car at the moment.

I know, needless to say I didn't buy it.

Is this noise normal or is it the chain. It's the second one I've looked at with this same noise both around 50k miles. To me it sounds like the chain but not sure if it's normal.

Don't wish to let the cat out of the bag yet, but I've found one I may well be buying this weekend. Low miles, fsh and one owner from new. I shall report back if I get it and will upload some pics etc. Thanks everyone for your help... Looking forward to Quattro ownership :)

Cheers for the link, James. Looks good but it's about 200 miles away from me so not ideal. I've been looking at the 2.0 TFSI now to widen my options. Test drove a 2005 Quattro model today which was very nice. Not got the same sound as the V6 but still quick. What is this like to service and maintain, any known problems? It's had the timing belt done at Audi in 2013. It's now at 45k miles but it's nearly 7k and they wouldn't budge on price. Seems alot of money for a ten year old car IMO, what you think?

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201508296459658 It was this one, but it's got a rattling timing chain so I walked away. The guy played dumb like he didn't know but it was pretty obvious on the left bank, or right side as you look from the front

Looks nice but I'm after an A3 with the 3.2 engine. I'm going looking at it this weekend so may be back with some more questions when I've had a look at it.

Thanks for that. I just don't want to take on a money pit and find the dsg failing or the chain rattling. What's the limited Quattro sport model?

Hi everyone... I'm looking at a 2004 A3 3.2 V6 DSG Quattro this weekend with relatively low miles (around 60k). Are these engines on a timing chain and am I right in saying it's the tensioner that causes problems and not the chain. Do they make a noise when cold if there's a problem? Also what's the DSG box like, is it reliable? Any other help for when I go to look at it would be great, and info on likely service costs etc. Thanks