Hey guys welcome to legit streetcar, so i'm about a thousand miles away from home on a farm in sunny florida, because i bought this an auction audi and many of you guys had mentioned in the comments section that i've had bmws. I've had mercedes and amg cars and then i should try out an audi, so i did - and you guys had specifically mentioned the s4, because it's a great sports sedan bargain. So i looked into this and i'd have to agree this car kind of reminds me of my 335i or, dare i say my e55s, because it's factory boosted, so it's very tunable being an audi. It has all-wheel drive, so it'll launch really well.

It could be a year-round daily driver and they're very inexpensive, even in today's crazy used car market. So i have bought a 2013. You audi guys will know. This is a b8 and a half, so the face lifted s4 and this car still looks modern even today.

So they did some updates to the exterior styling they updated the interior as well. It's got a lot of cool and modern features and i got it for a very good price at the auction. But, as you could probably imagine uh, i didn't go see this car. I bought it sight unseen.

Hence why i'm in florida, my buddy sam cracks farm - and it was at an auction around here and we had it delivered here in the middle of the field. So now i have the car and a few extra pets to bring home with me, and there are cows and chickens in the background that we're gon na hear throughout this video. This is much much different than filming in chicago, so a friend of mine bid and won this car for me because it was sold at a dealer. Only auction - and you can tell this - was sitting on a lot because it has some advertising on the window: navigation, cold, ac.

I love when some of the smaller dealers will even add in there power windows and door locks as if you can get a modern car without that stuff. But there's a good chance that this s4 sat at this chrysler and jeep dealer on the lot for a while, and then they decided to dump it at the auction for a measly ten thousand dollars. So this is a clean title: s4, with 128 000 miles. It looks to be in good cosmetic condition and it's totally stock and in today's market this should retail for somewhere around 17 to 18 000.

Now these dealer auctions do have to list some of the issues with the car, but, as you can imagine, they're pretty vague. So this one's primary issue is a check engine light which, as we know, could be anything from a bad gas cap to a bad engine. It was listed as a run and drive and it definitely starts right up and it does drive around at least this grassy field, pretty well actually, with the all-wheel drive um. But as you can see, it does have a check engine light and there will be a coolant warning that'll pop up every once in a while there it is there.

You probably saw it when i first started it up other than that it runs pretty. Well, i don't really see any issue with the way that it runs, but we have to figure out what the deal is with the check engine light and the coolant lights. I'm concerned about both, because if this thing overheats, we don't know if the dealership overheated the engine and damaged the head gaskets or something along those lines. This is an all aluminum engine, so i've already let it run for about 10 minutes.

I'm gon na keep going and just monitor this closely and see if this thing actually overheats. So while this supercharged three liter engine is warming up, we're gon na scan it for codes using the carly connected tool. And i carry this with me all the time, especially on trips like this, because it's a very powerful and portable diagnostic tool that simply plugs into your obd2 connector. Just like that, and then we're going to pick the type of car we're working on and it saves the last one you scanned and the codes, even if you've cleared them, which is nice, so we're going to add a car audi, s4 13 and we're going to Check for issues so right now it is scanning all of the control modules.

On the s4 65 percent. Five issues found not bad six, a hundred percent seven, not bad okay. So we have four in the engine. Let's just go for that and the first one and most important is the coolant pump mechanical malfunction.

Now i believe this has a mechanical water pump. It might have an electronic auxiliary pump, but typically engines won't overheat if the auxiliary pump is bad. So i wonder if this code is only set when it overheats next we have rail pressure. The other two are random misfires, but i'm more concerned about the overheating, the potential overheating issue.

It's been running now for about 15 minutes and we're still right in the middle. So the big question is: did the guy at the dealership overheat this thing while i was cruising on the highway, or was it pegged in the red for a long time it's an all-aluminum engine, so if they did that they could have damaged the head gaskets at The very least they could have warped the block or the heads as well. That's what i'm worried about and i'm hoping that they just saw a few warnings. They saw older audi and they just decided not even to mess with it and dump it at the auction.

Sometimes they do that sometimes they get a big repair estimate from a dealer. They get scared and just send it off. So i'm hoping for the first one and that's why these auction cars, even the nice dealer auctions, are a huge gamble. If this needs an engine or something major, it wasn't worth it.

Okay and just in the time it took me to say that we have passed the halfway point and from what i read on the forums, it's supposed to be right at that middle mark. Now the cows have surrounded me, and i don't know if it's because they sense something major with this engine, but we do have fans that are working. So that's a good sign. The coolant is at the maximum level, not the best sign.

It might have overheated spilled over and then they topped it up, but at least we have fans and the engine it looks pretty clean. It looks nice nothing's, taken apart, good sign as well being a guy from chicago. This is very weird. Normally it's like kids in the neighborhood that are watching me film out in the driveway or making a lot of noise for me, but yeah.

I have a few thousand pounds of cow eating grass. While i work on an audi, it's very strange what what? What dude? It's all good, it's fine! Is it overheating? I don't know i don't know, let's see, oh wow all right, maybe the cows know more than we think they're all coming by right now to see the devastation this guy's getting hot, i'm going to stop once it gets to that white line, because i know that's Not normal all right, that's getting high, i'm going to go ahead and call it that this engine would overheat if we allow it to so, let's shut it down and i'm going to restart it really quick, because i think it'll show the error as soon yeah there. We go coolant system faults, turn off engine, that's what it's showing us every once in a while, not a good sign all right, i've, let it cool off for a few minutes, i'm just going to drive it over to the barn, because that's where we're going to Work on it, we got to figure out what we're going to do and i kind of want to get away from these cows. Sorry guys - and here we go quattro all-wheel drive s4 with a potentially bad engine crossing.

My fingers, that's not the case driving on the sam crack farm, i don't even know where i'm going uh. We got to get it out of cowland and we got to get it over there, where a few other exotics and euro cars just kind of lie around broken. We have an abandoned green ferrari, we have a pizza car and here's the aston lots of stuff going on here definitely doesn't need another broken car. Hopefully this is minor open.

The hood alex i've seen this car i've been storing it here for months. Okay, i know what it's, but have you seen it? It's really nice. Look how clean it is. It's a clean engine, but you know what i always say when you buy a car at the auction and it's got a super clean engine.

It's got an engine problem. Well, it was at a dealer, they detailed the thing, so it could be helpful. It could be normal that that makes a lot of sense, and in this case you did the code scan you found. We found a coolant pump malfunction.

It's got a mechanical water pump that doesn't seem all wobbly and i believe it has the metal uh impeller. In there you know the germans, they like to call pumps this thermostats they like to call boots trunks. I mean you're wearing boots, that's that has nothing to do with cars, so they, when you have a code like this. In my opinion, the germans like to use certain words.

I personally think it's smart to go and attack the thermostat first, it's a known problem on this car and i didn't see any wobbling pulleys. But then again i didn't it looks good, so i actually ordered a thermostat set. We have to take the blower off to get to the thermostat. It's so crazy.

It's crazy! Of course. It's an audi, but that's already here, so i want to do a thermostat. I want to cross my fingers and hope that that's going to work, but you know what we got to do after this engine cools off the head gasket test. I got that from another car.

I just did it on my lightning and it failed. I'm hoping i'm not two for two here, but before we get into anything, if they overheated it severely, they could have popped the head gasket, it's overheating. We know that it's not blowing any smoke, so it's we haven't driven it enough to see if it's spewing out of the reservoir like the lightning. So i think that's next after it cools off because we'll burn ourselves.

I have the test the only time i've used that test alex. Unfortunately it did fail, but i have a little bit more confidence in this because i mean just looking at how clean it is. You know yeah, let's break it out, purple fluid it's going to stay purple, it's got to stay purple and we're going to be good. We can start prefer that we're going to do something fun.

We got to let this thing cool off. Anyway. Let me show you guys what we can do in the instrument cluster. On this thing we can code the car and unlock hidden features.

This is so so cool. Let me show you so carly's found three control units that we can code, which means there are literally dozens of features that you can unlock. So, let's read from the car and it's going to save a backup. So this is totally reversible.

Okay, so backup successful. And, let's see what we can do here, oh, this is what i was looking for: lap timer. So some of these audis have a factory lap timer and on this car it's turned off from the factory. So we're just going to go in here and turn it back on and then we just hit code car and here you go.

Carly is now coding that control unit. So you might get some noises from the cluster and things that pop up and that's successful. Look at that super quick, we're gon na turn, the ignition off okay and we'll turn it back on, and i'm just gon na run this for a few seconds just to show you guys. But where is it here? We go lap, timer cool and we're going to use the factory stock to control this.

This is just like an audi would have right from the factory. You can stop it, you can add different timers as well, and this would cost you hundreds of dollars. If you brought this to a shop with the factory audi software to have it coated, another feature, i know you guys will appreciate, is the used car check, and so this is going to check to see if the mileage has been tampered with and carly's detected at No tampering so it's found seven control units that all store mileage separately. They all match it's in kilometers, but that is the amount of kilometers.

If you do the math that this 2013 s4 has so everything checks out guys. This is an invaluable research. When you're doing your own pre-purchase inspection, the best part is you guys, can save 15 off of the carly connected car. If you click on my link in the video description box and use coupon code, legit streetcars, this is a limited time offer.

So if you guys have wanted one of these now would be a great time to buy so a big thanks to carly for continuing to support automotive content creators like myself now, let's test out these head gaskets, please cross your fingers for me. Let's hope, they're, okay and maybe just maybe we'll get away with a thermostat all right, so you guys just saw me do this on the lightning. So all we need to do is pour the magical blue fluid up until the line put this little guy. On top with the metal sticking up and at this point we're gon na let the engine warm up for about 10 minutes.

Okay, so the engine's been running for about 10 minutes. So now we're gon na pump the air through for about one minute and what we're doing is we're drawing in the gases from the coolant reservoir and if it is mixed with combustion gases due to a blown head gasket, this fluid will turn yellow all right. So i've been at this for about a minute and the fluid is still blue, so that is good and the lightning it turned yellow almost instantly. Okay.

So now that we know the head, gaskets are okay, i've cleared out the codes and i just want to see if the overheat one comes back immediately or not, so we shouldn't have anything right now and yeah. I think we're good, no overheating. So that's a good sign and the check engine light hasn't immediately, come back on. So that's good and i kind of figured the coolant malfunction wouldn't immediately come on because it's all mechanical, it's got a mechanical thermostat and a mechanical water pump.

It's not electronic which had it failed electronically. It could have set that immediately. So i believe that code is set when the coolant temperature goes out of spec too high. In this case, and sometimes when you have an open, thermostat you'll get a check engine light because it's not warming up as quickly and it's an emissions issue.

So it is very possible that it is starting to overheat due to a bad thermostat and in doing a little bit of research. That is the most common problem area in the cooling system. On some other audi models that share this engine. There was a technical service bulletin from audi to replace the thermostat first, so i'm hoping it's that it can also be the water pump down here, but it spins fine and that repair is completely unrelated to this one.

So, let's knock out this thermostat. Unfortunately, the supercharger and a bunch of stuff around it has to come out to get to that guy, but luckily we are well equipped at the sam crack compound here. I've literally taken apart ferrari engines with that tool. Kit alex that is the toolkit we'll be using to pull the supercharger off.

It's got everything you need and i got it on black friday. Ninety nine dollars. It was a good deal too. Ninety nine dollars yeah all right, so i'm not used to this, but uh.

We'll see how this works. Do you have any power tools? No, no. I do everything but by hand. Okay, so it's all hand built here at sam correctly.

I mean ferrari engine was hand built true, true, it's a better way. To put it back, i tried with my feet once it didn't work, so i've let this cool down for another couple of hours, because it's retaining a lot of heat here in florida, but we don't have any pressure in the cooling system so we're good to go. I'm not burning my hand, so let's do this. We're going to start off with this beauty cover right here, and this is an eaton supercharger cool.

We have another beauty cover right here and there is a lot of stuff going on. So i think i'm going to start off with this air intake. I think i've driven up on ramps like three times i i have lifts sam. I have lifts, listen man, not all of us are big time.

You know yeah in one day, so one of the issues with the 3 liter is that they rattle upon startup and in 2013, supposedly they fixed that. So there were bad tensioners in the rear and you'd replace the tensioners, and that would sort of fix it. But audi says if it rattles a cold start up from between one and three seconds: that's normal, so i didn't hear anything there, but then again it wasn't cold, but the 13 should have that problem fixed all right. So we have the s4 on ramps because we have to drain the coolant, so i'm going to go ahead and start disconnecting stuff, starting with this air intake tube, get this guy out of the way, all right, that's good enough! By the time we get the supercharger off, we should be empty, but i just want to show you guys the condition of this thing underneath so that's the oil pan.

I don't think someone changed out the little washer there, so it's got a little leak there, but everything is really dry outside of that which i don't think is an issue and this little seepage right there no big deal but other than that. It's looking pretty good. It's looking pretty good under here, and i got ta say this is a very tight engine. Hey sam, very tight.

You got ta like take the whole front, bumper off to work on really anything in the front. So if we need to do a water pump, it has to go into a service mode which is essentially loosening up the entire front. End i mean alex, i want to just jump right into and take these supercharger bolts off, but i know there's probably a million other things again yeah. It's tempting there's just like three on this side and three on that.

I think that might be it um, but yeah, that's not gon na just bring it up. I think you got these. What are you taking? We got these hoses on the side and then we've got lots of vacuum lines and there's these covers too. Let me get a trim panel removal tool now people on the video they're always going.

You need to introduce sage so sage, one day when i really need to get my video to eight and a half minutes i'll. Introduce you see, people don't give me enough. Credit alex look at how clean i just took that yeah, i just needed a flathead, screwdriver and sam's got a real trim panel removal tool. I have a lot of stuff like that, a lot of stuff, don't you? I don't have a lift.

I mean alex i'm looking at this thing. That's going to have to so the torque's over there. It doesn't look that hard. I think it pays like four and a half hours, which means it's a 30-minute job.

Yeah right, that's true, i mean not to like criticize. I know you uh. A lot of your life was spent at the dealer, which is cool. Our whole point was to beat book time so yeah.

If book time's three and a half, i bet you there's audi guys out there that can do this in an hour and a half all right, i'm taking this cowl out, not because i think i have to, but i am hearing some ruffling around here - there's got To be a frog or some kind of creature in here, that's about to jump out. I'm working on this thing and all i hear is there's a bunch of leaves in here. You guys are going to see a frog jump out at me in this video. I know it i wish i would just get it over with, though you know this isn't something you should have to worry about.

There's the rooster! All right alex it's out right! Supercharger is still there yeah. I know what have you been doing eating fries? Well, i was doing that like a few minutes ago. We really should get some help on this sam. You really need some tools.

This is out of it. This is out of a car, isn't it. This is out of a tool kit from some random yeah. That is, but that's not i have pliers alex.

I have lots of pliers. Look at this. I have a set of four snap ring pliers, wow. Okay, you want to talk about pliers.

I got pliers, okay, where they are. I couldn't tell you all right, so i'm hoping we can leave these pipes on the blower. These pliers are absolutely horrible. Ah, sam pliers, pliers pliers, i got pliers dude.

Okay got that one down. Okay, we should have enough coolant drained at this point, but we'll just do a complete coolant, flush anyway, okay! Well, i got that off. What do you got these? This? Is this no where's, the pliers i gave you earlier. Those were good, big ones.

I don't know. That's why i don't have any pliers, those weren't that good a pliers oh come on all right. Those are the best. I use those for everything all right.

I guess these aren't too bad. All right we'll make do guys we'll make do a thousand miles away from home. We got ta make it happen. Come on hoes! Don't fight me! Oh now, it's coming out quick! Oh, oh, oh wait! Is it yeah there we go coming out.

There awesome come on. Let's not make a mess all right, so i'm down below and i am moving the supercharger belt. Tensioner got it. You got it yeah, it's off, okay, okay, that's it! That's it and yeah! It's a 16 mil on the bottom, we're good to go alex! You were stressing over that be honest, you're, like bro.

It looked really hard, there's no room in here, and a lot of guys will put it in the service position, which is basically taking the whole front end and pulling it forward. I did this job before yeah he's a seasoned veteran here guys, so we should have this off in like two minutes, then right did you ever take your blower off, never took the blow off, but just these bolts on six of them i mean we're. It's really. It's not that hard, so we've disconnected pretty much everything we can see.

I think we still have a few more things to go there, but we're jumping ahead a little bit and just loosening up the supercharger bolts or nuts right they're nuts yeah yeah, i'm just going to pull some lines off of this guy yeah say this is uh. This is kind of nice. We had sage helping us out a little bit too. So there's a total of three of us working on this guy.

We had six. We had sage, you had to go, i'm ready to rip this thing off. I know i know we just got a couple couple connectors left here, sam and then we're good, i'm gon na rest, this up against an electrical connector, okay, yeah. That makes a lot of sense.

Oh, it is already moving yeah, it's moving yeah, it's moving, oh cool! They lift it out with this. That's awesome, yeah, it's nice, a long extension. They give you handles uh. I think we still have some stuff in the way.

Oh wait. No, we don't hold on get another extension. This is coming out all right here. We go.

Okay! Oh dude, it's right there, okay hold on hold on. We forgot a connector, okay got it got it yep dude. Are you serious on there's one more connection right here? This is so easy. This is the easiest.

Supercharger ever don't want to break anything, don't break it. You know i got to say these vacuum lines: don't mess around on these audi's. Should i just get one little pick and pick it out? Oh wait! No, we got another one underneath here. We can't forget about nice and we got one more and we can't forget that one on our way in, i think it's pretty hot, it's pretty hot here in florida i got ta say i don't know.

If i could deal with this humidity all year. Is it all, is it like this all year? No, it's beautiful, dude, the winter is like your most ideal thing. It lasts about two weeks, though the winter yeah mine's about six months, but you do have crime in your area. Yeah.

We do have crime. Yes, we do yep yeah, which is nice. You can do it, it's a really like again. If this has never been changed out, isn't it the mileage it's in really nice shape? I don't think it's ever been taken apart, he's sitting in a hot part of the engine like this come on.

Okay, it's all right, okay, got it hold on! Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh looks on my barn floor, my god. Oh man, i'm sure you've never never had anything else on the floor. It's a little bit cooler there we go. Okay, all right - and here it is, it looks pretty complicated.

It looks a little messy, but overall getting the supercharger off was very, very simple. I think it took us like 45 minutes and here buried under the blower is the thermostat. So i think there are six bolts that hold that in and of course we got our thermostat from fcp euro, so they sell an entire kit. So you get the thermostat.

You get this little pipe that goes in the bottom of the supercharger, with new o-rings, you get the supercharger seals and a few more seals there and, of course, your coolant and it's covered under their lifetime parts replacement, guarantee so fcp euro. If you need any european car parts and with that, i think at this point we're just going to move some stuff out of the way i'll get this big, huge plastic tube out and uh yeah. Hopefully not too much else has to come out like this guy, because because that rooster might not be happy about it all right, so i moved some stuff out of the way and let's remove some t30s all right. So, of course, there's one bolt that we can't get to this is a hard pipe, so we can't really manipulate it too much.

No, we can't get to it this set. I love these man. This is uh. I use them all the time, especially in these european cars, when there's tight, fitting places.

So it's an allen key with a torx head on the end. Did you find that in the in the field alex, i use my tools in all situations, including the elements it gets right to it on both sides? So look at that look at that. I mean look. Chicken farming has taught you well, sam, listen, you don't think.

I have tools, i have the best tools. Apparently, apparently, that's a little bit of rust can come off. You know, but it's patina, it's it's tool, patina wow, no problem, good job guys give this video a thumbs up because of sam's ingenuity. With these tools, four likes - and i will um alex - will buy everybody a set of these in the comment section.

This is a hard pipe and it does go into this. I'm really hoping we can finagle. I don't know if that's a word that everybody uses. Do you guys use finagle here? Okay, okay, i don't know if that was like a chicago thing, because i don't want to have to loosen up this pipe i might have to.

I didn't think we're going to need this so soon, but yeah this pipe's not moving, and i found that there's just a t25. Basically underneath it, i got it. This tool is amazing dude. Actually, i actually think i have these in my new tool set.

I really do know, i think i do they're not as rusted at all, but we'll see mine have that rust. That makes it get into the crevices. Ah yeah mine have, i think, rubber grips they're really nice. I don't want to hear about those alex.

You haven't used yours as much as i've used mine i've. Never i haven't used them yet sam, but now that i like kind of know about them and their capabilities, amazing, and i'm glad i didn't go nuts on this coolant pipe. I got ta say because i probably could have broke it got it now, getting it back, how's that gon na it's gon na, it's not gon na be fun. So i ended up having to remove the two bolts on the passenger side for this tube and i think i barely got it out of the way to remove the thermostat and there it is.

I hope this is all that's bad. All right now we're going to get this guy new seal all right now, it's time for the new thermostat. This should go in pretty pain-free there. We go go ahead and start some of these bolts up right now and then we'll put the pipe in definitely going to tighten this one before we install the pipe all right.

This is a nightmare, but i got this guy to push in and we left the thermostat bolts loose. So we could just pull it up a little bit, so that is nice and snug. And now, let's tighten up some bolts and we're gon na need. The sam specialty tool here - and this is a plastic housing - so be very gentle, don't over torque these you can snap the plastic a little bit goes a long way here, just like that.

The thermostat's done it's about a thousand degrees out here, i'm pretty gross right. Now, but i'm really happy that, after about two hours, we have a new thermostat in so now i have to get the four bolts back into the tubes, which i can't show you anything it's just buried in there. Sorry, i'm gross right now, um and then the blower's going back on so not a bad job overall, but i think the three and a half hours for our first timer is probably about right with cleaning and bleeding coolant and all of that good stuff. So anyway, let me zip this pipe in all right.

Everything is back together, it's time to replace the blower seals and that's just a matter of picking out the old ones, and then we just installed the new one. If you have any crud in here, you can clean it out. Okay, so then we'll just repeat that five more times and the blower is ready to go on all right now. We're gon na just swap out this pipe at the bottom of the blower and just slide this new one in like that good there i got it all right here.

We go lower, going back on, wait, wait, wait and finger; yep got it! Okay, there! That was the coin pipe just snapped in she's down. Okay, let's start her up all right, so good deal. Putting the supercharger on is very, very simple, really if it wasn't for that front, coolant pipe. This would be an hour and a half job, but we're in pretty good shape here with this supercharger, i'm gon na torque these nuts down twerk torque torque.

What did i say, twerk we're gon na torque them down yeah. That's not what i said. That'd be an interesting video that would be all right. This hose plugged in place alex i've almost got it done there.

Boom boom push this down. I can't believe how much we're using this little guy right here. This has been the savior the tool you don't have that i do i do. I do have this tool, you don't have that tool.

I bet you don't i do it's a sonic tool. I got the whole set, they just don't have any rust on them. Yet, click click. Click, click.

Oh, she didn't leave any work for me to do. Click click click. You know what why don't you uh hook up the vacuum bleeder, so we can easily get coolant in this thing. Do you have one? I do have one? Okay, that's done now: let's get our little factory air intake, delay on here and i've already plugged in about a dozen vacuum tubes and connectors and whatnot.

So that's good. All right last clamp to tighten up that frog. It never jumped out at me. I think i'm gon na end up - i don't know where it is bunch of leaves we'll have to vacuum these out.

So i'll leave the cowl off for now. Let's fire this up a storm's, a brewing guys, but we're getting this s4 done. I just got the blower belt on and we're ready to put this cooling system into a vacuum all right, so we're putting this into a vacuum. Right now probably get to about 25., all right, so let it hold there now alex.

I like to do something before i just go and flip this, which is going to suck the coolant out of the bucket down below i like to actually turn the vacuum back on a little bit, because, if you think about it, there's air in this line the Whole purpose of this is to get rid of any air, so i'm going to turn on a little bit and then i'll also turn this one. Oh you see the coolant all right now we can shut that one and just go straight for the coolant. So i'm gon na do this and i'm going to monitor the bucket too all right. So we're going in right now with coolant and it's hard to tell right now, but it is flowing in there and you can see here that the vacuum is going down.

Which means we're filling the system and soon hoses like this, will fill up with coolant and we won't have any air in the system. The reservoir is getting full, i'm starting to feel this flowing too, all right, so we'll top this up, and we should be good. We shouldn't have any air pockets at this point, which is gon na save us a lot of time, all right, guys, it's getting late, i'm pretty gross, but we're ready for the first start. The thermostat job is done and we're gon na drive it around and hope that it doesn't overheat.

So with that it runs good, it runs good and that was you know, kind of a cold start. It's been off for about five hours and i didn't hear any of the timing chain slap in the rear, which means that the tensioners are probably in good shape. It's a 13. They supposedly fixed that.

So you know you never know. 128 000 miles. It's an audi. It's an audi um all right: let's go for a ride all right.

I've had it running for about 15 minutes and we do have the check engine light back on and the gauge is right in the middle, the heat is working. Well, all the air is bled out of the system and the check engine light is some kind of fuel pressure issue that says direct injection, but uh we'll see if that affects the way it runs and drives so far, it seems to rev up nicely. It runs beautifully all right guys. It is actually the next day i've cleaned myself up a bit.

We had a major rainstorm last night so and then it was getting dark. So not a good time to film. But i did let the car run and we did drive it last night and it didn't overheat, which is good. But i want to give it a little bit more of an extensive test, so i just fired this thing up.

It's warming up right now, so we're not quite at that halfway point yet um, but last night was a good sign. We had the ac on, and everything and the car drives beautifully. It's really tight the steering it feels like a brand new car, no squeaks or rattles, i'm really liking the steering wheel. The whole interior layout is nice on this update, and it just seems like this was someone's normal everyday car.

It wasn't modded, like you see, a lot of these s4s are all kind of hacked up, and people are running wires for speakers and aftermarket stuff all over the place. This thing was just some normal person's car. He drove it to work and he just enjoyed it for what it is so yeah, i'm hoping that this test drive will prove that it doesn't overheat uh i got to get on it a few times we're going to drive it around for quite some time to Verify that the issue is fixed and yeah, we might have gotten away with it just being a thermostat all right. It runs well, i'm not saying it's the fastest car in the world.

It definitely needs some mods. Maybe that's why all these things are modded. It shifts pretty quick, the transmission is smooth, it's got good acceleration. We've gone three miles now today and it hasn't overheated.

I think we did like five miles yesterday without any issues and before just idling, it would be getting up there uh towards the red. I don't know s4 guys is that all they have stock. I don't know sam. I think that it's more refined than say like a bmw, so it definitely doesn't feel as fast.

It does not. It does not feel that fast and so, but i can tell you right now: dual pulley and air intake and then the exhaust. Of course you open that up and it makes all the right noises right and it makes it way way faster. But if you launch this stock it actually launches pretty hard, and because this is the uh face lifted version.

Can i program a two-step or a launch control or something like yeah right into the factory computer? The b8 and a half integrated engineering has a software that you can actually do two-step, with with no extra modules or anything to just literally tune it into the ecu of the car. Let's see really quick, where is traction button? It's this right here. Did it go off yeah, it says it says off, okay and then put it. Is it in sport mode? No, no! You want it in sport.

Oh there we go. Okay, put your foot on the brake hard and then put your foot all the way down. On the gas, oh no way, yeah dude, oh, we got a steering fault there. You go okay, no you're right! This isn't bad audi come on.

We were doing so well, it was a good launch and now there's something wrong with the steering. Does it feel the same? It feels the same. Okay, then there's nothing wrong, there's nothing wrong with it all right, i'll, take it if it feels the same, and it runs well. Okay, that was pretty cool, that's factory too yeah wow.

So then we can so then we can add in the two-step to that basically yeah, okay, you got to put a pulley at least an upper pulley on it. Okay, but that's the thing so you add like say: another 150 crank horsepower so maybe 80 90 to the wheels and add into that a two-step launch, control and a dsg transmission tune. So you can raise the rev on that launch and you're going pretty quick. You know i'm being a little harsh on this car too, because it still does have the check engine light.

Something with the fuel pressure. Um direct injection could be a bad pump, could be a sensor. Who knows, i don't know if it's affecting performance it very well. Could be this thing could be a little bit quicker uh than what i'm experiencing right now.

So i'm sorry audi if i was being a little rough on you there, but i don't know just felt it felt like it was lacking. But now with that with that whole launch control thing, this is nice and you know steering faults or no strain fault. This thing steers really really well, so we haven't overheated yet and we've gone 5.1 miles and yeah i mean we drove about this yesterday. I think we're good on the overheating frontier.

We would have seen a warning by now. That's the rooster that always attacks sam. Let's see hey little guy, hey, it's not attacking me. I can't believe i'm getting this close hit that like button for the rooster, that's not trying to kill me right now, and here is the code for the steering light, not exactly sure what this means.

At this point, but i think i'm just going to clear it out and we'll just keep on driving it. I have a few more days here in florida. I will see if it comes back, but it seemed to only come on when i did that launch. So i guess i'll have to do some more launches alex.

What are you doing? Man? Are you going home or what well i wanted to drive this back, but it's got the code for the fuel pressure thing and now the steering wheel issue or whatever that steering issue is so uh, it's 75 to fly back to chicago, which i think may be The best route, it's actually a pretty good deal yeah. I don't know if this will make it, but the shipping up yeah wow the shipping's expensive, but i don't want to break down and then have to get it shipped anyway. We know it doesn't overheat, so i don't know i'll drive it around for a few more days in florida, see how i like this car and see how it does and then i'll i'll make that call so follow me on instagram and facebook i'll update you guys On you know, if i drove it back or if i flew home but he's gon na fly home, he told me in private that he's missed a few days of his hair loss treatment. That is not true.

I brought some. Oh, it's still looking good all right. No, it looks it looks honestly. I i commented a million times on how good it looks all right with that guys.

Let me know what you think of the audi in the comments section. I really do not know what i'm gon na do with this car uh. Now that it doesn't overheat, i could probably flip it make some money or i don't know, i don't know what we're gon na do. Let's see if i like it same fit yeah.

No, you don't flip anything. I know i usually go down in value and then you exactly sell it for a little. I do have a lot of projects going on right now, so you know i don't know if i'm going to get to this anytime soon anyway, oh come on all right, and so that with that with that, you guys got to. Let him know: do you want to see the v6 supercharged audi? I think uh i mean i really like mine.

I think you like this one. This one fixed will be better than mine. We just have to have our fingers crossed. It's not that big of an issue right exactly so i don't know i got to get back to the v12.

I know you guys already commented about that. I don't want it to turn in what about what an unfinished project yeah your v12. It's not you just mentioned it. It runs all right.

I just got to put it back together. It runs too. I just drove it out of the barn to move it. Yeah well you're further, along than i am so it runs good too anyway, if you guys, like this video, give it a big thumbs up share the video subscribe.

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