They’re very rare, but they did ship some from the factory with a manual transmission. I honestly wouldn’t have bought it if it was a Tiptronic.

Thanks man! I agree, I don’t blame the guy at all for negotiating for so long. I mean the tires were brand new and had to be at least $700 in themselves.

That’s a good point. I might test out how much the aluminum rails can handle and see if I could. That would make this a truly awesome camping machine!

Thanks man!

I read through that twice! Really wish he hadn’t abandoned the project. It had so much potential!

With the big tires and what I intend to do with it, there just isn’t any point in going for big power. It’s plenty quick with the stage 1 tune for now, and I would like to keep at least some semblance of reliability (you know, as far as Allroads go).

They come with the same 2.0T VW uses in just about everything right now, so I think those engines are pretty well sorted out by now. Also, no air suspension to contend with.

For offroading? You’re even crazier than me!

There are coilover conversion kits available, they just sit at normal suspension level 2 or below. Somewhere down the line there will probably be some custom suspension work in my future.

There are coilover conversion kits available, but all of them are built to lower the car, and none even make it to stock level 4 height.

Crazy, right? The guy was having a hard time selling it, had it up on the Audi forums for a while and couldn’t get rid of it somehow. I lucked out for sure.

Hahaha! Thanks man

Haha nice! You’re fitting right in, buddy!

Except if I did an LS swap, everyone would be complaining that it was just another LS swap! Haha

No issues with carb, everything is stock equivalent.

I’ve though about it, I just am not sure if the stock roof rails can handle the weight. They’re listed from Audi as only being rated for 160lbs, and the average RTT weighs around 100lbs by themselves.

A few reasons:

Really? I wonder if you just got a bad one. I’ve had one on my keys for 5-6 years now and it never felt sharp like that, even in the beginning.

Really? I wonder if you just got a bad one. I’ve had one on my keys for 5-6 years now and it never felt sharp like…

What I’m saying is that the quality of the data gathered and shown has absolutely nothing to do with how fancy the graphics used are.

Not sure if their graphic design skills are really relevant.