A6 Avant 2.5TDi (140bhp) - how many miles are they good for?

Well not specifically the Avant, but how many miles have these been known to
go on for? A lot of the ones I've seen have 150k++ miles on the clock and
if I was to buy one I'd want to really look after it and run it up to some
stupidly high interstellar mileage (I'd quite like to keep it forever, but
at the very least get it up to at least 500k!!) - just wanted to know are
they good for this sort of mileage if well looked after?

Peter

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 19:17:28 +0100, AstraVanMan <Peter (AT) SwerveWeb (DOT) com>
wrote:

Well not specifically the Avant, but how many miles have these been known
to
go on for? A lot of the ones I've seen have 150k++ miles on the clock
and
if I was to buy one I'd want to really look after it and run it up to
some
stupidly high interstellar mileage (I'd quite like to keep it forever,
but
at the very least get it up to at least 500k!!) - just wanted to know are
they good for this sort of mileage if well looked after?

Peter

Make sure it's had a new cylinder head.

Well not specifically the Avant, but how many miles have these been
known to
go on for? A lot of the ones I've seen have 150k++ miles on the clock
and
if I was to buy one I'd want to really look after it and run it up to
some
stupidly high interstellar mileage (I'd quite like to keep it forever,
but
at the very least get it up to at least 500k!!) - just wanted to know
are
they good for this sort of mileage if well looked after?

Make sure it's had a new cylinder head.

Why's that exactly? Is the cooling system not particularly reliable? Is it
a design problem causing them to warp / head gasket to fail? I'd be
interested in hearing your reasoning behind this. I'm glad you've mentioned
this as I don't want to have any huge unneccessary bills, but I always
thought that if a car had a decent cooling system and was regularly serviced
etc., then there would be very little reason for a head gasket to blow. I
may be wrong of course.

Peter