S4 Death rattle

[DaveHughes]

Hi all.

I have a 2007 S4 B7 with 120k on her. The engine is still sweet. Oil and water still in all the rite places and the normal amount of oil leaks. She does have the normal Death rattle cold and with that the normal misfire and cam correlation fault codes.

I have bought an engine with 32k on it with Audi Ipswich provinance and paper work . This engine cost me £2500, My dilemma is , as I only want to do the engine in and out once ,  take my engine out, have the chains and tensioners done and sell the other engine on, or, put the new engine in with or without doing chains and tensioners?

Many thanks in advance for your time.

Dave

  

[DaveHughes]

Hi Jason.

Thank you for your reply.

Yes! I know its not easy to know how or if an engine has been abused but with such a lump I find it difficult to say it had? Surely if I fit the Donor engine as is and use the same spec oil (slightly heavier grade than standards) I should be ok?

Dave

 

[DaveHughes]

Im not sure? the Donor engine was out of a later A5 that was written off but don't know what year? it hasn't run for a year or so and just have the print out from Audi Ipswich with the mileage of the A5 it was taken out of?

Dave

[Magnet]

Hello Jason,

Apologies for asking you to explain your logic, but how do you deduce that a low mileage engine has been dormant for many years? 
Kind regards,

Gareth. 

[DaveHughes]

Thanks Jasonj, I,ll bare that all I'm mind👍

[Stevey Y]

3 hours ago, Magnet said:

Hello Jason,

Apologies for asking you to explain your logic, but how do you deduce that a low mileage engine has been dormant for many years? 
Kind regards,

Gareth. 

Hi Gareth, I doubt you will get an answer, this will disappear into cyberspace he obviously dislikes having to explain his statements or expanding on them, he unlike us mere mortals manages to see things in the posts we don't, shame we only see the obvious in the information supplied.

Steve.