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Thanks Gareth, sometimes it’s nice to have a bit of reassurance. It’s a fantastic car, and I enjoy driving it.It’s definitely the best car I’ve had so far.

Hello Paul, I think it’s clear that the message is to not worry about it, but just enjoy it. The depreciation due to mileage will be far less than the ‘cost to change’. As the others have indicated, maintenance is king, mileage isn’t. Just an additional pointer. Our local executive hire operator covers in excess of 70K miles per year in each of their cars, and guess what, queuing buyers are generally associated with the drivers - who know the cars have had a quiet life, with the mileage being covered at optimum operating conditions. Kind regards, Gareth.

dont worry 90k now 3 of my avants nerly 300k each still sound

Hi Paul, having wracked up 870,000 miles between three of my last cabs [Fords] I can honestly say that there are a lot of people out there that actually know what they are looking at, I actually got a good return on all three of my cars despite starship milage purly because I had replaced all the appropriate parts on them, clutch, timing belt, EGR valves and sensors at their due times and had the bills for those parts as I fitted most of them myself which took a lot of garage labour out of the equation, a sort of potted personal service history. When I was researching the A6 as a cab I had looked at a few of them with 100,000 plus miles on them and nearly bought one of them but when I got there to view the car it was an automatic not a manual as advertised so I had to decline as where I live is lots of hills which tend to kill auto boxes in short order when the car is used as a cab, the main niggles for any potential buyer are switches that don't work, dash lights that stay on, and most of all tatty or badly worn trim/paint work. Your car is still a baby in the world of informed diesel owners, my car is close to 90k and I have no intention of getting rid as I have another four years licence life and possibly another 200k to do before its decommissioning, and I will bet someone will still want it. Regards Steve.