Farewell to my RS4.

[AvusPdx]

Here is a video I made as a tribute for my RS4. Some people say I am being overly dramatic, its just a car, who cares, but this car felt pretty special to me. I've met many friends through this platform, and I couldn't make it to the track/drag strip with this car but had a lot of fun with it.



Good luck with everyone else's builds, and I will be lurking on this side of the forum now and then, to check on the TT builds (lol) and see what happened to that dip shit.

Thanks to everyone that gave me advice and info early on, and of course all the DIY'ers that has posted here in the past.

May Rennsport be with you always,

Kohei

[WinterRunner]

I truly know the feeling. I went through that exactly, 5 days ago. what you getting into?

[Seattle squash]

If you don't mind me asking, why are parting with it?

[ginch]

Miss mine too. Wish I could keep most all the cars I sell but this one was extra special! What are you replacing it with?

[FWP!]

Sold mine a few days ago, got shipped to the new owner outside of Boston and should be there on Wednesday. Was a tough decision!

[AvusPdx]

I'm going with a B8.5 S4 with 19k miles on the clock, Ice Silver (bleh), APR stage 2 tune/Pulley/Stage 2 CF intake, okay VMR wheels and H&R sport springs. It has the basics that I would of done anyways.

The reason is that I didn't want to DD the RS4, and noticed many owners had theirs as their second car/weekend car. I have limited parking space in my condo, and I need a car that I don't feel bad putting miles on and throwing shit in the car. The RS4 felt too special for that, and with my low mileage, I hated putting miles on her. Also the back seat was smaller than the B8 and the baby seat is a very tight fit, causing the front seats to go all the way forward and still rub a little bit (baby Recaro's).

The car is in pristine shape, especially the paint and my preventative maintenance care I have done. I like to think my mods were tastefully done and not over the top, which my philosophy is clean and aggressive, coming from my JDM back ground. And I'm a CF whore as well. My plan was to track this car and done all the fluids, and have a extra pair of BNIB hawk pads. I needed to tweak a few more things before I was going to take her, and a good S4 popped near by, from a private seller. I wasn't sure if my car was going to sell, but I had overwhelming interest on it, and sold fairly quickly than I expected. I was planning on a last cruise with my local RS4 guys in August, but that is not going to happen now.

Like my previous BRZ, it seems like I do have that "build the car up and sell" bad habit. I'm not sure why.




I'm looking forward to building my S4, and hopefully not going fucking nuts again and end up selling it for something else. I really hope I can keep this car for a long time as my grocery getter, until I decide to buy a house with a garage, then I can have my second toy car.

I would have to admit that my BRZ was more fun to drive and engaging, but the RS4 had a better quality build feel with rawness, which is pretty impossible to find now days.

[dufferdude]

Thanks for sharing your story.
I sold mine to a great guy locally, but i missed it a lot. Got my house situation done and i started looking for another RS4. I was able to buy mine back from him after 9 months and only 3k miles. Yea, about the same price too. Would i do it again? Hell yes.

[Seattle squash]

Sounds like you have your reasons, and nice job on the BRZ btw. Seeing your pictures makes me miss the PNW, I be up there at one point again I am sure! :) good luck with the new adventure/project. Same thing for me, mod the shit out of everything, including the wife's car.

[AJacksA4]

Well I made back home at midnight! What a long day that was.

So I'm the guy who bought Kohei's beautiful RS. Don't worry guys, the car is on good hands and you'll definitely be seeing it around the forums for the next few years

Thanks again for the amazing purchase experience. Its often nerve-wracking flying out to another state to buy a car, you never know what to expect once you see the car in person. Lets just say that everything you told me was spot on. I drove off with a grin on my face.

The car's now here in the Bay Area where it will be living in the near future





I can't thank you enough man! Glad to have met you and enjoy that new S4

[torquesteer]

Very cool. Glad to see that car didn't go too far away.

[event]

I get the baby seat thing, but too special to put miles on? So you sell it to someone else so they can put miles on it? Makes no sense. I'd rather enjoy the car by putting the miles on it. Cars are meant to be driven.

[calijax]

Well I made back home at midnight! What a long day that was.

So I'm the guy who bought Kohei's beautiful RS. Don't worry guys, the car is on good hands and you'll definitely be seeing it around the forums for the next few years

Thanks again for the amazing purchase experience. Its often nerve-wracking flying out to another state to buy a car, you never know what to expect once you see the car in person. Lets just say that everything you told me was spot on. I drove off with a grin on my face.

The car's now here in the Bay Area where it will be living in the near future


I can't thank you enough man! Glad to have met you and enjoy that new S4

Nice! Congrats! Will reach out to get you involved with the other RS4 owners in the area

[rs4max]

Nice! Congrats! Will reach out to get you involved with the other RS4 owners in the area

Was gonna say just that! Hoping to see you both at the 034 event this week-end!

[calijax]

Was gonna say just that! Hoping to see you both at the 034 event this week-end!

Glad to be getting such a sick new car in the area. NorCalRS4 FTW! See you at 034

[dolby2thx]

AjacksA4....welcome to the RS4 family. Happy to see another RS4 in the Bay Area.

[bluebull]

That's some Oregon car butter heading to CA... LOL... Personally know the car too...take care of her.

[cotmfk]

Well I made back home at midnight! What a long day that was.

So I'm the guy who bought Kohei's beautiful RS. Don't worry guys, the car is on good hands and you'll definitely be seeing it around the forums for the next few years

Thanks again for the amazing purchase experience. Its often nerve-wracking flying out to another state to buy a car, you never know what to expect once you see the car in person. Lets just say that everything you told me was spot on. I drove off with a grin on my face.

The car's now here in the Bay Area where it will be living in the near future





I can't thank you enough man! Glad to have met you and enjoy that new S4

Congrats and enjoy!!!

[b6bydesign04]

Well I made back home at midnight! What a long day that was.

So I'm the guy who bought Kohei's beautiful RS. Don't worry guys, the car is on good hands and you'll definitely be seeing it around the forums for the next few years

Thanks again for the amazing purchase experience. Its often nerve-wracking flying out to another state to buy a car, you never know what to expect once you see the car in person. Lets just say that everything you told me was spot on. I drove off with a grin on my face.

The car's now here in the Bay Area where it will be living in the near future


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I can't thank you enough man! Glad to have met you and enjoy that new S4

Congrats and welcome!

I'm going with a B8.5 S4 with 19k miles on the clock, Ice Silver (bleh), APR stage 2 tune/Pulley/Stage 2 CF intake, okay VMR wheels and H&R sport springs. It has the basics that I would of done anyways.

The reason is that I didn't want to DD the RS4, and noticed many owners had theirs as their second car/weekend car. I have limited parking space in my condo, and I need a car that I don't feel bad putting miles on and throwing shit in the car. The RS4 felt too special for that, and with my low mileage, I hated putting miles on her. Also the back seat was smaller than the B8 and the baby seat is a very tight fit, causing the front seats to go all the way forward and still rub a little bit (baby Recaro's).

The car is in pristine shape, especially the paint and my preventative maintenance care I have done. I like to think my mods were tastefully done and not over the top, which my philosophy is clean and aggressive, coming from my JDM back ground. And I'm a CF whore as well. My plan was to track this car and done all the fluids, and have a extra pair of BNIB hawk pads. I needed to tweak a few more things before I was going to take her, and a good S4 popped near by, from a private seller. I wasn't sure if my car was going to sell, but I had overwhelming interest on it, and sold fairly quickly than I expected. I was planning on a last cruise with my local RS4 guys in August, but that is not going to happen now.

Like my previous BRZ, it seems like I do have that "build the car up and sell" bad habit. I'm not sure why.
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I'm looking forward to building my S4, and hopefully not going fucking nuts again and end up selling it for something else. I really hope I can keep this car for a long time as my grocery getter, until I decide to buy a house with a garage, then I can have my second toy car.

I would have to admit that my BRZ was more fun to drive and engaging, but the RS4 had a better quality build feel with rawness, which is pretty impossible to find now days.

Congrats on the sale as well! Enjoy the S4, I made the opposite move from a B8 to the RS4. Both great cars, but very different at the same time.

[AJacksA4]

Was gonna say just that! Hoping to see you both at the 034 event this week-end!

I actually can't make it this weekend! Already had plans for Saturday. Pretty bummed, I would have dyno'd it too just to make some noise

Glad to be getting such a sick new car in the area. NorCalRS4 FTW! See you at 034

Thanks man! Hope to see you around!

AjacksA4....welcome to the RS4 family. Happy to see another RS4 in the Bay Area.

Thanks!

That's some Oregon car butter heading to CA... LOL... Personally know the car too...take care of her.

She sure is creamy...

You can rest easy, I'll treat her like my own child that I don't have.

[WTF its Arturo]

Another sweet RS to the bay! Looking forward to seeing this beaut in some of the upcoming meetups.

[dufferdude]

I bet that was a fun drive south, vroom vroom. Congrats and welcome to the zoo.
Going to change your screen name to AjacksRS4?

[AvusPdx]

I need to change my handle name as well.. I should make it more generic so its not a pain everytime I get a new car lol

[Spoorguy]

damn I thought it was a fake posting and forgot to ask and just got notification of my promotion lol. awesome pick up though for both the new owner and for your b8.5 S4. Please let us know what you think about the b8 over the b7 and such. two different vehicles and I've read a lot but very curious still.

[lauderdale75]

Great video! Thank you for sharing. Also, I had no idea that Oregon was so beautiful. I need to visit soon. Can you tell me a little more about the filming locations, including the street scene where the cars are parked in that shopping area, and the road cutting through the mountains next to the river. Thanks!

[CoreyRS]

Ajack, congrats on a sweet car. We should get together for an RS4 hood gap fix day, im in need as well!

[torquesteer]

Great video! Thank you for sharing. Also, I had no idea that Oregon was so beautiful. I need to visit soon. Can you tell me a little more about the filming locations, including the street scene where the cars are parked in that shopping area, and the road cutting through the mountains next to the river. Thanks!

I think the scene you're referring to is when they were in the German-ish town of Leavenworth in Washington (state). It was during the annual German cars get together. The road along the river is highway 2 leading to Leavenworth.

Ajack, congrats on a sweet car. We should get together for an RS4 hood gap fix day, im in need as well!

How do you fix the hood gap? I have one on mine as well.

[AvusPdx]

Great video! Thank you for sharing. Also, I had no idea that Oregon was so beautiful. I need to visit soon. Can you tell me a little more about the filming locations, including the street scene where the cars are parked in that shopping area, and the road cutting through the mountains next to the river. Thanks!

Thanks! I've always wanted to be better at video editing, I hope to take a class soon just for fun. I can always use video skills for my own business as well.

The footage was taken at Leavenworth as Quan stated, but Oregon does have good scenic drives and photo shoot spots.

Its the hot spot right now!

[hotcury]

Congrats! Definately frustrated because he put it up for sale as a teaser than never wrote back. I ended up buying a different one and then a month later it went up for sale.