The ‘new’ headlight is wrong, I know, but it was the only replacement I could get at the time. Headlight repair kids from Audi were on backorder too 👍🏻

@nenadvucicevic2026

10 ай бұрын

Yep, U got the prefacelift one, it's a smaller projector..try swaping the internals, but that permaseal will give you a headache..

@horstszibulski19

10 ай бұрын

@@nenadvucicevic2026 Baking it in the oven at 50 or 60°C should help, from what I heard...

@nenadvucicevic2026

10 ай бұрын

@@horstszibulski19 if it's permaseal and not butyl, no bake can help

@Audi80B4V8

10 ай бұрын

might be able to help you out on that....

@eleonik76

10 ай бұрын

Okay. First thing first. This car has no value for a proper car enthusiast. The RS badge does nothing to change that. Here is why. It's nightmare to service,as the whole engine is pushed far ahead near the radiator. Second,the engine sits right above the front axle,and it's pretty heavy too,so handling of this car is terrible. It's heavy,handles like a pig,not reliable,rusts a lot and the list is endless. With these money I would've got E46 330i or even M3 in bad condition and restore it. And it's value will only go up.

48 pounds for that job? Thats insane, i hope you left a nice tip, those companies and people are priceless.

i think what makes this channel so good is being able to relate to it. He doesn't have all the tools, knowledge, funds as some other people but shows what can be done if you want to. excellent.

@psv1600

6 ай бұрын

so true !

Keep up the content dude, you're not as flashy as Mat Armstrong but thats your charm.

@philmoore71

10 ай бұрын

they all have their own charm... and this car is a 'mite' cheaper

@Vellinga94

10 ай бұрын

Mat Armstrong flashy? I don't know for how long you watch him, but he was absolutely the most insecure guy I ever saw on KZread.

@gazmoto

8 ай бұрын

@@Vellinga94Mat Armstrong and “insecure” are not words I would use in the same sentence 😂 professional bmxer and millionaire under 30 for bodging performance cars 👍

@Acme-Logistics

7 ай бұрын

You mean that annoying grinning gob 💩te' This channel is wayyy better!

@In_memory_of_Dad

7 ай бұрын

This guy is way better

That pipe the company made that you showed at 17:37 is fantastic and a true testament to their skills.

@NotEconomicallyViable

10 ай бұрын

Absolutely

For the fiberglass filler you can get aluminium mesh to put behnd the hole and apply fiberglass filler on top as it helps strengthen the repair, Nice work ✌️

My 2003 audi rs6 has over 390k miles. I've rebuilt the engine once, and rebuilt the transmission twice. The KEY to these cars lasting a LONG time is actually very simple.... Replace ALL rubber hoses every 5-6 years. The only other key requirement is making sure the drains under the hood near the firewall DO NOT clog up. Water will enter the cabin and flood the electronics under the driver and passenger seats if you don't keep this drains cleared of leaves and other crap. BAM that's it, car will last 1 million miles reliably.

Your perseverance is second to none because I felt like I was feeling your joy and pain at each turn, yet you didn't give it the 🖕🏻, you just got on with it 😂 love the use of a local engineering company for the pipe, just goes to show they're the real winners 👍🏻

Keep up the hard work and persistence. I'm always happy to see you repairing these vehicles and learning so much along the way. You're still more of a mechanic than many other people and you are not afraid to tackle the difficult bits. Love the content!

@NotEconomicallyViable

10 ай бұрын

Thanks mate👍

@dustyrhodes2717

6 ай бұрын

That Armstrong guy annoys the piss out of me. He does not know anything about cars. Hope he punts on.

Wow nice to see that you came back to work on your RS6. 3 month went quite fast, keep doing what you doing!

@NotEconomicallyViable

10 ай бұрын

Thanks bud! The three months felt slow to me haha. But that’s because I’ve been looking at the car on axle stands every day 😂

@salazar1104

10 ай бұрын

@@NotEconomicallyViable I know how it's, working on your car seems like forever. Ordering parts, fighting seized bolts makes time hard and slow 😄

@NotEconomicallyViable

10 ай бұрын

@salazar1104 haha you know the score

You've done a great work with this complicated car! You're becoming better and better every day! 🎉🎉🎉

Fabulous work, you are not only restoring this beautiful car you are also learning AND teaching at the same time. So well done on the work you do and your patience is amazing, sure sounds a real treat and must be a wonderful car to drive, the sound alone is worth what you have spent! Thanks for this and look forward to the next project.

Very much appreciating the realness of this content. Showing all your mistakes and frustrations. You have a new Subscriber! 👍

Glad to see you back man - keep them coming. Will be catching up on your back catalogue asap

Yes, can’t wait for this, really enjoy your videos and personality.🎱

Loving this rebuild, my favourite Audi RS. A well presented and real build

Oh boy, love seeing new videos from NEV :D

keep going. i enjoy your builds

We all felt your pain. Great that you got it running and driving. You're a patient man.

You are a great presenter of this stuff, you always make me smile and I'm really wishing you success with your projects.

Keep up the good work! I had tons of fun helping my friend fix his car after a crash, we made many mistakes, took too long but we learned so much and finally fixed it. If I live in the UK I'd ask to come around every weekend 😅

You need to use knifing stopper (cellulose putty ) after you've use fillers which is very easy to use , takes no hardener and will save lots of rubbing etc and get you a far better finish

Well done, great to see one of these going back on the road and being saved form being parted out. I had a mint one of these for four years and at the time there were only about 300-400 still on UK roads out of the original 8000 imported. Still miss it and have contemplated acquiring a neglected one to bring back to life, and it's interesting to watch someone else cut a path to doing so. I do almost all the work on my 2011 VW Transporter myself, having taken advantage of Covid to take the time to learn how to do so, including a lot of factory retrofits. I think this could be within my reach now. Keep up the good work.

I'm amazed by how your content is not boring. I usually get bored by these restoration videos, but yours is trully interesting.

I love how honest you make it look about working on cars in your driveway. It’s hard! Now we know why it took a while for this video but massive kudos to you for figuring out all the faults. My only qualm is that you say “off of” when the correct word is be “from”. 😂 Looking forward to part 3

Great to see you back and well done on the turnaround! Looking good, sounding sweet! I'm sure we are brothers from another mother as your pain with mechanicals match mine but we still go for it 😂 Looking forward to the next one man!

Best you tube channel I’ve found for a very long time! Nino.. honestly why haven’t you done this sooner??? You’re making awesome content. I love the fact you use local businesses too. Keep it up mate

‘Layer Cake’ vibes strong with this one. I still yearn for one of these. Hope your next steps go smoother for your sake. Best of luck!

You know what I don’t normally comment on anything but after watching a few of you’re videos seriously it’s so nice to actually see someone doing this stuff who just seems like a regular joe using KZread and looking at the handbooks and stuff like that it keeps it real and shows that with some hard work and some effort anyone can do this keep up the good work loving the videos mate

I’ve been waiting so long for this video. What a beast of a car. I love watching your work. You don’t pretend to be anything else and just have a go and what results you are getting. Great work mate. Look forward to the next one

@NotEconomicallyViable

10 ай бұрын

Thanks as always, Wayne 👍

Just watched this video, I really admire your courage for repairing this complicated car. She is looking Beautiful. Well Done 👍

amazing, really great to see someone who has much luck as i do with these things !. also really great to see someone dealing with small local companies to make it happen.

Brilliant video, love these old beasts!

Nice choice of build great stuff, looking forward to this series 😁👍🏽

Brill sounds awesome looks fab well done, I found as I got older the limiting factor was lack of a lift - without one it just makes pretty much anything a right pain. Good luck, let’s hope the timing chains and tensioners hold up.

Well done fella - done fantastic job so far on it.. looking forward to see it completely finished one again nice work keep it up

@NotEconomicallyViable

10 ай бұрын

Thanks you, mate

Great work, great the car is driveble , amazing! congrats and cannot wait until the car will be fully restored.

How have I only just found this channel?! Awesome 👌

Ahhhh Nino, good to see you back Some good work goung on there You must have the worlds most understanding wife EVER 😂😂😂😂

@NotEconomicallyViable

10 ай бұрын

Haha she's great

@itsmephil2255

10 ай бұрын

@@NotEconomicallyViable 👏

You achieved the impossible so far. Doing stuff like this at home is a nightmare. I've subscribed to see more progress on this and future projects. Thanks for the upload. 👍

Man, that is a beautiful automobile! You are a great mechanic/auto repairman. Pretty darn resourceful on getting parts too. Congrats.

You sir are an absolute legend. Keep the videos coming 👏

Very impressed! We’ll done 👍

First time Ive watched you. Great content just a normal which makes you so easy to watch. Brilliant I've subscribed

14:12 If it WERE that easy, EVERYONE would have a twin-turbo V8 Audi! Really awesome seeing you push through the headache parts that ALWAYS tend to pop up on this sort of endeavor! Great work!!

Love the content. Binge watched a load and I say this channel will start growing rapidly

Just found your channel and now catching up with your videos. I think it's great that you're giving these repairs a go, fantastic results also. You have the patience of a Saint as must your wife!! Anyway, just wanted to say you have a new subscriber who is very keenly catching up with your videos. Good luck with all your projects. 👍👍👍

The vids are amazing love your work man

Really nice content, thank you.. enjoyed it a lot!

You are one of my favourite new KZreadrs; safe to say I'm a bit addicted by your style. I really connect with your content haha Keep up the good work mate!

Amazing car well jelly of her.....With the Abs...you need to code it with vcds, get engine and gearbox service done asap. Gearboxes on RS'es are prone to die. All together...well done 👍👍👍

Great video, very interesting, keep up the good work well done

Looks amazingly clean for the money top buy

Awesome job fella! Loving the content 👌

@NotEconomicallyViable

5 ай бұрын

Appreciate it!

smashing video that motor sounds awesome 😎😎😎

Mate you are great doing this outdoors without a garage, lift or a pit - this is quite inspiring to be honest. Top lad! It just proves that you can really do what you want, no matter of the circumstances. Phenomenal work

Love the video's mate! Keep it up! 🎉

Really enjoyed the video looking forward to the next one

@NotEconomicallyViable

6 ай бұрын

More to come!

Sounds a right beast!

If u get this back on the road thats bloody good work Good luck

Nice work , absolute beast of a car

I've followed you from your first video. Another frustrating car to work on but you're turning it around in your own way, great video Nino.

@NotEconomicallyViable

10 ай бұрын

Cheers, Paul 👍

Good video mate well done mate not easy doing this outside work with no garage or car lift praise you good work

As a big fan of old Audis thumbs up , I especially like that you do it outside and try to fix everything you can , very sympathetic 👍 greetings from Slovakia

@NotEconomicallyViable

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the kind words 👍

You had your lesson with pipe, you used a local machine shop. Should have used a local machine shop to repair the brake caliper bleeding screw threads as well.

Get some 2k UV resistant clear acrylic lacquer for the refinished headlamp… will make the finish stay nice for a lot longer… just wet sanding and polishing they tend to craze and yellow in about 12 months.

Great vid nico really enjoyed hope the rest doesn’t cost much !

I have been following your RS6 story with great interest. I am too trying to recommission my 2004 RS6 after it has sadly languished on my drive for several years, due to life and long term illness keeping me and the car inactive. Keep up the good work and enjoy the car! Cheers Rachael

@NotEconomicallyViable

10 ай бұрын

Cheers, Rachael. Good luck with the recommissioning!

7:00 it’s called a rad pack mate, great video keep up the good content.

Nice work on bumper and oil pipes, saved yourself a small fortune there as well as weeks waiting for parts. Enjoying videos be nice to see you doing more of the work in detail just to see how its done

@NotEconomicallyViable

10 ай бұрын

Thanks 👍

I had forgotten about this build. Glad to see the upload. You made a lot of progress in this video. Good job. Edit: ffs clear coat the headlights though. You can see them yellowing again throughout the video.

New here looking forward to binge watching your channel ..I really enjoyed watching this ..subscribed straight away

Nice video! I have a 2002 audi rs6 so it fun to see when you work on your😎 regards from Sweden.

new sub here mate your off your nut doing a car like this but i love it love your perseverance even when sh*t hits the fan theres got to be a big audi breakers in uk you could use for the hard to get parts

I have loved watching your channel grow! Reminds me of the average bloke rolling around in the dirt to fix a car just to save a few quid 😂😂 Keep it up buddy!

i look forward to your videos. the RS6 is a beast!

Just watch this good luck with the redt of the rebuild mate 👍🏻

I do look forward to your videos. Good job. Nice car

Just found your channel and now subscribed. Am enjoying and emphasising with the content as been there and done that many times 😢😂

New subscriber here Nino, loving your videos and humble down to earth honesty, keep up the good work

@NotEconomicallyViable

7 ай бұрын

Really appreciate that mate 👍

One of my favourite channels and projects hope to have the money to start a project of my own soon

Love your content 👏👏

Great videos, keep up the good work 👍🏽

@NotEconomicallyViable

10 ай бұрын

Thanks, will do!

good stuff nino

Well done mate.

Just found you on here. Loving the videos mate! Keep smashing it 💪🏻

@NotEconomicallyViable

8 ай бұрын

Thank you mate - will do 👍

You earned my respect. Sub’d!

Hiya mate, fellow hobbiest here enjoyed the video! Thought I'd leave a commen about your front grill... it looks like yours has been spray painted black over the original chrome (poorly) you can see where the stone chips are revealing the original audi chrome beneath it, If you give that grill a little rub down with some Isopropyl and a microfiber that thin layer of black spray paint will more then likely come right off.. you may just have a half decent grill I know this because I'm most the way through an S3 8L rebuild which is of similar generation in terms of age, i had bought a grill that was spray painted black like that, i literally hit it with some isopropyl and it was like brand new after that, and it didn't eat the chrome either, it just took off the black paint and grey primer layer in one wipe. All the best with the proj! maybe give it a bash :)

@NotEconomicallyViable

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing that - I'm going to give that a go for sure. Anything I can do to keep costs down too

Awesome progress in such a seemingly short space of time! It’s like watching Mat Armstrong on time lapse 😅 you’ve managed to pretty much complete this build in one video where Mat would have spaced it out over 3-4 😂 great job! Also I love finding local companies that can do a job quicker, cheaper and better than the main stealers 😎 I found a hydraulics company near me that make silicone hoses. I managed to get specially made hoses for my old ktm 250 sxf for about £15 a few years ago where as the cheapest ones on line were £35 +p&p and they had them ready the next day

Hey Nino, best video yet mate!! I really think you’re finding your groove. Did an ABS module on an A6 cabrio many moons ago & was thinking ‘I hope he’s going to code it’ as I was watching 😘 Thought that caliper might be repairable at a machine shop. That said, it ain’t a job for bodgery so reckon you did the right thing. Turning out grand!!

@NotEconomicallyViable

10 ай бұрын

Cheers, Colin. I'm going to see if I can get the caliper repaired and then put it on eBay and see if I can claw some money back.

Love this channel, Im currently stuck in a hospital bed after an op and was bored senseless and found your videos on the Audi, hours later I've watched you on the Audi, rover, fiat, newer Audi, a Peugeot and had a laugh at you and your good lady cleaning it, been watching the videos back to back for hours now, great videos, love the fact you are learning as you go along, one thing I will say is your temper and self control is amazing, hit a problem you laugh at it and deal with it where I would be doing a Basil Faulty and battering hell out the car.....working my way through them all, currently on the Jag video, bargain, love those cars!!!

@NotEconomicallyViable

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the kind words, Gary! Hope the op went well 👍🏻

@garyclements2821

7 ай бұрын

@@NotEconomicallyViable thank you, every word deserved 👏 So far op has gone well, a bit of pain still but I made it, 8 hour op as complications which they wouldn't tell me about but just like your car's a jump start and a bit of jiggling about with the electrics and all running again

@NotEconomicallyViable

7 ай бұрын

@@garyclements2821 😂 good to hear

Just stumbled apon your channel and found it very interesting....keep up the good work 👏

@NotEconomicallyViable

10 ай бұрын

Thanks mate

Loving the vids

Secret to faded headlights is wet sanding then clear coating, will look like new 👍

G,day what a cool looking car sounds great top job love this channel

Bloody awsome man! Rs6 first gen is a dream to own and work on. Pretty jealous tbh ;)

Been waiting for this update what great video im not 100% sure but i believe the abs coding will be able to do it with audi own code reader

24:25 the click you hear is the magnetic switch that physically enables you to change positions of the lever when the brake pedal is pressed. It’s perfectly normal aside from being a bit loud on the video. You can remove the silver plate of the lever and look down inside, you should be able to see it, maybe it is a bit shifted because of the impact of the accident. You can even move it manually with a long and slim tool in case of electrical problems that way.

Keep the faith mate. Your going about it the right. Just takes a little longer. 😎

This is SO COOL