Used Audi A4 for Sale in Joliet, IL

In a word: cost. The gas mileage isn't notably bad, but it isn't great either. I get around 30 miles per gallon, and with the rising costs of gasoline, this is getting to be a factor. More importantly though is the fact that repairs on this car WILL be expensive. There is no doubt about it. So far, the car has performed with no "unscheduled" break down, but all cars eventually develop problems. It's just the nature of the beast. When such problems do occur on this particular vehicle, they will cost a lot of money to fix. Germans don't usually engineer their cars to be easily accessible and fixable. Their engineering tends to lean towards making it work more often than not. Japanese cars, on the other hand, tend to break down more frequently but are at least an order of magnitude easier to repair. Besides the painful costs behind unexpected repairs, this car has a maintenance schedule that is just as proportionally costly to others of its class. The 75k mile maintenance tasks, for example, cost on the order of $2k, and involve dis assembly of the entire front end of the car just to get at the timing belt. By comparison, a Honda Accord's timing belt is readily accessible with just the opening of the hood. The Accord doesn't handle nearly as well as the Audi, and will break down more often though.

The vehicle comes stock only with 16" alloy wheels, the repairs are expensive, parts are expensive, 91 octane minimum fuel rating also makes the gas station visits a little more expensive.