I’ve done both and extractor takes out like 97% of oil. I still had about a half cup when I pulled the plug.
Got some summers for my stock 20” wheels earlier this year, and they exceeded any tire I’ve tried before in grip. In particular, at the same time the ride quality for 265/30 tire feels like a 19 or 18. Then I needed to replace my winters (Toyo Observ) so I tried their Wintrac’s and holy shit, they have stiff sidewalls for cornering yet while cruising are like floating on air. Hugely noticeable cornering improvement over the Toyos.
It took me 6 hours to replace the head gaskets on my 2011 Audi S5 V8. It wasn’t hard, just time consuming.
Put in a Sachs Xtend kit. I’m currently at 173k on my 13’ s5
They are excellent IMO, feel just as good as my previous Conti DWS, but I got these for a much better price, from TireRack. They are a European company, great quality tires, just a lesser known brand here.
Great all year round, I'm in the Northeast, they ran beautifully over the winter.
I don’t have a bad thing to say about them. Sticky, quiet, and comfy. On the cheaper side too, but I’m sure that’ll show in the life (rated to 25k miles). I’ve got one track day in on them, and they held up incredibly well. They’re super nice to daily, too.
Honestly they have 90% of the grip of an average summer tire with twice the tread life.
Autozone duralast, cheap and get the job done. Coils are coils and don’t really affect any performance
I owned a 2009 4.2L V8 S5, had to get a new water pump & housing. euro specialty shop did it for me for ~$700.
My s5 water pump failed at 300 miles, car wound up lemon’d.
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