Man takes risk on $160,000 Audi S8 he got for $9,500 and it looks like he may have a steal after proving dealer's diagnosis wrong

This YouTuber took a huge risk after buying a six-figure Audi S8 for about the same money he’d have spent on a lavish holiday in Florida.

Not cheap, but doable.

Apparently, the reason why he was able to buy a six-figure (per MSRP) car for $10,000 had everything to do with a huge miscalculation.

And it played out in his favor – let’s do the math.

The reason why this Audi S8 was so cheap

It isn’t mentioned in the video, but with our Sherlock Holmes hat on, that’s a pre-facelift Audi S8 D5.

It’s probably from 2020, and definitely built before 2022, because it has the old grille from before the 2022 facelift.

Back when it was new, this was a $160,000 vehicle.

But it only cost Rich Rebuilds (not his first rodeo with a broken Audi) $10,000.

Why? The list of reasons is long, but the main one is the engine.

According to the Audi dealership that diagnosed the car before Rich bought it, the engine was ‘blown’ and beyond repair.

There were other issues, too.

The electronics were a mess, the battery was dead, there were oil leaks everywhere, and the car was no longer in stock condition, which ultimately led to the ‘misdiagnosis.’

The dealership was wrong, and this saved Rich

This high-performance sedan had been heavily modified with aftermarket components, which, along with the dead battery, led to a lethal combination of about a thousand ‘fault codes’ in the car’s ECU, and a wrong diagnosis.

The thing is, dealerships often ‘flag’ modified cars as blown because they don’t want to spend hours diagnosing tuned vehicles.

So the diagnosis was apparently a little hasty – and, most importantly, wrong.

They’d all but written it off.

But Rich didn’t, and a manual inspection revealed that the engine was in bad shape, but still mechanically sound, and salvageable.

It won’t be cheap, and we’ll definitely find out more in the next video shared by Rich.

For now, we’d call that a win.