Audi owners in here!

86JR said:
Atleast Fox doesn't make outlandish statements such as "My bmw has better MPG than all audi's", then conveniently not posting the Fuelly figure for the economical Audi, instead choosing the DPF plagued 177 tdi version!

http://www.fuelly.com/car/bmw/530d/2013/xs2man/250603

Let's find us latest version Audi, eh?

http://www.fuelly.com/car/audi/a4/2014/UKPonchoMan/276144

Oh look. Audi has more MPG. What a suprise! :rolleyes:
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I didn't say that at all. I said in my experience that 6 pot BMW diesels were better performers than the 4 pot Audi diesels I had. I did actually go on to comment that perhaps I got unlucky twice in a row. You asked me to prove it, and I did provide the evidence.

It wasn't "convenience" that resulted in no fuelly figures for the first one. I traded that one in after a year (20k) as the average was sooooo poor. I thought it was maybe a duff engine, and the newer ones would undoubtedly be better (although it was a 2009 143). I was mistaken. The 177 was considerably worse (while looking considerably better admittedly). Which caused me to sign up to fuelly for better mpg tracking.

I really doubt the DPF would have been playing up too much with the 177 either, as my commute is around 40 miles of motorway, with 15 or so miles of fast A roads, and a few miles of town on each side. So actually perfect conditions to avoid DPF issues.

As for the Passat. Yes, it is good on fuel. But it is older. Hence my qualifying statement of I would be unlikely to purchase another RELATIVELY NEW Audi in the future. Just as I would be unlikely to purchase a relatively new VW / SEAT / Skoda diesel.

And, for the record, before my 2009 143, I had a 2.0 TDI (138) A3. And that averaged around 45 mpg over 50k. That wasn't bad as it has a relatively aggressive map on it for most of that, and being younger, it got some stick. So I am happy to buy older Audi's. But MY experience of the newer Audi diesels is that they are less economical than MY 6 pot beemers.

But what do I know? I'm only basing my opinions on nearly 100k of driving Audi diesels and around 30k on BMW diesels in the last 8 or so years.

I will also add that the not buying newer audis is specifically their diesels. At the same time as all that diesel driving I had various 1.8T's, V6's and even a V8 from Audi / VW. I do still like the petrol's and am seriously considering a B8 S4 at the moment.
 
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Tesla said:
What's the recommended VAGCOM solution?

Bought a Fabia a few months back and would like some software to keep an eye on error codes.

Also, need to give the throttle body a clean as it's a bit dirty due to an improperly mounted air filter housing. I understand it's wise to reset TB adaption values after this.
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Some people buy eBay cheapies, some people buy genuine.

I got my official Ross-Tech cable from www.gendan.co.uk
 
Made the jump and have purchased some BBS CK wheels in 19's. Was on my way back from work this afternoon on the A1 when a stone managed to get lodged between my caliper and alloy... pulled over and then ripped my under tray slightly massive pain luckily no cracked sump though.

Not the most ideal time but need them for my track day in two weeks.
 
Speaking of fuel economy, now that I've given the A6 Ultra (2l TDI 190) a few runs, I'm averaging around 40-45mpg on my 7 mile commute from home to the train station, which is a mixture of town driving in some stop start traffic at traffic lights and junctions and a couple of miles of NSL.

I also did a 70 mile each way drive around the M25 and saw an average of 55mpg.

This is what the computer is telling me anyway, it says I've still got 250 miles left in the tank and I've already done 450 miles!
 
how big is the tank? ;) my guess is pretty big :p hehe

popping along to audi tomorrow morning with the father as he has an appointment by invitation for them to try and tempt him to part ex his audi and spend money on a new/newer model :p apparently bringing down a load of cars from audi across the country and can't say what they have until the day, but they will be putting on "insane" deals..... :p "GIVE US ALL OF YOUR MONEY!" I read that as haha.

I'm fingers crossed for a tidy B8 S4 lurking about and just be done with it :D ;)
 
It'll be 70L tank in the A6 I would imagine. Same as the 5 series. 700 miles from the tank would be okay, and would be somewhere in the region of 45 mpg. My 5's best tank was 644 miles over 68L and came back with 42.8 mpg.
 
Regarding fuelling, I have to bring up the S3 and not being able to brim it.
It was mentioned a few pages back, but it's true - I think I once put 4 litres in after the first click. Stupid thing.
Measuring real fuel consumption v the OBC is nigh on impossible :(
 
[TW]Fox;26627139 said:
Ouch, hopefully it will get a bit better with age because that's no better than any car of its type released over the 10 years, you'd expect more with the Audi 'Ultra' hype.
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Hopefully, it's only done 500 miles in total so still running in.

Compared to my Range Rover though the economy so far is amazing!
 
mjt said:
Regarding fuelling, I have to bring up the S3 and not being able to brim it.
It was mentioned a few pages back, but it's true - I think I once put 4 litres in after the first click. Stupid thing.
Measuring real fuel consumption v the OBC is nigh on impossible :(
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It is a pain, you can literally brim it then six miles later it's already used a third of a quarter of a tank and you can stick another £10 in.
 
so the audi event thing was quite nice :) they put these big black curtains up along the length of the building so you couldn't see in, and then had a red carpet with a fake purple fire (blown material with lights) either side. the inside was just as I've seen before... and not even sure if they had different cars in there from last time... looked..... the same xD haha

they had a 14 plate a3 cab ready to go, which they were trying to tempt my father with. but after trade in of his they still wanted another 14k on top so he's just leaving it for now as when he did the same a few years ago he paid a bit over half that to get the new one :p also it was the 2.0tdi, rather than the 1.6tdi my father likes, so he wasn't really sold on it anyways (1.6tdi would have to be ordered and looking at delivery next year.. lol )

for me, well they hardly had anything. was lost in a sea of diesel :p a couple 1.8t a4's, and a rather nice s4 avant....but that was almost £30k :( but I've seen a few nice s4's on approved audi so probably have a bit more of a look into those :)
 
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So you tell us the event was quite nice and then go on to tell us it was full of cheese to tempt gullible people, they had no cars you wanted and the one car your Dad might have wanted was offered to him on a crap deal?

I'd hate to go to an event you described as 'not very good' :eek:
 
I wouldn't want to either ;) haha

well it was quite nice :) :p wandering about looking at all the sexy audis ;) that and some free welsh cakes ;) maybe I'm biased because of the free nibbles..... :p

but yeah the decorations were rather cheesy :p but what corporate event doesn't have something similar when they want you to feel "special" and butter you up to hand over some cash haha!

in fairness to them my father mentioned, to the guy he usually deals with, a while ago I was looking for an A4 and that's all they knew. so it was pretty much entirely for my father, I just tagged along to see what they had, ask a few Q's and have wander :) my father had a few options but just nothing that made him throw his wallet at them :p

got me up early to enjoy the rest of the day at least ;)
 
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Fox will shudder, but I'm going to look at an A5 3,0 TDI tomorrow. Two in fact, one private and one at a dealer.

Anything I should be looking out for apart from the obvious? Both cars have full Audi history, just over 30000 miles, one's an 09 and one's a 10.

Finally, what's the extended warranty like? Any where near as good as the BMW one?
 
Has anyone had any issues with their Sat Nav, mine seems to forget where it last was every time you start it and thinks it's about 20 miles away from where it really is so takes absolutely ages to pick up any satellites.

I'll be taking it to the dealer to get them to check it out but just wondered if anyone else as issues?

I've got a 2014 A6 with 2014 maps (standard MMI not Google maps)
 
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