Audi owners in here!

If you're keeping it 8 years it'll be worth nothing when you come to sell, so depreciation is not an issue.

I'd rather have a newer car with more miles that I'd run into the ground than an older lower mileage car.

To my mind age kills a car before miles do.
 
Sorry but I agree with him, having owned high mileage cars and low mileage ones of the same era/model, the lower the miles the better. My car is 6 years old but feels brand new because it has only done 28k over that 6 year lifespan.
 
Good day for car cleaning!

DA'd the car a couple of weeks back. Sprint blue it quite hard to photograph well on my pants camera sadly...

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Couple of questions for you Audi folks as I'm considering an A4 as my next car. Only do around 9000 miles per year with a short daily commute of 13 mile either way so I'm looking at the petrol engines. Is the 2.0tfsi the one to go for over the 1.8 as from looking at the figures it seems to offer a bit better efficiency and performance as well as a lower tax band. I've read of oil consumption problems but at the same time if I look up pretty much any car I'll likely read of some sort of problems. Is it a common enough problem to give me second thoughts and go for the 1.8?

Still doing my homework as I'm no rush to change, I can be patient enough to wait until I see something I like, trying to see what sort of prices cars are selling at and so on. An example of something I quite like would be this A4 at a local dealer although it's the 1.8 160 engine.
 
Any help me with my previous question?

Thinking of moving from a 5Dr, 1.3 Diesel Corsa SXI to a 5Dr, 1.6 Diesel A3 SE when my lease is up.

Doing about 700/800 miles per week and carrying a passenger or two. I've seen some great reviews and I'm struggling to find a car I like as much. I've yet to test drive one as it's a while yet till I need to be looking.

Can anyone recommend anything that may be worth a look into? Or shed any light on what the car would be like.
 
Tachyon said:
Couple of questions for you Audi folks as I'm considering an A4 as my next car. Only do around 9000 miles per year with a short daily commute of 13 mile either way so I'm looking at the petrol engines. Is the 2.0tfsi the one to go for over the 1.8 as from looking at the figures it seems to offer a bit better efficiency and performance as well as a lower tax band. I've read of oil consumption problems but at the same time if I look up pretty much any car I'll likely read of some sort of problems. Is it a common enough problem to give me second thoughts and go for the 1.8?

Still doing my homework as I'm no rush to change, I can be patient enough to wait until I see something I like, trying to see what sort of prices cars are selling at and so on. An example of something I quite like would be this A4 at a local dealer although it's the 1.8 160 engine.
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The 2.0 is the better engine for the reasons you have already said. Oil consumption isn't an issue for most. Mine doesn't and my friend A3 2.0tfsi barely uses oil between services.
 
Xez said:
The 2.0 is the better engine for the reasons you have already said. Oil consumption isn't an issue for most. Mine doesn't and my friend A3 2.0tfsi barely uses oil between services.
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Thanks Xez, appreciate the reply, good to hear, I'll keep an eye out for the 2.0 and hopefully something in my budget will show up.
 
Xez said:
The 2.0 is the better engine for the reasons you have already said. Oil consumption isn't an issue for most. Mine doesn't and my friend A3 2.0tfsi barely uses oil between services.
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Afaik oil is more of an issue with the desiel beasts, they like a drink and audi know it, so audi fill your oil bottle between your services so you can top up the oil level when the car requests it.
Thats how the dealer put it to me.
 
All TFSI petrol engines love to drink oil. R8 owners are constantly having to top up oil on both V8 and V10 models, and the same applies all the way down to 1.2 TFSI engines.

If one cannot afford to buy oil one cannot afford to run a TFSI engine! 1 litre of oil per 1000-1500 miles is the norm especially for the 2.0 TFSI, which is what, £10 per 1500 miles... **** all!
 
86JR said:
All TFSI petrol engines love to drink oil. R8 owners are constantly having to top up oil on both V8 and V10 models, and the same applies all the way down to 1.2 TFSI engines.

If one cannot afford to buy oil one cannot afford to run a TFSI engine! 1 litre of oil per 1000-1500 miles is the norm especially for the 2.0 TFSI, which is what, £10 per 1500 miles... **** all!
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This intrigues me as I've never had to top up any VAG car apart from my 140k VR6 which I dribbled a small amount of oil into after a year. Admittedly I've never owned a TFSI but I've owned pretty much every engine that VAG has made and I can't imagine why a TFSI is different to their other engines?
 
TFSIs do have a reputation for drinking oil and Audi treat it as normal until it becomes extreme.

My 2.0TFSI doesn't use much at all, maybe 250-500ml every 10k. That's at 110,000 miles too!
 
86JR said:
All TFSI petrol engines love to drink oil. R8 owners are constantly having to top up oil on both V8 and V10 models, and the same applies all the way down to 1.2 TFSI engines.

If one cannot afford to buy oil one cannot afford to run a TFSI engine! 1 litre of oil per 1000-1500 miles is the norm especially for the 2.0 TFSI, which is what, £10 per 1500 miles... **** all!
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With my R8 V10 on order I have obviously been reading up on a lot of this.

Apparently from what I can gather the oil consumption can vary greatly depending on how you drive the car over the initial break in miles.

If you drive it hard (once up to temp) the engine will produce more pressure and bed the rings in "better".
Some owners hardly ever have to top their oil up while others who baby it or are not the original owner and didn't get the opportunity to drive it hard from the start are always having to top it up every 1000 miles or so.

And the R8 engines are FSI without the T ;)
 
My 2.0TFSI uses hardly any oil at all. They tend to drink oil if the PCV breather system is knackered (you can tell from the rough idle). They also drink a lot of oil if the valves are sooted up. They are very difficult to clean effectively due to the engine being direct injection so methods such as terra clean have little effect (although they claim to have a method for direct injection cars now).
 
Went down the audi showroom on sat with my dad (looking to replace his a3 1.6tdi cab) to look at the new A3 Cab that's 6in longer than the old one? :p had a very nice S3 Saloon there with quad tips... yum! :D but yeah they had discussions about the a3cab and possibly a Q3. thought the book price they quoted ofr my dad on his car was a bit low though, think they said £11-12k. 11plate a3 cab SE 1.6TDI with 17k, one owner.

and then regarding deals on the new car there was nothing the guy could do :p was trying to push finance but couldn't offer dealer cont or anything nice xD

then went to have a look at the VW golf cab. pretty nice, sister already has one of those too. looked at the touran, but not spare wheel what so ever...just the gunk in a can...which my father considers a deal breaker.

then to suzuki to look at the sx4 s-cross... fair play..... really nice!

think my dad has a list of about 6 cars now he wants to go test drive xD

oh in the audi dealership though my dad mentioned I was looking at a b7 a4 petrol and had been for some time and if any come in if they could let him know too (took his details to let him know about delivery times and other things). pretty much just said I'd been looking for a while for one but there was not much in the south wales area and mentioned I was looking to spend under 7k and he just gave me a "look" and said it would be impossible to get one that low. :( meanie!
 
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