Got the new Audi at last.(56k no)

Dandle · 3 Mar 2006 at 00:13

Hi just thought i would post some pics of our new car we picked up yesterday. Its been a long wait, we ordered the original car on Aug 1st last year. Three day before we were due to pick the original car up Audi released the Special edition 2.0T model which had some of the extras we had specced but worked out £1700+VAT cheaper. We had to reorder another car as they wouldn't match the price so I used the money saved to add the nav and bluetooth which we didnt spec originally

(The nav unit is superb I have 4gb of mp3s in there on two sd cards)

Its a A3 sportback 2.0T Quattro S-line. Will get some better pics soon but here it is anyway.

Dandle · 3 Mar 2006 at 00:14

Will post some interior pics when I get some better ones.

Oh yeah let my dad drive it last night and he went and kerbed one of the alloys and split the tyre :rolleyes:

Hes paying for fixing it though. When I looked at the price of one rim it was £355+vat. After talking to Audi this morning they will send it off to be repaired which is a fair bit cheaper.

Dandle · 3 Mar 2006 at 00:30

SoliD said:
nice very very nice, haha your poor dad! bet he felt like a right tool, did he come back and do what you did as a kid and say son i got something to tell you? or were you in the car?

I was in the car, he was moving up the inside of some traffic(about 5mph) and i said to him "watch the kerb" and about 3 seconds later it hit. He is really gutted. Helens face was a picture though when we got back to my parents, I walked through the door and said "dads just hit kerbed the wheel and split the tyre" she thought i was joking until he walked in and said "i'm really sorry". It's just one of those things though and it will be repaired.

Dandle · 4 Mar 2006 at 10:16

Tesla said:
I assume you got a spare alloy so at least the car won't look dodgy until the other one gets repaired

No it comes with a space saver in the boot. It goes into Audi on Monday they are repairing the wheel for £70. I get the car back Tuesday then.

sormicoft said:
nice

but shoulda got a derv

We tried the deisel and although it felt really quick to drive it actually isnt (26seconds to 100mph). Modern deisels are deceiving as a lot of them feel quicker due to the sharper power band and gearing. I wasn't too bothered about economy either as I would rather have the power. The 2.0T motor is a good one for chipping when I decide it needs more power later on.

Cheers for the replies guys. The engine is starting to loosen up now(250miles on it now). Im still only taking it up to 3k but am findind the speed in whatever gear at 3k rpm is significantly faster than it was the first day. Will get some interior pics later today.

Dandle · 4 Mar 2006 at 10:22

Fusion said:
Loosen up after 250 miles :O

I'd have thought it'd need ten times that.

It will need about 3-5k apparently but its already showing vast improvements.

Dandle · 4 Mar 2006 at 17:18

A few pics of the interior.

Dandle · 6 Mar 2006 at 22:22

It cost just under £28K although list price is about £31500 for all the options we have on it.

Dandle · 7 Mar 2006 at 10:06

Two door cars werent an option we were looking at as are getting married this year and if we were spending so much on a car the plan is to keep it for a long time and a lot of that time we plan on our kids using it.

The A4 doesnt really offer thet much more room than the sportback, infact the sportback has more rear passenger space than the last model A4(B5) does(it looses on some boot space though). My other half also prefered a hatchback although that wasn't the make or brake of it. We looked at quite a few cars and the A3 stood out, it makes the BMW 1 series seem rubbish and that was the other main car were looking at. Although we did only look at the 120D and 118s as the 130 wasnt out at the time. Its also seems a much smaller car and feels a bit cramped especially in the rear.

The A3 is an expensive car and i have added every feature I wanted to ours as I dont want to be wishing id only paid a few hundred more for that at a later date. Even if I specc up a similar Golf GTI it comes out to about £27.5k(list) and they dont have a lot of the options that the Audi does and the Audi is finished much better than the Golf is.

Dandle · 7 Mar 2006 at 10:19

Trojan said:
Very nice looking car fella, though not what I'd go for myself. How's the handling on it, much understeer at all?

I havent been ragging the car yet but from how I have been driving it the handling is spot on, it could do with a little more feedback through the steering wheel but I will sort that when my VAG-COM arrives. The ride is fairly stiff on the S-Lines and you can feel bumps in the road(something some people don't like, thats why the SE is in the range though) but I like it. Its only on P-Zero Rossos but seems to stick to the road like glue and doesnt have any body roll, the only reason you know you are going around the corner so quick is feeling from the seat holding you in place. The brakes are fantastic too, ive got mintex C-Tech discs and pads on my T4 and the A3 standard brakes have much more feel and bite than those and the T4 stops you like you've dropped an anchor(they are slightly smaller though on the T4 and with smaller tyres) .

Dandle · 7 Mar 2006 at 12:19

[TW]Fox said:
More metal + it looks worth closer to £28k

Only 20kg difference in weight between the Sportback 2.0t Q and the A4 2.0T. Cant coment on the looks as I like the sportback