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I don’t normally keep my cars beyond the new car warranty period, but I so like my A4 Avant, I decided to soldier on with it for a fourth year. I took out an extended warranty just in case and at the end of the fourth year the annual service identified a cracked thermostat housing with...

A4 Avant, 4 years old, annual service and 2nd MOT, 25,500 miles. The technician gives you a headcam rundown on his findings which I find useful as I have no means of getting under the car. To my surprise he identified corrosion on one of the rear suspension mountings and marked it as an...

I bought my Avant partly - or perhaps mainly - for its load-lugging ability. I seem to be folding the rear seats and removing the luggage guard and rear luggage cover and then replacing them on a fairly regular basis. A few months ago I didn’t have time to put it all back together before we...

My Avant had its second annual service today. As part of the service the above work was also carried out. It was explained to me as something to do with the service interval display. Anybody else had this done? It was apparently a national recall but the recall must have passed me by.

Just watching a promotion for this on shopping channel. Does this stuff work without damaging the surface of your paintwork? How can you rub something into the bodywork without first removing grit and dirt? And if it’s so effective, why are we all wasting our time with our two buckets, snow...

It took me some time (and many posts on the A3 forum) to pluck up the courage to specify s-tronic when I decided to go for an A4. I was mistrusting of the gearbox, but despite some inevitable problems, the experience of other posters was generally favourable and some would never go back to...

On now on ITV1. The main character drives a black facelift A3 sportback. It has black roof rails but a chrome grill surrround, so it doesn’t appear to be a black edition. I’ll check again, but I think it has brightwork window surrounds. Is it possible to have roof rails in black when the car...

I believe we have a contributor to this forum from NZ, unless I’m thinking of the A3 forum. I’m currently on a motoring tour of NZ and just wanted to say how much I love your roads. Almost all roads are single carriageway and the maximum speed limit is 100 kph, but the traffic is so much...

Just discovered this product on YouTube and would really like to try it. My cleaning regime finishes with AG Aquawax which dries the paintwork and polishes it at the same time. The wax lasts 2-3 weeks which works out just right for the next wash and coat of Aquawax. My question is this...

I do a 150 mile round trip every month or so from Hampshire to Hertfordshire. It involves the M3, M25 and A1(M) with a couple of miles at either end to get to the actual destinations. From Hants to Herts I average 44 mpg according to the DIS, but in the reverse direction it’s always 38 mpg...

Taking delivery of an A3 cabrio within the next few days. I've read and been advised different ways of cleaning the fabric roof and have no idea which to adopt. Could I ask the experts on this forum for guidance please. For background, the car will be parked on a driveway under a pine tree so...

Inspired by a thread on here about good value SIM cards I got a 12GB data card from Three for £26. I already have a myaudi account and apparently all I have to do to hook up with audiconnect is insert the PIN from the myaudi registration confirmation page in the MMI. My problem is where...

I had to leave this forum in September when I traded my A3 for an A4, although I do still dip in occasionally. I'm pleased to say that I am once again eligible to participate as my wife has just ordered an A3 cabrio, or, more accurately, we have just ordered it for my wife. She is indifferent...

Possibly a bit of an odd thread, but here goes anyway. When we take my mother in law out, my wife rides in the back. She complains that the ride is harsh and my son made a similar comment rather more diplomatically when we first got the car. So over Easter I rode in the back while my wife...

There have been a few threads about fuel economy and it seems that different owners can get varying consumption figures from the same engine. Mine is the 2.0 tfsi 190 PS. The demonstrator I drove with this engine had covered 3000 miles and the long term memory showed 37 mpg, so that was my...

This is the continuation of the story I began to tell on the "What have you done with your B9 today" thread. The intention had been to tell the whole story once it was complete, but elements leaked out yesterday so some aspects will be familiar to those who followed that. Briefly, the auto-dip...

Is anybody using these much? I thought I'd find them great fun, but the truth is I drive largely by engine note and this car is so damn quiet I can't hear clearly enough what it's doing. Also, the 3 lowest gears are so low the engine seems to overrev well before I sense it's time to change up...

Had my A4 Avant just a month and scraped it on Saturday. I was reversing out of a tight spot with sensors sounding from all 4 corners and looked at the wrong corner just long enough to bump this one. I found several videos on YouTube showing how plastic bumpers can be repaired, so I went along...

In the south east at least. Floret silver.

After the initial stage of euphoria with my new A4 Avant (I'm now in the secondary, more thoughtful stage) I realised that the documents wallet contained nothing about the warranty and breakdown cover. I rang the salesman who told me that MY17 models (like mine) no longer have the usual booklet...