Audi e-tron

Hi @donkey balls

Do you mind me asking where you went for the service?

Audi or elsewhere, my 50 Etron is due at 60000kms and Audi prices seem high for what you get.

Cant seem to find a consensus here on service. Thanks a lot

Service plan is 648 euro for 2 services including pollen filter replacement and one brake fluid change.

Or 249 euro for 3rd serivce on audi website (i am presuming this is the 3r service as i only have the car a few months).

I haven't had a chance to drop into an Audi dealer yet will be doing it next few days, Was talking to a lad in work who has an ID4 he left it into his local Vag dealer and waited while they serviced it took about 90 mins and was €220.

yep you'd want your head checked

Same here had a look at the q6 while dropping my car in for a service. Inside the interior is nice the wrap around screen i reckon would take some time to.get use to. This model in particular is €120k if its still there when collecting the car later on will park my car beside it just to see the size difference.

The best thing was when the missis was collecting me on the way out there was a GT in front of us,And she said oh thats a lovely car and colour.

Its an SUV, very few of them stand out. They have their own brands front grille and headlights and logo, but from there back they are more or less the same on the exterior no matter what the brand is.

Interesting what Audi in the US is offering. No word on UK/Ireland.

A6 etron being unveiled tomorrow if anyone is interested, saloon/hatchback and estate, see if it can get interest where the i5 and EQE simply haven't. I am looking forward to seeing it but expect its going to be too expensive to become a common sight.

I presume they now have sufficient reliability stats to show that motors are just not that likely to fail in that "up to 120,000 mile" window. A failure due to manufacture would likely have happened much earlier such that the cost to them of this extension is low.

Extending the battery warranty would be a brave move. Once the manufacturers have more longer term degradation stats, they may be able to guarantee against a curve : 80% of original range after 100k miles, 70% after 120k, or whatever gets them out to 10 years. Would help prevent the cliff edge of reaching "out of warranty" that makes people worry about second hand EV values such that they don't even want to buy new.

Maybe not Audi, but I feel someone will do it. Again, the economics of it would only need to be guaranteeing what is already pretty safe to offer. Such long warranties will be more reasonable as the rate of battery tech improvement slows. Right now there's no great gain in retaining long term stock or manufacturing of obsolete battery cells to cover long warranty period but as the car platforms stabilise such that the same standardized cells/pack sizes/ratings going into new cars can be used through the warranty period that's less of a concern. (Right now, I suppose I'd prefer to see the improvements keep coming and let the early adopters take the bulk of the depreciation risk.)

Will there be an ICE A6 released as well or in the future?

Will imagine the A6 strong pricing will be similar to the BMW i5, hopefully cheaper as I don’t think the i5 is selling well at all judging by BMW offering €6,000 off and 3.9% PCP

In the future, and it's already started with the new A5, ICE Audis will have odd numbers and EV Audis will have even numbers. So the next ICE saloon/avant will be called A7

No, saloons are dead it seems. I always had saloons, mainly 5 series and A6 but after having both a hatchback and an SUV now, I'll never have a saloon again, despite liking how they look. For me with dogs, they just don't work. And other people have their own reasons too, usually just ease of loading and not being able to take high loads. My cupra born, despite being a smallish hatch, is more practical than the big saloons I had and the etron is just another level again.

The new Audi A5 replaces both the A4 and A5 in the ICE lineup and is the same, a sport back and an Avant but no saloon.

To have a usp really against the m3/M5 and the mercedes AMG models......they are generally saloons, I know they are available in estate too but Audi want to be the ones you think of when thinking about estates I think

Anyone else getting the “not linked” message when connected to the car’s wifi hotspot?

Is that a 55 model?