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New A4 owner: first impressions, Bentley manual justification, extrakey cost at the dealer,
Hi there,
I finally got ahold of my 2003 A4 Avant 1.8T, it took 3 month to ship it from NJ/Penn State. First impressions: Lots of buttons to dig through: Took me quite a while how to turn the rear wiper off when I picked the car from customs yesterday. The car came without an owner's manual, so I resorted to buying an owner's manual/maintenance manual combo locally. I pushed the steering wheel all the way in, but the only way to get my hands fully extended was to tilt the seat backwards. Could not find an upright position with hands fully extended where I could reach the clutch. I guess I'll have to get used to porsche-like semi reclined seating. Not such a big deal. I'm pondering the want vs. need for Bentley manual giving that I will be only doing simple tasks covered in the manual I've bought leaving anything from oil change onward complexity wise to the service department to handle. Do advise if my Bentley manual driven edufication warrants the cost of the manual, please. Aside from 15" steel wheels for [studded] winter tires I plan to do absolutely zero tuning on the car as I see no need and I'm not a fart-can exhaust kind of guy. The awesome sound insulation allows to rip all the way to the redline whenever situation calls for it. Maybe I'll install a stiffer rear sway bar eventually (if I get the car to produce any body roll, so far it's been composed no matter what I threw at it). That would require way stickier rubber than ContriProContacts so that's not likely to happen any time soon. How much did you pay for an extra key in the States, UK, Canada, etc? (My A4 came with exactly 1 key) My apologies for removing a 5SP quattro avant from the States: they must be hard to come by. Locals share the preference of Americans for automatics while I see no merit of automatic+turbo combo, and, besides, in contrast with my previously owned subarus the lever action is crisp and the throws are short. Awesome job audi. It's a pleasure to shift. Thanks. |
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