19" wheels on S-line with Audi configurator??

Guys, Hi

Last week had an A4 A-Line Avant (Ice Silver) delivered with 19" 5 arm double spoke alloys.

Visually the car is stunning, alloys look great, DRLs look aggresive, body styling especially front nose is great.
You can't have the 19" wheels with the S-Line 30mm lowered suspension, but you can have the wheels with the 20mm lowered suspension.

However, the drive is dissappointing on these tyres. The tyres are 'tracky', i.e they tend to follow camber of the road and in country lanes it feels as though the car pulls off into the natural ruts of the road rather than being fully placed by the driver.
The new diesel 2.0 engine is very linear in its power delivery, so although it's incredibly quiet and a total dream around town and normal driving. It lacks the urgency/immediate thrust of the old Audi 2.0 diesel.
Questioning myself now, that I didnt go for the 3.0 litre or at very least the upgraded 200BHP 2.0 version.

Also under heavy acceleration the front end gets light and grip of the front wheels is decreased, losing that confidence you should have in your cars traction. Again, this is under more demanding driving speeds, and in normal use the car is a fantastically composed drive.

Gone for full leather/sat nav which are must have's in my view to improve the interior. Interior looks fab, but very very busy dashboard needs some getting used to.

Gear box in 1st gear is notchy, but expecting that to work itself lose over next 5k miles and famous offset clutch is no problem at all, resulting in a very comfortable driving position.
General interior plastics are of acceptable quality but not breathtaking.

The S-Line has black headlining as standard, so in my view no need for the tinted windows as rear windows already look very dark with standard clear glass.

Overall I'd give the car an 8 out of 10

Guys, Hi

Know how useful being able to see other peoples car pics were for me, so hope these interest ya all. Cheers.

Be interested to hear how your test drive went... :thumbsup:

For me, the plastics are right on the borderline of acceptable.
Oh yes, forgot to mention that sat nav at £2k should go down to full postcode level, which it currently does not.

(I just spec'd the 19" wheels and the suspension was defaulted to 20mm.)

Cheers.

That looks very nice. Avant is better looking than the saloon

Looks awesome!

audidream said:

Guys, Hi

Know how useful being able to see other peoples car pics were for me, so hope these interest ya all. Cheers.

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Fantastic looking car there Audidream. The first time I saw ther B8 Avant, I hated it, but clearly it's a grower.

WhiteA4 make sure you post some pics up when you get yours, sounds like you've got some great options with that car. :thumbsup:

Marc1 said:

WhiteA4 make sure you post some pics up when you get yours, sounds like you've got some great options with that car. :thumbsup:

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Just about to post some up!