The centre caps were sprayed black from the standard grey, thought there would be too much red IMO, so only got the Audi Rings and chrome surrounds done.
The car looks fab - thought mine was stealth!!
Nice detail! Mine lasted about 10 mins then it rained!
Thanks Yeah really loving this stealth look, had the day off work, so thought I may aswell do the beast justice and give it a good detail! Have you racked up many miles since the weekend?
Start stop is intrusive and a pain at junctions.
+1, it's hateful. I understand why it's there but wish it could be turned off permanently. Sort of thing you'd accept in a Prius, not an S3!
Important question
What does it state your cars description as on your insurance document? Mine says Audi A3 S3 tfsi 1984cc 2013- (this is what there system came up with after I gave them my Reg)
Now today when I was searching for new insurance that would account for my mods, a few insurance companies called it Audi S3 fsi T Quattro and those quotes were about twice as much.
What is going on??? What does it say on everyone elses insurance documents?
Cheers for that, it is dodgy though as further down the document it just describes the car as an Audi A3 no mention of S3 unlike further up the document.
Im confident its right though as like you say its down as Audi A3 S3 tfsi and I gave them my reg and all the other vehicle details were spot on.
But insurance companies love riggling out of paying up if the worst happens.
My S3 played up tonight. Had it in dynamic & manual mode (s-tronic) took off from the lights and went to up shift with the paddles when the revs were high. Anyway think the stronic wanted to shift at the same time... Result was the car didn't find a gear at all! Was like driving a manual and screwing up a gear change. Was left at 80kmPH with no car in gear. Took me a couple of seconds to get it back in gear by trying the paddles again.
Has anyone else experienced this?
Interesting...I had a similar incident (twice ) but on Efficiency mode not driving hard. It happened both times on pullaway, mid first gear, where it seemed the car suddenly went into Neutral (like pushing the clutch it while accelerating), until the car like 'reselected' the gear before continuing on it merry way...
I am only on 1000kms so far but this hasn't happened for the last 300kms ...will monitor...
My S3 played up tonight. Had it in dynamic & manual mode (s-tronic) took off from the lights and went to up shift with the paddles when the revs were high. Anyway think the stronic wanted to shift at the same time... Result was the car didn't find a gear at all! Was like driving a manual and screwing up a gear change. Was left at 80kmPH with no car in gear. Took me a couple of seconds to get it back in gear by trying the paddles again.
Has anyone else experienced this?
DSG in Eco mode - yes, the car does deselect the gear and run it in "coasting" mode (neutral), so I would expect a delay when it reselects a gear to get out of neutral. Eco mode will also do other stuff like turn off the air con compressor etc, to save fuel.
Re finding a false neutral while manually shifting - I have heard of this, it's more common on the downshifts rather than the upshifts, say you're slowing down, the DSG box automatically downshifts for you from 5 to 4, but at precisely the same moment you pull the downshift paddle or stick, it thinks you're asking for a double downshift, so tries to give you 5 to 3. But as 5 and 3 are on the same shaft it can't do a shaft clutch swop, so has to deselect 5 and engage 3, all of which takes a little over a second, and in that time you are not in a gear.
Can't see why it won't happen on the upshifts it tries to shift from 3 to 4, but you manually upshift at precisely the exact moment, so it tries to give you a double upshift 3 to 5, but again, those gears are on the same shaft, so there is a delay while it sorts that out.
As standard, even though you are in M the box will upshift at red line /max torque (depending which gear you are in) so it is possible there was a double shift request going on.
The question though is, can you try and reproduce it, and does it eventually give you a gear without you having to give it an additional command, like pull the paddle, pull/push the stick, or change from D/S ?
Either: Leave it to upshift on its own accord at red line (after which you can play with paddles to your hearts content!) - or - manually shift with the paddles a few hundred rpm shy of the red line (where you achieve max torque, so those few hundred rpm to the red line isn't actually producing anymore useful power).Maybe be I should just leave it in auto mode, but manual mode is fun when the car is set to dynamic.
Hi wonder if anyone can help, got mine on Monday Does anyone know how to get the album art to come up on the MMI via ipod and or SD card ?? Tried everything i can find so far but no joy ?
Interesting...I had a similar incident (twice ) but on Efficiency mode not driving hard. It happened both times on pullaway, mid first gear, where it seemed the car suddenly went into Neutral (like pushing the clutch it while accelerating), until the car like 'reselected' the gear before continuing on it merry way...
I am only on 1000kms so far but this hasn't happened for the last 300kms ...will monitor...
Hi thanks for the reply. I don't have a colour on my cable, but its more regarding the sd card, some album covers appear others don't ?
A few first impressions....
The led headlights are sensational. Excellent penetration on full beam and great spread on dipped. Nice colour of light too. Very white natural hue.
Stronic is superb. Auto mode seems the most intelligent.
Start stop is intrusive and a pain at junctions.
Brakes are good and very progressive. Abs is excellent, tested already.
Fuel consumption is crap. Average is 17.8mpg but I am using it as intended.
Continentals in the dry seem fine, but the spring rate is tuned for comfort and not turn in bite....
Steering feedback non existent. Turn in and hope it will grip. Biggest flaw of th car IMHO.
As a package though seems great. Super sport seats are like a limousine in comfort terms, really impressive.
Mmi and the whole tech pack will rake a while to fully exploit.
And finally for now, the b&o sounds awesome playing tron by daft punk. Great album for demonstrating the b&o....
+1, it's hateful. I understand why it's there but wish it could be turned off permanently. Sort of thing you'd accept in a Prius, not an S3!
On private road of course
I also like the led lights - they also appear to do a sort of "follow me" when you turn left or right - brightness is great and had no complaints from drivers coming other way so assume they don't dazzle like other lights - plus they'll use a lot less power/fuel than other lights
I'll be driving mine 80 miles a day 70-80mph on the motorway and well off it who knows!
I'm hoping for about 30+ when being careful!
Hoping......
oddly its easy driving the s3 at 60mph of the motorway and 90mph+ lol but not so easy at 70-80 as it seems to hit the sweet sport when the wolf has awoken