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    Tyre Advice Needed For Audi A6 Bitdi

    I have used Dunlops on my Jaguar, they are not bad, but alittle on the soft side( they don't last very long depending on your driving style). I have used Vredestain only once and only winter tyres, quite good but Nokian winters are better in my opinion.
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    Got 50mpg on BiTDI

    The figs are off the on board computer, so yes they could be out. When I reach 3000 miles I intend to do a 1000 mile check mileage against actual fuel purchased so that I can have an average which I can compare with the on board long term memory.
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    Got 50mpg on BiTDI

    I did say might do 55mpg and I did say in economy mode.
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    Got 50mpg on BiTDI

    I have 2800 miles on the clock now and have seen steady improvment in MPG, started at 36 and slowly increased to 42 then 46 and on a recent run down the M6 got 51. The best speed appears to be about 65 mph, at 55 you loose 8th gear as its 50.2/1000rpm. I think with a few more thousand miles...
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    Tyre Advice Needed For Audi A6 Bitdi

    I agree with Elan2s, normally on bad pot holes you get tyre failure, complete deflation. If you have a slow puncture as a result of the pot hole I would advise that you look at the inside rim of the wheel as this is the weekest part of the wheel when subjected to the sort of impact that a pot...
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    A6 Texts

    Thanks for that. It seems to be my only option to change my phone for one with rSAP. Pehaps I'll wait for a while and see, I get the phone calls so I can probably manage with out the texts although it would be nice. Thanks once again for the answer.
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    A6 Texts

    Hi All, I'm sure someone on the forum can help, I have an A6 Bitdi built week 16 this year. Great car and all work well except I can not seem to receive text messages. Th e phone i have is a Sony Z1 compact and links to the car fine I also have a data sim in the dash. On the MMI I can see the...
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    How to identify current A6

    The easiest way I know of is to look at the boot lid, the C6 chassis had a chrome strip which runs across the width of the boot lid, as far as I know the C7 does not have this trim.