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Aberdeenshire. £18,495 - open to offers. One careful enthusiast owner since new. Full main dealer service history. MOT until April 2020. Full front end coverage with XPEL Ultimate Paint Protection film. Run on V-Power/Momentum since new. Misano red pearlescent. Options: Bang & Olufsen sound...

So after a year and 9k miles in my S3 I'd sum it up like this - 5% of the time I wish I had a manual... but the other 95% I'm glad a picked S-tronic. If I was only driving it for fun at the weekend then I'd have a manual... and I would have bought a totally different car. It suits what I want...

I've had it give the brakes a wee jolt when passing a right turning vehicle in the central reservation on dual carriageways a couple of times. I'm willing to forgive it that though. An occasional false positive in a safety system is preferable than it not working when it really needs to.

I was just reading the thread about front radar sensors and was reminded of my Pre-sense Front saving my bacon last summer. Anyone else had a full on deployment help them avoid a collision? Mine was pulling back in behind a caravan after overtaking a line of traffic. I was anticipating slowing...

I had a venture shield kit (front bumper, lights, front 1/3 wings and bonnet, rear arches) applied to my S3 just after I took delivery and I'm very happy with it a year later. My mk6 golf was absolutely destroyed by stone chips by 18 months old - I had it re sprayed by a reputable body shop...

I'm getting chewbaccaing in reverse and squealing when driving forward. It's been doing it on and off since new (5 months old). Going to book it in some time soon to get it sorted, I hope.

Very good you might be getting mine soon to sort out the brake sqweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel! (good luck) ...and yes Aberdeen is swamped with the ****** things, especially red ones! Drove into the car park at work behind an identical one to mine last week. Should have seen it coming!

Limited evidence, hence my cautious wording and absence of bold claims. I have re-read my comments and I think I was pretty clear about that. Limited evidence but I'm erring on the side of caution and the manufacturer's recommendation. I'm sorry if that aggravates you so. Until someone devises a...

Ordered 2nd week in Feb and told build week 18 28th April plus 4 to 5 weeks for production and delivery to Aberdeen. Emailed them on 12th April to see if the build week was locked in and got a reply from admin asking me to call to arrange handover. Picked it up the following Friday :) It was...

"Premium" is "normal" in the UK and is 95RON. The higher octane stuff is generally called "super" grade. V-Power, Momentum 99 etc.

Based on what evidence? I seems quite plausible to me that it could make a difference as it seems to in many small displacement turbocharged engines. It's surely a question of whether it makes significant enough of a difference to warrant it and that's probably going to come down to personal...

Shell is pretty handy for me and they do a good coffee and Danish for £3 so I stick with them :) I wish I could remember who did the fuel economy tests. It was a well conducted experiment with Vauxhall Astra VXRs running different fuels, they looked at dyno outputs and fuel consumption and came...

I've read that Momentum 99 gets its high octane rating via a high bio-ethanol content which gives the fuel a much lower calorific value and really nails your fuel consumption. Any idea if that's true?

Okay this makes a bit more sense now. What country are you based in? In the UK 95RON is classed as premium but it's generally the lowest grade if fuel you can buy, I've certainly never seen a lower grade of fuel anywhere I use. Hence why I'm basing my 4% on the difference in cost of premium to...

3.9% increase in efficiency required, hardly "amazing" nor was it the main motivation. I don't recall anyone saying anything about reliability. As Audi state 95RON is an acceptable minimum it seems ridiculous to suggest that using it may affect your warranty. A lot of words are being interpreted...

I was told I would get regular updates on my build. This consisted of a phone call asking when I would like to collect the car, the earliest they could do was Wednesday. "THIS WEDNESDAY?" Was my reply regarding my car which was not due to be built for another month. I was informed it was...

This is also my understanding. Furthermore I don't see any logic in the concept of filling up with 98RON "now and again" as you are providing the car with an inconsistent octane rating resulting in the ECU having to frequently alter engine timing to inhibit knocking every time you switch back to...

Correct. I will do some more exhaustive troubleshooting in the next couple of days. Different sources, coding etc and see what happens. I think the file was coded as a 192kbps MP3 (Amazon download). Happens with other tracks on my SD but need to make a note of them. I will report back when I've...

Checked mine out this evening with a track on my SD card that I know causing crackling (Mad Rush by Philip Glass if you must know, very high brow) from the high range speakers (A pillar). I got no crackling when playing back the same track from CD. Looking like a codec issue?...

Happy to hear you're not having any issues. I'm pretty sure I've been getting it with CDs too.