Recent content by Cantata

I've got a set of Thule bars on an earlier Avant. They were actually a very good price, bought direct from Thule although that was before Brexit.

Bluetooth on my 2012 S-Line failed during lockdown, when car was not used for weeks and the battery got rather low. On mine Bluetooth simply won't recognise any phone. The software interface looks like Bluetooth itself may be OK, perhaps a problem with the car's bluetooth aerial. I have wondered...

I thought I had the same problem in mine when away on holiday a while ago. Eventually I realised there was nothing wrong at all, I was simply hearing different road noise from unfamiliar surfaces. Like yours. the noise came and went, and for me that was down to the road surface changing.

I have a 2012 version (which I thought is 205hp) and usually get 52-54mpg on a very long run. Otherwise averages 45-47.

I have the same car, same year, had it since it was a year old, and what you describe is surely normal behaviour for this type of box? A bit like the old Daf drive which worked on belts and conical cogs, revs go up and down as the load changes within each gear. My car has always done it, runs...

I’m still interested in getting my 2012 car updated. Did this ever get resolved for the OP?

I would guess it’s something to do with the drain from the wipers area?

I'll try that next time out. Up to now I've left the directional set until the thermostat opens, then go back to Auto.

Sounds possible doesn't it. Not really worth investigating on its own, though. Thanks for the thought.

Thanks NHN. So what I have is presumably what you describe as the 'aux heater' behind the normal matrix. Odd though that it doesn't make itself known without using the air direction buttons. Still, nice to find an extra useful feature after 8 years of ownership!

I have an A6 Avant SE, 3.0Tdi, lovely car, coming up to 10 years old, all good and only 73k miles on it. After owning it for 8 years and always suffering lack of heat for the first 20 minutes or so on winter mornings, my wife discovered something the other day. On one such cold morning, she...

Possibly fragments of chalk in the water? Doesn’t take much to block the very fine jets. I soak the jet units in de-scaler every few months, keeps them clear.

If it’s any help, I have an A6 with the 8-speed Multitronic box and it does not hesitate between shifts, at all. In fact you won’t even notice it shifting.

I have a 2012 3.0 S-Line Avant with standard wheels, I also found the original-fit Pirellis very noisy. I now use Goodyear EfficientGrip and find them excellent in all respects, including certainly very quiet compared with others. My son runs an A3 and he's been so impressed with my tyres that...

A rear wheel out of balance?