Hello
I've just changed our faithful A4 b8 Avant (2010) to a B9 avant (2016) and to be honest I'm a little disappointed but wondered if I'm not making a fair comparison. Our old b8 was a 2.0 tdi (caga) SE model and we'd done 175k miles in it! The only reason we swapped it was we had a steering problem and one night the steering wheel completely locked up whilst my wife was driving and this left her very shaken, she lost all confidence in the car and I too didn't want her driving it, the garage said it needed a new steering rack so as we'd had it for so long we decided on a newer car instead.
Now there's no doubting the new car is lovely inside, I love everything about the way it looks outside and the new tech inside is great. My problem is compared to the old car the ride is quite firm and twitchy and you can feel a slight vibration through the pedals/gearstick whereas in the old one you couldn't. Also this new one feels a lot slower than the old car did too.
I got this b9 as we wanted a manual (my wife doesn't like automatics!) it's the 150bhp one which I thought would be OK as the b8 was 143bhp and pulled like a train.
So old b8 (143bhp, 2.0tdi SE) floated down the motorway, pulled strong and no vibration from gearstick/pedals/steering wheel even with 175k on the clock.
New b9 (150bhp, 2.0tdi s-line) firm ride and twitchy on the motorway, feels sluggish and you get a vibration from the gearstick and the pedals. It is amazingly quiet though and feels very refined.
So am I comparing apples to oranges? Is the b9 a totally different thing to what I had before?
Many thanks for any info/thoughts.
I've just changed our faithful A4 b8 Avant (2010) to a B9 avant (2016) and to be honest I'm a little disappointed but wondered if I'm not making a fair comparison. Our old b8 was a 2.0 tdi (caga) SE model and we'd done 175k miles in it! The only reason we swapped it was we had a steering problem and one night the steering wheel completely locked up whilst my wife was driving and this left her very shaken, she lost all confidence in the car and I too didn't want her driving it, the garage said it needed a new steering rack so as we'd had it for so long we decided on a newer car instead.
Now there's no doubting the new car is lovely inside, I love everything about the way it looks outside and the new tech inside is great. My problem is compared to the old car the ride is quite firm and twitchy and you can feel a slight vibration through the pedals/gearstick whereas in the old one you couldn't. Also this new one feels a lot slower than the old car did too.
I got this b9 as we wanted a manual (my wife doesn't like automatics!) it's the 150bhp one which I thought would be OK as the b8 was 143bhp and pulled like a train.
So old b8 (143bhp, 2.0tdi SE) floated down the motorway, pulled strong and no vibration from gearstick/pedals/steering wheel even with 175k on the clock.
New b9 (150bhp, 2.0tdi s-line) firm ride and twitchy on the motorway, feels sluggish and you get a vibration from the gearstick and the pedals. It is amazingly quiet though and feels very refined.
So am I comparing apples to oranges? Is the b9 a totally different thing to what I had before?
Many thanks for any info/thoughts.