TimD
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Thought I'd jump on the bandwagon to share my experiences with my new car which was delivered today.
The car was sourced through Select Car Leasing, who scoured Audi dealers to find someone who could match (or get close to) a good lease deal that had been available in the Autumn, but I'd not been ready for.
As I'd been able to get the order number and the dealership name from the lease broker, I was able to track the car on yourAudi. It had obviously originally been a dealer order, because the original order date was early Nov, yet I had ordered on the 3oth Nov.
As the car is on a two year lease I have deliberately held back on the options. Optional extras on a leased car tend to simply have their cost spread over the 24 months, so it can soon really drive the total lease cost up.
The car is S4 Avant, with the only options being the 20 spoke 19" wheels, Navarra Blue metallic paint and the Audi Virtual Cockpit.
There's no posh hand over experience with a leased car. A very pleasant chap just turned up with the car, which was nice and clean (it had just been through the car wash, which will make some of you wince!), got me to sign some paperwork and that was that - he went off to catch the bus.
Very interesting first spot was that the tyres were not the expected Hankooks, but are Continental Sport Contact 6. So far, I think that all 19" wheeled S4s had Hankooks...
I can't do a worthwhile review of the options that others have done, as it is all pretty simple:
Virtual Cockpit - relatively speaking a bargain and opens up a bunch of extra tech
19" million spoke wheels - I did not like the 18" wheels or the options that are multi coloured, plus the million spoke wheels were cheap - only £275
Metallic paint - I knew I wanted Navarra Blue as soon as I saw it.
The other options which I would have liked, but did not go for in order to keep the cost under control were:
Matrix Lights via the Light & Vision pack - extra £500 - I suspect that they are brilliant, but I think the std LEDs will do me fine.
Carbon Atlas inlays £425 - I love a bit of carbon. But the alloy looks pretty nice
Foldy mirrors £325 - primarily this would have been because I am used to looking at my old car (BMW) and telling whether I had remembered to lock it by looking at the folded mirrors. I'll live without it
Hill Hold assist £75 - probably should have gone for this, as I did use it in my old BMW.
Red painted callipers £300 - would have looked cool. If I really want them, I'll do it myself...
Privacy glass £450 - I really flip/flop whether I like this or not, so decided not to go for it. Sometimes it looks a bit garish, I think - or makes an estate car look like a van.
So, If I had chosen that lot, it would have made my total cost over the 2 years £14, 875 rather than the current £12,800 - so not worth a 16% cost increase.
Can't post much in the way of driving impressions yet, as I've only driven it for about 10 miles. But it is fair to say that they were excellent...
The car was sourced through Select Car Leasing, who scoured Audi dealers to find someone who could match (or get close to) a good lease deal that had been available in the Autumn, but I'd not been ready for.
As I'd been able to get the order number and the dealership name from the lease broker, I was able to track the car on yourAudi. It had obviously originally been a dealer order, because the original order date was early Nov, yet I had ordered on the 3oth Nov.
As the car is on a two year lease I have deliberately held back on the options. Optional extras on a leased car tend to simply have their cost spread over the 24 months, so it can soon really drive the total lease cost up.
The car is S4 Avant, with the only options being the 20 spoke 19" wheels, Navarra Blue metallic paint and the Audi Virtual Cockpit.
There's no posh hand over experience with a leased car. A very pleasant chap just turned up with the car, which was nice and clean (it had just been through the car wash, which will make some of you wince!), got me to sign some paperwork and that was that - he went off to catch the bus.
Very interesting first spot was that the tyres were not the expected Hankooks, but are Continental Sport Contact 6. So far, I think that all 19" wheeled S4s had Hankooks...
I can't do a worthwhile review of the options that others have done, as it is all pretty simple:
Virtual Cockpit - relatively speaking a bargain and opens up a bunch of extra tech
19" million spoke wheels - I did not like the 18" wheels or the options that are multi coloured, plus the million spoke wheels were cheap - only £275
Metallic paint - I knew I wanted Navarra Blue as soon as I saw it.
The other options which I would have liked, but did not go for in order to keep the cost under control were:
Matrix Lights via the Light & Vision pack - extra £500 - I suspect that they are brilliant, but I think the std LEDs will do me fine.
Carbon Atlas inlays £425 - I love a bit of carbon. But the alloy looks pretty nice
Foldy mirrors £325 - primarily this would have been because I am used to looking at my old car (BMW) and telling whether I had remembered to lock it by looking at the folded mirrors. I'll live without it
Hill Hold assist £75 - probably should have gone for this, as I did use it in my old BMW.
Red painted callipers £300 - would have looked cool. If I really want them, I'll do it myself...
Privacy glass £450 - I really flip/flop whether I like this or not, so decided not to go for it. Sometimes it looks a bit garish, I think - or makes an estate car look like a van.
So, If I had chosen that lot, it would have made my total cost over the 2 years £14, 875 rather than the current £12,800 - so not worth a 16% cost increase.
Can't post much in the way of driving impressions yet, as I've only driven it for about 10 miles. But it is fair to say that they were excellent...