noises.. you want your car to make all of the right noises.. and none of the strange ones.. well a few strange ones have started in the audi a4
Perhaps only happened 3 times... but when parking and turning the steering wheel sharply, you get this horrible noise.. almost like a poor type of horn being hit.. what is that..
also another irritating noise.. it's as if there is some static on the radio..
Sunday, 16 November 2008
Tuesday, 11 November 2008
Audi Economics - Fuel and Tax
From the maths I did before getting the Audi A4, I knew it would be a significant saving over running the XC70 from Volvo. However with all of these good ideas, you never really know if the theory will work in practise.
One big saving area was in fuel consumption. Now with the diesel price dropping, the saving is less.. but is it significant, now after 1000miles - how is it working out. The car is saying it is making 44mpg on average since new.. now I don't know how the average works though.
One thing that used to frustrate me with the Volvo was that despite the big 70litre tank, you always felt you were filling the car up. My weekly business mileage was 4 round trips of 36miles and then one trip of around 240.. now in reality this seemed to use up the tank !! despite the average being about 35mpg. With the Audi, I can make 7 round trips of 36 miles plus the 240 trip.. on less than 60 litres. The fact I don't have to visit the petrol station every week.. is already a telling the story of saving money.. I always seemed to be at the station before.. with some bills at £85+.. I just filled up at Sainsbury using a voucher and got 58litres for under £60. So approx £30-40 saving per week less versus 6 months ago.
I am waiting for the end of the month to see if the tax saving will be identified. However tax saving I expect to be around £400 per month. So compared to this time 6 months, the total saving of tax and fuel must be well over £500 per month. There is no way the Volvo was worth £500 per month more than this Audi A4.
One big saving area was in fuel consumption. Now with the diesel price dropping, the saving is less.. but is it significant, now after 1000miles - how is it working out. The car is saying it is making 44mpg on average since new.. now I don't know how the average works though.
One thing that used to frustrate me with the Volvo was that despite the big 70litre tank, you always felt you were filling the car up. My weekly business mileage was 4 round trips of 36miles and then one trip of around 240.. now in reality this seemed to use up the tank !! despite the average being about 35mpg. With the Audi, I can make 7 round trips of 36 miles plus the 240 trip.. on less than 60 litres. The fact I don't have to visit the petrol station every week.. is already a telling the story of saving money.. I always seemed to be at the station before.. with some bills at £85+.. I just filled up at Sainsbury using a voucher and got 58litres for under £60. So approx £30-40 saving per week less versus 6 months ago.
I am waiting for the end of the month to see if the tax saving will be identified. However tax saving I expect to be around £400 per month. So compared to this time 6 months, the total saving of tax and fuel must be well over £500 per month. There is no way the Volvo was worth £500 per month more than this Audi A4.
Monday, 10 November 2008
Audi A4 and water
Well the Volvo XC70 didn't handle water very well, so when the rains came this weekend I was pretty nervous. We went out in the Ford Focus first and managed to avoid most of the water, until we were confronted with a flooded A road.. queue of traffic either side of the flood as the cars went through one by one. Eventually plucked up courage to drive through the flood - I was holding my breath and kept the engine revving..slipping the clutch.
Given the amount of water on the road yesterday, I decided to play safe with Audi this morning - but was then stunned by the amount of mud on the roads from the previous days floods, I continued to drive around the flood roads. I do not want to put this Audi at risk.
Given the amount of water on the road yesterday, I decided to play safe with Audi this morning - but was then stunned by the amount of mud on the roads from the previous days floods, I continued to drive around the flood roads. I do not want to put this Audi at risk.
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