allroad tire recomendation

[Alan Pritchard]

Silly question, just out of interest, what does chipping the transmission
do? Does it just make it hold higher revs?

Best Regards,
Alan Pritchard

Network Administrator
Mechanical Design Engineer
Seaeye Marine Ltd.
+44 (0)1329 289000

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Brett Dikeman [mailto:brett at cloud9.net] 
Sent:	19 July 2004 15:42
To:	Steve R; audi group
Subject:	Re: allroad tire recomendation

At 11:10 PM -0400 7/18/04, Steve R wrote:
>I've been watching some of the recent tire threads.
>
>Any recommendations for the Allroad. I'm not too happy how the car 
>drives as a whole. Feels like a 70's caddy.

Well, it is a +4,000lb, air-suspension equipped station wagon :-)  Is 
it different from the model you test drove?

As David pointed out, the tires are not designed for high performance 
driving, they're designed to be good street tires that are also good 
off-road/in the snow.

Has the suspension been on the lowest setting?  I rode in an allroad 
recently that was- at least a year or two old, and it felt pretty 
good; it was only for a few miles, but certainly not a wallowing 
wildebeest.  No idea if it had any suspension modifications.

>  Brakes are soft. Feels nothing like an A6 which feels much tighter 
>in comparison.

Again, the allroad weighs quite a bit more than the standard A6 avant.

The brakes may need a little time to break in.  The dealer should 
have taken the car on a test drive, although many don't.  I think 
anything between 5-15 miles is typical.

>I'm even starting to think the car wasn't prepped or checked. I 
>picked up the car 3 days after the dealer got it in.

When you pick up the car has little to do with whether it was prepped 
or not.  Former lister and former Ira Audi salesman Joe Fritz told me 
he'd often prep a car right after it rolled off the trailer and the 
customer would take delivery that evening.

If the car rides like a whale, drives even worse, and you suspect it 
wasn't prepped properly- check tire pressures COLD (sitting in the 
driveway, hasn't been driven for an hour).  Use a good gauge, such as 
a digital gauge(believe it or not, the brookstone/radio-shack/etc 
units are virtually dead on with race gauges costing ten times as 
much or more).  You may find the tires were inflated in colder or 
warmer weather when the car rolled off the line, and the dealer 
didn't check it.

>On another note, Anyone rechip the transmission. Would like to 
>rechip the the engine but the is leased.

...in which case you really shouldn't chip it, but at least wait 
until you've gone past the break-in point.

Brett
-- 
"They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Ben Franklin
http://www.users.cloud9.net/~brett/
_______________________________________________
quattro mailing list
quattro at audifans.com
http://www.audifans.com/mailman/listinfo/quattro