Considering a 2000 or 2001 A4 avant

[Taka Mizutani]

Jon-
No massive throttle lag with your old A4?
 The B6 and B7 1.8T automatics all suffer from massive throttle lag- try to
pull out quickly
in traffic and mash the throttle and absolutely _nothing_ happens for a good
second. I thought
originally that it was the ESP activating, but even with ESP off, it still
does the same thing.
 The normally aspirated 3.0 and 3.2 engined cars don't suffer from this
problem, so I can only
surmise that it has something to do with the combination of turbo and
automatic. The allroad
also suffers from this, but to a much lesser extent (I think the greater
displacement and power
output help here).
 Taka

 On 10/13/05, Jon Linkov <jon at audiclubna.org> wrote:
>
> My wife and I leased a 2001 1.8t tip avant for 3 years and it really was
> nice. Yes, an autobox with a 170 hp turbo isn't THE fastest car out there,
> but I really don't give a darn about having the FASTEST car out there. It
> was plenty quick for merging, passing, etc. Sure, maybe you have to pay
> attention when driving and plan your quick lane changes, but it never hung
> me out to dry.
>
> The steering-wheel mounted tip buttons are great.
>
> We never had a problem with the major recall, and it seems by '01 Audi had
> figured out the big problems with the control arms (at least on our car).
> FWIW, my 1996 A4q has gone through 2 replacements (3 sets total)..all paid
> for by AoA.
>
> I think by '01 Audi figured out the big faults so, aside from that giant
> recall (what engine part was it?) the car, in my experience, was solid.
> The
> 2002 redesign went back to poor Audi reliability. They didn't straighten
> that out until the 2004 models.
>
> Jon