Considering a 2000 or 2001 A4 avant

[Jon Linkov]

Not enough to annoy/notice.

Of course, I drive a heck of a lot of cars each year...at least 60 different
types. What people will find as negatives with their daily driver I will
tend to overlook, since there¹s PLENTY of worse vehicles out there than an
A4 1.8tq with a tiptronic.


On 10/14/05 7:42 AM, "Taka Mizutani" <t44tqtro at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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