Recently taken delivery of an A4 tecknik , and despite a reasonable test drive finding the car easy to drive reasonably comfortable although a tad front heavy and a bit of understeer. I chose it much to my surpirse over a BMW 320 ED.
But I am begining to regret the choice!
The electrical parking brake is a Gimmick to over come a problem that must only be in the minds of Audi, its bad, to slow to respond and late in disengaging, with of course no driver feel or input, result often lurching starts as the brake are still on as power is applied to the drive train. Or is it only for Miss Diasy's driver and limp wrists ?
The stop start system , well it often fails to re-start the engine , taking several goes, and on occasion turning the engine over but the engine failing to start, leaving one in at least an embarresing situation getting beeped, but at worst in decidly dangerous situations , like this morning i the middle of a roundabout. When this situation occurs one has to restart manually.
Now Audi Stansted have said to date , no faults logged , they now have the car agian but i suspect there will not be a cure.
I see elsewhere these problems seem to have some history, albeit not common.
The A4 S line i had as loan car didnt seem to know what to do with its self stoppig starting every couple of secounds
The A5 I now have on loan , seems to have the same issues as mine.
I see Car magazine , reported "KIA TOYOTA AUDI if you cant make it work like BMW , don't !Removed! bother " but why should I turn it off , the car is not cheap end , and it should work, its certianly works perfectly on my wifes Honda Jaz , first time every time, and on that basis I presumed an up market German would to , but its seems not
