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I don't usually have trouble getting comfortable in cars having rented many different cars over the years without issue and having owned several Audi's not experienced problems before. I am distinctly unimpressed with modern Audi vehicles and decided to buy a B7 RS4 to be a) comfortable and b) no annoying tech that doesn't work properly.

Awful situation to be in, I suggest you keep a diary of the changes you make to the seat position and what affect it has as it is easy to lose yourself with adjustments. For me, I ended up extending the foot rest with wooden blocks as this reduced the impact of the offset pedals a bit, intention was to closer align the footrest with the throttle pedal. The other change that helped me was extending the front of the seat squab out to support the back of the thigh. I am rather stunned at just how !Removed! awful the seats and pedal positions are, considering how long people have been designing cars, !Removed! it up this badly is unbelievable.

How do you stop the mirrors from randomly folding in as you are washing the car? I looked in the manual, worse than useless, not seeing anything on the web either. Just want to avoid getting my fingers crushed while washing the car. I have managed to get them to fold out with the drivers door open, shut the door so you can wash the car and they close again automatically a while later. I have no confidence they wont fold in when I am washing the mirrors and crush my hand or fingers. Any suggestions?

You will be lucky to find a single wingback seat let alone a cover. You would probably be better off talking to someone who retrims car interiors.

How worn are the tyres? This is normal behaviour and gets worse/more noticeable as the tyres wear.

Pricing up a 2021 S6 front discs and pads on ECP for Brembo parts is approx £400, not sure who makes OEM but £1600 is a lot.

Something worth trying is to extend the seat base front extension in addition to 2x18mm ply on the foot rest, just the ply wasn't comfortable but extending the front of the seat has made a big improvement in comfort. Still not perfect but a lot better.

I have a standard S6 Avant 21 plate, the one thing the base S6 does not have is the rear wheel steering which I believe the higher trim levels do have. Also not sure which seats you have experienced but I and others have found the driving position to be uncomfortablecat best with the sports seats, damn right painful at worst. Last thing to be aware of, the S6 is tiptronic not a dsg type gearbox. Everyone raves about the ZF8 but quite frankly IMO Audi have ballsed this up badly.

Look at the rating plate with the tyre pressures on (by catch on the drivers side door pillar), this will tell you the wheel/tyre combos that will fit as standard and doesn't knock the speedo out, etc. If none of these work then go off-piste with calculators and the malarkey. As for wheels, part numbers, etc - you need to find the parts diagrams online for your car as these will list part numbers for the OEM wheels, obs check with Audi the part number is correct before buying so you get the right wheels.

Regarding the auto close of the tailgate on the Avant, be careful what you wish for applies. It seems (and this is a guess) that my Avant had this enabled, the end result was having the tailgate close on me on several occasions, multiple times each occasion without any logic to it whilst loading up. Being the filling in a tailgate sandwich isn't particularly nice and it does hurt. The final straw was the damn thing closing unexpectedly in the dark as I was walking towards it, result was a concussion headache for a week. There are dim downwards facing lights (when the tailgate is open) but nothing that faces away that someone who is walking towards the rear of the car can see. My old b7 Avant had the rear facing lamp but the C8 does not! So many valuable features have been binned. At the end of day, users need to know whether doors and tailgates are open or closed and be confident they in the same position they expect them to be in. Regarding pressure washing the sunroof, I would expect it to be fine but go lightly on the seals and gaps. They are designed to stay sealed when driving at high speed but everything has a design limit, my other car has a sunroof and gets jetwashed regularly with the nozzle about 3 foot away and no issues.

I found a couple threads on the issue hence the question. https://www.ttforum.co.uk/threads/bag-in-coolant-tank-reservoir-bursting.2030154/ https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=2056688 Would not put it past Audi to keep doing something daft like this and leave owners to carry the can. If my car has this I will get it removed if it has potential to cause issues, I do not need any more hassle from the S6 POS edition.

Read about this affecting VW's, etc so is this a potential problem for the C8 A6/S6 vehicles or has someone had a bit of common sense and designed this problem out?

That message is a complete pain in the preverbial, I had the same issue and ended up doing the same thing of logging out of the account, app, etc. Modern Audis are not user friendly, they (Audi) think they are being clever but they just annoy anyone with half a brain.

I was wondering this, good to have some else shed a bit more light on the issue. Could you provide a photo of your seats as I find identifying them a bit confusing. Happy to change the drivers seat if it solves this problem.

I have the supersport seats, you cannot lower the front independently, the rear can be raised relative to the front but this also raises the overall seat height. Can't believe Audi can get this so wrong.

Exactly the position I am in, I have a wedge cushion to try and reduce the pressure the seat creates on the back of the thighs near the knee. Really just need to set the seat base flatter but the adjustments don't allow that. I suspect it is down to pedal offset which is not something that can be fixed. Car is a pile of dog doo-doo.

My 2021 S6 Avant collects water in the tailgate and then has a waterfall each side the boot is opened. I am not sure if the roof spoiler fills or if it is the small blades either side. Basically it is more !Removed! design on a car that is a big pile of !Removed!, all the journos who reviewed the car and said it is wonderful should hand their cards in.

Definitely terminal, I think the gangle pin in the giggle box hiding under the air filter is shot. Only fix is to scrap it, sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Am I doing this right?

Do check for any DTC's to see if there any dodgy sensors, if none are shown it could be the siren battery backup failing, the siren isn't intelligent and diagnosis is usually by swapping with a known good one or just replacing batteries in the old one. If the siren is as I remember, you need to cut it open to get to the batteries so not an easy DIY job. Just my 10c's worth.

45,000 miles so far this year, I am curious why the huge mileage, taxi driver or just long distance commuting? Firstly, what sort of driving are you doing? Is it all motorways or stop/start traffic as that will impact the amount servicing needed. If you are on motorways all day then use the flexible servicing where the car may well stretch the service intervals as modern oils are much better than they used to. If I commuted the 70 miles each way to the office, 5 days a week that is 33,000 miles p.a. and 3-4 services over a year on the fixed servicing schedule. And please tell us you are using an indie rather than a stealer for the servicing, the latter will think it is Xmas every 7 weeks.

The length is very noticeable so the higher trim variants i.e. black edition and vorsprung.. have rear wheel steer and probably makes the vehicle length less noticeable. Width wise, it is wide no doubt about that. Most small roundabouts aren't an issue if you are careful, never taken it in a multi-story so cannot advise on that though I expect you would need to be careful. Other thing is the slab sided design does make knowing where the lowest parts of the bumpers are relative to objects difficult hence the cameras are useful, I managed to knock down a low wall almost as soon as I got it home, 8 years at the house and never tapped anything with 2 different cars until the C8 came along...

Have you tried Dialynx nr Swindon?

Best of luck with getting the rattles fixed, this is a known issue but expect to be fobbed off. Mine has been into the dealer twice for dash rattles, the fixes lasted a week tops and I have a little pile of broken tabs collected from the footwells. If you Google Audi A6 C8 dash rattles there is a guide for a bit of diy fixing of the dash and get a decent set of trim tools if you decide to have a go.

Any particular reason why you are selling this amazing car?

Yup, whoever signed off the driver setup must be working for a competitor as is so awful. I suffer with pain in the left leg and my conclusion is that you can't lower the front of the seat relative to the back independently, my old S4 had electric Recaro sports seats where you could. This allowed the seat to be low and flatter, the current crop of Audi seats only allow the rear to raised but this also raises the seat more creating pressure on the rear of the thigh. The wood on the footrest is to try and align both feet as bizarrely my legs are the same length like the majority of the human race which Audi obviously missed. The whole car just screams cost reductions everywhere and the seats are no different where adjustments have been reduced, personally the car is a pile of junk that I regret buying.