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I'm sure it'll connect to Bluetooth but you'll need an MMI connection lead to plug in your music device if you want high quality music reproduction. My 2017 doesn't much like using Bluetooth for music feed.

Mine is a straight 2.0D Ultra SE. As already stated by Envy, the "Ultra" badge is just indicating the low-emission engine that's fitted. RFL is £20 per YEAR!!! And my 15 mile drive to work (mix of urban and dual carriageway) gets me 50mpg, although on a recent trip from Swindon to Norwich pretty much all motorway got me 62mpg.

It's not a USB port, it's the MMI port which needs an adapter lead from Audi. I was given a twin pack of leads, one of which was MMI-to-Lightning (which I use), and I'm pretty sure the other is MMI-to-USB.

If you're worried about the DPF even whilst it's fine, get yourself some Forte DPF Cleaner from Amazon. It'll only cost around £15 and is just a fuel additive. I've had several friends who've ended up with DPF light staying on and the garage have told them it's a new DPF needed. When they've chucked a bottle of this through and gave the car a good thrashing, low and behold the light has gone out! And if it doesn't work, it's cost you £15.

No, not IN the centre arrest, but UNDER it. I don't think it's a USB port, but something slightly different which my dealer gave me an adapter lead to connect my iPhone with. Mine's only an Ultra SE aka peasant's spec :0)

It seems to me an awful lot of money for someone to have spent on a car (when it was new) only to spend six months or so driving around with a "service due" light on and not bother taking it in for service. If it was leased originally, there's a likelihood that the company/individual running the car would have been paying for maintenance as well, which wouldn't make sense. And if they hadn't paid for maintenance, then they would have been hit with a fine for returning the car to the lease company without it being serviced according to manufacturer's instructions. Why not try speaking to Audi Customer Services about it, and they may be able to check on whether it had actually been serviced but just not had the handbook stamped? Remember that some dealers are just numpties, and would only check their own computer system in case they had serviced it, and not bother checking the VAG system as well.

Hi Paul Surely it should be your insurance company organising the repair, not hers? Anyway, sadly the issue, as an insurance repair, will have a limit as to how much the insurance companies will be willing to pay out, otherwise the vehicle will be written off. There may be an option for you to buy the vehicle back off the insurance company and carry out the repairs yourself, but it will forever have a "Category A/B/C/D write off" marker against it meaning that the insurance for this car will mostly likely be affected for all of time, and will also have an effect on any resale value of the car. Just remember that if they do write it off and offer you an amount, you do NOT have to accept it especially if there are other circumstances which may mean they should be offering more (e.g. high quality condition of car). A good thing would be to find identical cars for sale with similar mileage/condition as yours (forget how how far away they are from you, it's purely to get an accurate value). My nephew recently done this when his car was written off by another driver - he's 18 years old, so the insurance company tried to offer him too little, so he got prices and went back to them with these and they offered a higher amount which he accepted.

I would concur with this. There is so mu h load on the electrical system these days that it's possible to get minor current drops which will be enough to flag a fault momentarily. Back in the early Noughties, I can remember going on an Audi technical course where it was mentioned that they were looking into upgrading the electrical system on future A8's to a higher voltage (24v I think) to cope with the increasing electrical consumption, but obviously never did it. With the even higher consumption on new cars that wasn't there even then, I do wonder how long before they start thinking about it again.

Oh, and electric isn't viable, because as it stands our national power grid is barely keeping up with regular demand, so can someone explain where the hell the energy will come from once we even get to 10% of vehicles using it?

LPG wasn't ever taken seriously, as only a couple of manufacturers ever offered it. The rest, probably because of lack of govt subsidies, never invested or developed the fuel system. LPG systems were (and probably still are) in effect as unrefined as a carburettor just dumping buckets of fuel into a modern engine fitted with multi-point refined fuel injection, which was proven by one of our Range Rovers with LPG which blew it's air filter box apart with the force of the backfire. When working for a fleet company, Ford UK told me that there was no LPG conversion system (including revised cylinder head), yet my colleague was able to obtain a genuine one through Ford in Scandinavia (as it was offered as an option out there). Most manufacturers official response to the question around warranty on vehicle being fired with LPG was a flat "no, your warranty will be null & void". The best response was from either Toyota or VAG (afraid I can't remember which one!), which the letter back to me stated "your warranty will remain valid only if you fit a manufacturer-approved system", which made me think a bit more positive until I called my contact and asked the question of how many systems were approved, to which they said "erm, none".

Trouble is, this issue with indirect environmental costs has been with us for years. Back when catalytic converters started to get used (compulsory in the UK in 1992 but fitted to a number of cars before then), many rare metals had to be dug out of the ground to go into the cat unit. Being an ex-mechanic, I know this was being discussed by us lowly grease monkeys in the late 90s, and sadly I doubt anything has changed since then and also doubt there is any effective system in place to help remove these metals from scrapped cat-converters before they get crushed. Having also worked in the car fleet industry 15ish years ago and being involved in the alternative fuel/dualfuel fleet being operated by the fleet company I worked for, I found it impossible to get a real-life figure of what it cost environmentally to produce an electric vehicle compared to the regular petrol or diesel variant of the same vehicle (which is actually a pretty efficient way of manufacturing nowadays as they've had a hundred years or so to get good at it). And don't even try to get an "end-of-life" destruction cost to the environment from a manufacturer, as they don't want to embarrass themselves.

Just a little update to the thoughts of removing your DPF filter...... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41761864

Hi Tom Just to add to what has been said already, if you top the AdBlue up yourself, do be very wary of spilling any on yourself or the car. You may as well chuck brake fluid on the paintwork for the damage it will do. So if you end up with any left, DO NOT store it anywhere that may heat up as I'm aware of someone who left their AdBlue bottle in the boot a couple of summers ago for a few days when summer hit it's hottest, and ended up having to replace the whole interior of the car as it'd been ruined by the vapour once the bottle exploded from the heat.

Just to clarify, you are technically breaking the law by removing your DPF. I mentioned previously (see above) about a friend of mine looking to remove his DPF. The garage suggested he may want to look at finding someone to do the removal for him as they were not willing to carry out the work as they would be heavily fined if the authorities tracked any DPF removal back to them. The car owner would be fined as well. There is an argument that most modern cars can still meet current emissions regulations without the DPF so therefore pass the MoT, but if you've removed the DPF and it does fail you're looking at the cost of refitting and the purchase of a new DPF unit assuming you haven't kept hold of it. And remember if you've removed the DPF and the car is still in warranty period, Audi will more than likely argue that you've invalidated the warranty on anything to do with the engine, possibly even more. It looks like I have the same model as you Wesley, and would suggest if its bothering you to put it into manual as soon as you get to m'way speed and knock down a couple of gears to get the revs over 3000rpm. I do occasionally get home after a 14-mile (mostly at 70mph) drive from work to have the fan running for 10/15 minutes once I've switched the ignition off, and believe this is to help dissipate the heat created by the DPF regen.

I've got the free version of RossTech VAG-COM running on a MacBook thru Parallels (it can only operate via Windows). I've used it many times to check and clear fault codes on my old 2001 A6 Avant (C5) and my wife's 2001 New Beetle. The old A6 was running Canbus, so I would assume the software still works on newer models. The only problem I've had with it is that I went the cheapo-route and bought a £20 connector lead, which is now playing up as it has to be wiggled in the USB slot.