Test drive Audi A4 B6 2001 - 2004 sedan

Audi A4 3.0 Quattro /4100 km

For the reporting period, 2600 km was added on the A4 speedometer. We passed them, frankly, very imperceptibly for ourselves and almost imperceptibly for the car.
+ Hurray, fuel consumption decreased! The appetites of the engine at the first one and a half thousand kilometers brought us to a slight confusion: the 65-lying tank was barely enough for 400 miles of the track. After two thousand, the car has formed, and now the mixed consumption of the city/highway is already less than 15 liters. Plus, we try to pour only AI-98 into the tank, it is on it, by the way, the manufacturer guarantees the declared 220 hp, although it allows the use of AI-95.
- At the end of June, leaving the road to the Volokolamsk highway, we caught a pebble. Exactly in the windshield. The most annoying thing is that the stone flew out from under the wheels of the editorial Mitsubishi Pajero, and now a chip flashes right in front of the eyes of the Audi driver. It is good that the car is insured, otherwise such a direct hit would cost at least $ 400 per windshield along with the installation.
- Another trouble happened with Michelin rubber. On the sidewall of the front right wheel, we found an impressive size of a burr. Where did he come from - none of the drivers admitted: everything was fine with me. Employees of the nearest tire fitting, where we applied for advice, immediately began to be wrapped: immediately rearrange it back, otherwise it will burst from the road fly away. We decided to change it for the spare tire - since it is on exactly the same disk and full -size. And since such cuts, alas, are not treated, I had to look for Audi dealers of the same wheel in size 215/55 R16 with a speed index of Y (up to 300 km/h). Alas, he was not available. We will think what to do next.

+/- engine 3.0 liters- top-end in the range of A4. It was because of him that the car in our configuration costs almost $ 45 thousand. At the same time, it seemed to us that it would be much more interesting on this model that would be a power unit 2.7 Biturbo, familiar to us on AlloD and A6. In combination with automatic transmission and all -wheel drive, the 3.0 engine is distinguished by some thought, especially with a sharp start, but I want more dynamics.
+ Autopilot has its own test route. Oddly enough, this is the extreme left strip of the Rublevo highway passing around the city. The fact is that the asphalt on it is rolled to a decent track, and many tested cars do not stand it with a ruble: they begin to scour left-right. The A4 driver simply does not notice this track.
- The average Audi user between the passage then must remember two things: the level of oil in the engine and the presence of liquid in the glass of the glass gunner. We had no problems with the first - the norm, but pour the liquid into the tank and do not shed, while not a drop should still be wise. The design of the cover is made in such a way that it simply cannot be fixed in the open position. Exit: pour the liquid together - one pours, the second holds.
Text Fedor Aleksandrov, photo Alexey Ilyin

Costs June 20 - July 20
Mileage city/highway - 2600 km. Gasoline consumption - 290 liters.
AI-98 gasoline $ 110
Liquid for glass gunner $ 5
Tiresomontate $ 4
Moika $ 30
Only $ 149

 

Source: "Autopilot"