Audi's courtesy cars

Rich.

Rich.

A2OC Donor
Just wondering what cars you get or a choice of when your one is having its bits fixed, do you collect it from the bodyshop when you drop your one off?. Can I choose from an Q7? R8? and if audi offer an A3 refuse it? ! :p
 
At my Audi dealer they only give those courtesy cars to owners of "real Audis" (their words) A2 owners get a car from the PX pool - I got a 1989 Ford Sierra 1300 L (60bhp model).
Thats the type of service we have come expect :mad: the bill for the service was more than the courtesy car was worth :eek:
 
I got an Audi A6 2.0T when my car went in for an ABS sensor replacement. Was a very nice car, but the employee never showed me how to release the handbrake, i was sitting there for 5mins trying to figure out how to release it. It was just a little switch you lift whilst holding the brake pedal !! I had never experienced the newer Audi's so was all new to me !!
 
Tony, you need to change your dealer if they pull stunts like that - their comments about real Audis is not on either.

Richard, why not show an interest in buying another car and see if they have a courtesy vehicle that they can give you for the day which will double as a test drive. That way, you could land up with anything really.

I've had A3s. A4s (mostly) A6s and even a couple of TTs.

Cheers,

Mike
 
I might try an TT.. I dont thik i'd get away with taking a Q7 away. It means another trip to audi for the test drive tho :rolleyes:
 
I usually get one of their fleet of A3 courtesy cars - generally 2.0 TDi's or maybe the 1.6 Special Editions. Sometimes I've had an A4. Was once offered an A6, but pulled a face and they found an A3 for me. :)

Never yet had a Sierra... OR any derogatory remarks about the A2 not being a 'real Audi'.
I have had comments about Audi making a severe mistake with the A2 - they pulled it FAR too early. :lol: And this from a salesman trying to get me interested in an A4...
 
I have had allsorts from Audi

A3 (from 1.6 upto 2.0T/TDI)
A4 (2.0T/2.0TDI) Saloon and Avant
A6 2.0TDI Saloon and Avant

I always get a nice car to be honest, mostly because the dealership knows I take the car back clean, fully fuelled up and ready to go out again saving them time prepping etc.
 
I went to look at a second hand A2 for sale (before I bought my current one) which the chap said had only had three previous owners. On further investigation I found that each of these owners had been an Audi garage, and it was obvious that this poor little A2 had been used as a courtesy car for all its life. On the surface it looked OK, it had done a moderate mileage, but it felt like a bag of bones. It was by some margin the worst car I looked at.

Moral of the story ... beware of A2's that have been used as courtesy cars, cos they get flogged to death.

JH
 
John, I think this is true of most models used as courtesy cars and I blame the garages themselves, they generally provide the cheapest cars possible for courtesy vehicles that then often stuggle at the hands of somebody not used to driving such a frail and delicate little car. As well as our A2 we have a Honda 2.2 diesel 4x4 which I pound the motorways in daily 35-40K pa. When it goes in for a service I usually get a Jazz 1.0 petrol which then has to travel a variety of motorways for the day working often far too hard for its poor little self, I remember having a Nissan 200SX - courtesy car - Nissan Micra. I have commented on this and occasionally things improve slightly but never much - Toyota RAV4 - Toyota Corolla :(
Although the bodyshop the Honda went to did slightly better when I commented on the motorway miles I do - they gave me a Saab 9-5 Vector estate - and when I crashed that :eek: they gave a Volvo XC 70 :D
now thats service :D
 
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