imag1ne

Hello,

(This is about the EU model, Germany)

I recently had a testdrive with a 2012 a6 avant 3.0 TDI Quattro (204ps) and it felt quite nice. Currently I drive a VW Golf 5 on benzine, but need more space for the kids.

The audi it self is nice and all with about 78.000km, not that bad I think.

I have a few questions, and I hope this is the right forum for it.

1. Will the emission scandal affect also this type of engine? Or is it only limited to the 2.0 tdi engines? I also read the 3.0 is a different engine and the problem should not be there.

2. The dealer told me they will take over any costs if any problems with the emission would come to light. I however would not like the car to be "downgraded" and end up with a slow car Is this perhaps just terrible timing to buy a diesel atm? Should we wait for a confirmation about the 3.0 TDI's?

3. I was first going for a 3.0 tdi multitronic, but I saw lots of people are having problem with this, and I personaly really dislike the "constant shifting" idea. Are the 3.0 TDI quattro engines more reliable?


I hope I can get some answers!

Thanks alot!

John Simcox

So far the 3.0 engines do not seem to be implicated in the scandal. Quattro refers to the presence of four wheel drive not the engine. The engine is the same whether it is two wheel drive or four wheel drive and seems to be reliable. The multitronic gearbox is only available on the 2 wheel drive car and must be serviced every 60k kilometres. The quattro cars have either S-Tronic (DSG) or Tiptronic (traditional auto) and the 204 car has S-Tronic which still requires regular servicing at the same interval but seems less susceptible to issues

The dealer is making an offer that in reality VAG will be making anyway so is not as generous as they make out. If the cars are found to have not falsely undertaken EU tests (the software issue so far is only confirmed to affect cars undertaking the US test regardless of whether the erroneous software is in the EMU of the EU cars) then there will be no need for VAG to do anything in EU. Of course if it is found they have achieved their EU5 rating in error they will need address that issue but as I said at the start 3.0 cars seem to be unaffected at the present time