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Old 06-13-2018, 07:05 AM
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I’m getting ready to buy a new 2018 Audi A5 Sportback in the US. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety rates the car a “top safety pick” and has only one negative critique: they rate the headlights “marginal”. How are the headlights in the real world?
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Originally Posted by Ayefiver
I’m getting ready to buy a new 2018 Audi A5 Sportback in the US. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety rates the car a “top safety pick” and has only one negative critique: they rate the headlights “marginal”. How are the headlights in the real world?
The high beams are excellent on my 2018 S5 SB (Full LED setup). I find the low beams to be OK - while thay are bright and a very white light, they could be better: cut-off is sharp and range could be longer. That said, I've never found them to be problematic at all!

BTW - You posted this in the wroing forum for a 2018 (B9) model.

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Thanks for the quick reply and for telling me I posted in the wrong place. It’s my first post and first visit to the forum. I’ll try to figure out how and where to properly post. Also, what does B9 mean?
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Originally Posted by Ayefiver
Thanks for the quick reply and for telling me I posted in the wrong place. It’s my first post and first visit to the forum. I’ll try to figure out how and where to properly post. Also, what does B9 mean?
B9 is a designator for the "generation/platform" of the car. The current design that launched in 2018 (in NA) is the B9 while 2012-2017 was the B8 - there was probaby a B8.5 in there as a monir facelift oin 2014(?) as well.

You posted in the Audi A5 / S5 / RS5 Coupe & Cabrio (B8) forum, so you might not get the right answers here. There is a Audi A5 / S5 / RS5 Coupe & Cabrio (B9) subforum under the main Audi A5 / S5 / RS5 Coupe & Cabrio forum as well.
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Excellent reply. Thanks!
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