Audi Care Service
07-26-2018, 01:37 PM
#22
AudiWorld Junior Member
Scroll down a little in this link, it lists everything covered by Audicare. Surprisingly rotating the tires is NOT covered (only checking for wear and adjusting the pressure).
2017 Audi Care & Audi Care Select | Audi library
As far as the residual value versus cost on a lease, it does bump RV by 1% if you buy Audicare. I did a calc and for my deal the payment would go up about $10/mo with increased RV and adding $865 to the gross cap cost. So it's a pretty negligible adder onto a monthly payment that's already in the $800 range.
2017 Audi Care & Audi Care Select | Audi library
As far as the residual value versus cost on a lease, it does bump RV by 1% if you buy Audicare. I did a calc and for my deal the payment would go up about $10/mo with increased RV and adding $865 to the gross cap cost. So it's a pretty negligible adder onto a monthly payment that's already in the $800 range.
07-26-2018, 02:05 PM
#23
Club AutoUnion
After buying a case of the Audi spec’d oil to “top off” the engine between changes, the cost of the AudiCare was a an easy decision for me. I’ve purchased my S5 and keep cars for a looong time, so knowing I won’t have to pay for an oil change for 60,000 miles made sense.
07-26-2018, 03:03 PM
#24
Scroll down a little in this link, it lists everything covered by Audicare. Surprisingly rotating the tires is NOT covered (only checking for wear and adjusting the pressure).
2017 Audi Care & Audi Care Select | Audi library
As far as the residual value versus cost on a lease, it does bump RV by 1% if you buy Audicare. I did a calc and for my deal the payment would go up about $10/mo with increased RV and adding $865 to the gross cap cost. So it's a pretty negligible adder onto a monthly payment that's already in the $800 range.
2017 Audi Care & Audi Care Select | Audi library
As far as the residual value versus cost on a lease, it does bump RV by 1% if you buy Audicare. I did a calc and for my deal the payment would go up about $10/mo with increased RV and adding $865 to the gross cap cost. So it's a pretty negligible adder onto a monthly payment that's already in the $800 range.
07-26-2018, 05:10 PM
#26
HA / KC / EЯ
I was able to get my dealer to 8% off MSRP plus Audi Care included, with a car that I spec'd and they had to find and ship in.
Last edited by hevnsnt; 07-26-2018 at 06:44 PM.
07-26-2018, 05:50 PM
#27
AudiWorld Super User
payment goes down if residual goes up and total dollars of the deal does not change
AudiCare has a cost - deal dollars goes up as a result of this cost. But, since AudiCare is "residualized" just like the car is, payment only goes up incrementally.
AudiCare has a cost - deal dollars goes up as a result of this cost. But, since AudiCare is "residualized" just like the car is, payment only goes up incrementally.
07-26-2018, 10:13 PM
#28
AudiWorld Senior Member
For all your discount seekers...
On the forum, members said Audi USA sends an email with a $100 off code for Audi Care. I waited and 3 months after purchasing my car, I got the email with the code. I called up the dealer I bought the car and purchased for $769 ($100 off). The person who handled my transaction had not seen this before so I had to forward the email to him with the promotion and code. He said it was a great deal as there is not much profit in the Audi Care for the dealer. He said markup was $50 dollars (whether true or not...). It did not matter that I had taken my car out of the state I had purchased from - the transaction was done over the phone.
I bought it because the DSG transmission flush and maintenance is so expensive and it is covered so the rest of the services become pretty cheap. If you have a manual transmission, may not be as good of a deal.
On the forum, members said Audi USA sends an email with a $100 off code for Audi Care. I waited and 3 months after purchasing my car, I got the email with the code. I called up the dealer I bought the car and purchased for $769 ($100 off). The person who handled my transaction had not seen this before so I had to forward the email to him with the promotion and code. He said it was a great deal as there is not much profit in the Audi Care for the dealer. He said markup was $50 dollars (whether true or not...). It did not matter that I had taken my car out of the state I had purchased from - the transaction was done over the phone.
I bought it because the DSG transmission flush and maintenance is so expensive and it is covered so the rest of the services become pretty cheap. If you have a manual transmission, may not be as good of a deal.
07-27-2018, 06:00 AM
#29
AudiWorld Senior Member
For all your discount seekers...
On the forum, members said Audi USA sends an email with a $100 off code for Audi Care. I waited and 3 months after purchasing my car, I got the email with the code. I called up the dealer I bought the car and purchased for $769 ($100 off). The person who handled my transaction had not seen this before so I had to forward the email to him with the promotion and code. He said it was a great deal as there is not much profit in the Audi Care for the dealer. He said markup was $50 dollars (whether true or not...). It did not matter that I had taken my car out of the state I had purchased from - the transaction was done over the phone.
I bought it because the DSG transmission flush and maintenance is so expensive and it is covered so the rest of the services become pretty cheap. If you have a manual transmission, may not be as good of a deal.
On the forum, members said Audi USA sends an email with a $100 off code for Audi Care. I waited and 3 months after purchasing my car, I got the email with the code. I called up the dealer I bought the car and purchased for $769 ($100 off). The person who handled my transaction had not seen this before so I had to forward the email to him with the promotion and code. He said it was a great deal as there is not much profit in the Audi Care for the dealer. He said markup was $50 dollars (whether true or not...). It did not matter that I had taken my car out of the state I had purchased from - the transaction was done over the phone.
I bought it because the DSG transmission flush and maintenance is so expensive and it is covered so the rest of the services become pretty cheap. If you have a manual transmission, may not be as good of a deal.
07-27-2018, 06:45 AM
#30
AudiWorld Junior Member
You are correct, increased RV does decrease your payment on a lease. And the addition of $865 to capitalized cost takes it up. I ran the math and the net effect is a slight increase in payment. My point was just that: payment does go up but it's a negligible increase and you get so much included with Audicare that it's definitely a good adder.