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After a 5 year hiatus with no Audi's after my B8 S4's electric power steering spookiness left a bad taste in my mouth, I left for Porsche-land and followed through with my signature. The lady of the house wanted something new and she almost went back to a Mini Hardtop from her Bimmer SUV, but cooler heads prevailed (the practicality of having two small cars that ride pretty hard) and we picked up a 2021 Quantum Gray SQ5. Premium Plus with Nav, B&O, Sport pack and cooled seats. Thankfully the bumper was not drilled since we found the car in NJ. If this car didn't work then we were going order a 2022. I think the only thing we would have done different on that car is maybe skip the B&O for the dynamic steering. We never could find a car with dynamic steering but I spent some good seat time in a non-dynamic car and Audi seems to have gotten rid of the demons that plagued the B8.5 S4. Maybe that and a sunroof delete. Only other wish might have been the heads up display as the Mrs. was a huge fan of that in her Bimmer. Shame that's bunded into the prestige only cars. Only gripes are I wish they had the quilted air cooled seats like the SQ7 as an option and for this sort of money they can include real exhaust tips and not make it a 1300 dollar 'port install option'. Not sure what accountant thought that was a great idea but I cannot see how the fakes lowered the cost of manufacturing.
Here are some photos...
No immediate plans for mods other then snow wheels and tires. Did a test fit and my old 20's from my B8 S4's and my A8L seem to fit and clear the brakes no problem so I will be looking to get a set of snowies for those. I know its not ideal to go with a wider wheel and tire for snow use but its not too crazy.
Current offsets are 39 on a 8x20 wheel, the bentley 20's are and offset of 41 on a 9x20 wheel. Should be about 15mm less clearance inboard and about 11mm of additional poke. Plans are to go with a 275x40 series tire. Probably the Alpins.
I know the Tires are the wrong size.
Will need some fresh conical wheel bolts as the stock ones are this odd rounded thing.
Rears appear to clear as well.
I am fully aware narrower is better, but I have a free set of rims or rims that I bought like 12 years ago and they are 9" wide so that presents the quandary of going wider.
Update: I just realized that per tire rack a 255 width tire should be on a rim with a width range of 8-9.5" so I can get away with 255's on a 9".
I won't go wider (to 275) but I do not think I could go narrower unless I swapped the stock summer tires on to my extra rims and use Audi's narrower 8" rim to go down to 235/50 20" or something.
07-07-2021, 08:08 AM
I'm back!
