Buying a car with 4WD

I am looking for a four-wheel-drive hatchback. It must have a manual gearbox, a petrol engine, 04/5 seats, max 5 to 8 years old. I have around £10,000 have looked at the Focus RS. It's a bit small so...

Split gearbox casing

I bought my 55 plate Audi A3 2.0FSI second hand from my local Audi Dealer at 50K miles. It's been serviced by them for the last 3 years and it's at 69K miles now. Good car. Recently the clutch started...

DPF - should I change to petrol?

My 2.0-litre TDI 170 6sp A4 has been perfect so far whilst commuting 20 miles each way. Now at three and a half years old and 41,000 miles my new commute will be only 3 miles each way. I would like to...

Replacing our Octavia

Please advise: When should we change an Octavia 2009 VRS CR estate with 25k miles, and for what? Superb estate, Passat, or an used A6? Best quality, reliability a priority, petrol or diesel? We do lots...

Fuel additives

My daughter has used Lucas upper cylinder lubricant as a fuel additive with her Honda Civic 2.2 cdi and experienced much better mpg figures. Would this be OK to use with my Audi A6 3.0 se TDI quattro automatic...

Audi query from India

I'm planning to order one of these cars soon but not sure which one is better in terms of long term ownership. We've always owned petrol cars so I'm inclined toward the 3.2 TFSI, but I'm open to the idea...

I was sold the wrong model

I bought what I thought was an 09-plate Audi A3 Sportback 2.0 TDI quattro Sport model in September from an Audi dealer on the Approved Audi scheme. It cost £20,700. A different dealer has just been doing...

Audi A1/A3 1.2 or Polo 1.6 comfortline hatch?

I am just wanting to know which car you think is best for me to buy. My job is a surgical representative for a medical company. I am very interested in the Audi A3 1.2 or the VW polo hatch 1.6 and I am...

Help requested identifying whining noise

I have an Audi A4 Avant 2.0 TDI Multitronic (2010 Model), only 4,000 miles, which has an irritating whining noise. It starts to appear at about 10 mph and continues to maximum speed, most noticeable about...

A car for retirement

My retirement date is now very close and, after having a company car for the last 30 year,s I will now have to buy my own new car. My current car is an Audi A4 2.0 TDI. It is 3 years old with 50,000 miles...