shwndh

I can’t get a fraction of the support and quality posts from other car forums that I got here for my 3 VAG cars. Tesla and Mercedes owners worship the manufacturers like they invented electronics and mechanical engineering and taking your car to them is the only solution. They actually discourage working on your own car even through many come from an engineering or automotive background. Audi world has always had a great cast of highly skilled people who were willing to share their experience and knowledge. It’s hard to find that nowadays. Appreciate the community of great DIY members that you have.

turbo510

AW members who drive the roughly 20 year-old A4s are usually competent DIY'ers at a minimum, so plenty of the posts are technically in-depth. I've also got a B9 A5 Sportback 2.0, and that forum hardly interests me due to their fixation on cosmetics and pictures of their cars. This B6-type situation applies to other brands too; I have a 1986 Mercedes-Benz 560SL roadster, and the forum I joined for that is also repair-oriented, as those things are no younger than 35 years old. I have read of 560SL owners going to a Mercedes dealer for service, only to be told that no one there knows a thing about those cars.

B6_Dolphin

I've had a B6 A4 1.8t Quattro, a B7 RS4 Cab, a B8.5 Allroad, and now a B9.5 SQ5 SB & RS5. Always wrenched on my Audis, even the models I have now.

2003 A4:

One of my installed mods on the A4:

On my '21 SQ5 Sportback, I installed an APR IC last summer, which otherwise would have cost me almost $900 in labor at an Indy shop:




More recently I installed an APR CF Intake on the '23 RS5, and switched-out the OEM rear headrests and sunvisors for European headrests and sunvisors (no lawyer labels).

turbo510

Very nice!