Richard Solomon

Ok, so this is probably a bit nutty, but it seems like there are always Euro-only parts that folks want to add/swap. Has anyone found a helpful (especially helpful in English) Audi dealer or other parts source relatively nearby the Audi Forum? My thought is to come up with a laundry list of wants and consider picking up some Euro-only parts while I'm in Germany. I know major parts would be flagged at importation time, and might be cost-prohibitive to ship home, but perhaps little odds and ends (still TBD) might be reasonable to acquire in Germany?

Richard Solomon

FWIW, the Audi Forum sells accessories like AMI cables and floormats - I never did try for anything more complex, but the elusive Apple Lightning cable was easily available there.

alatsacto

Yeah the Audi Forum had a pretty wide selection of accessories and souvenirs, however things were quite pricey as compared to the BMW Welt gift shop.

Richard Solomon

Hmmm, I guess I don't remember the Welt having anything I considered "reasonable" either My daughter paid some astronomical price for an Audi-sport pillow which she very much enjoyed throughout the trip though

alatsacto

It's relative "overpriced-ness". Well I bought some diecast BMW model cars for like 2EUR as gifts and they had plenty of stuff for under 20EUR. I can't remember anything under 20EUR at the Audi Forum. I felt obligated to buy something at the Audi Forum as a souvenir. I ended up buying a fleece jacket which was close to 100EUR. YIKES!!!

Richard Solomon

The basic diecast 1:87 models were under 20EUR, but not much. The 1:43 maybe 25-30EUR, except the S6 of course was only in the 1 of 500 limited edition - but I'd bought that 18 months ago before I bought the real car

They had some 3-4" keychain Audi-sport bears vs the 50? EUR bears. Delivery guy gave us all Audi keychains - but not the S6 badged one

I think my daughter's pillow was 29EUR! Her money, not mine.

alatsacto

Yeah I really wanted to get a model car of my SQ5, but I think the only version they had was some limited edition selling for like 150EUR. :O

Yeah we had a group of 6 and they gave us all Audi Ingolstadt keychains as well. It was a nice little free gift for everyone to take home.

Richard Solomon

S6 is "only" 89EUR. Of course the wife's comment when I brought that home a couple years back was "You spent HOW MUCH on a TOY car?" But it was in the color I wanted and everything, so I had to ... and now my kids are of course saying "You planned it this way all along!"

Smart kids