Hi All
30yr old Aussie here who has a Ice Silver Q3 TFSI coming in with Tech Pack and 18" twin 5 spoke wheels and got a boot mat thrown in as part of my negotiating.
I notice a lot of people on this forum have the TDI, I've never owned a Diesel and not old enough to know about Diesels back in the old days ;P I know the general marketing, more fuel efficient , turbo removes a lot of issues with older diesels, slightly more noise etc. The noise etc never phased me and obviously the Fuel efficiency appealed to me. But I was talked out of it by the dealer saying that for the filter to clean itself out (which looking at the audi engine animation videos it shows it as going red and then all the bad stuff disappears, doesnt say how), he said you got to run the engine for at least 60 mins continuously at least every 2 weeks for it to get hot enough to clean itself out. If you don't then more servicing issues you will have.
We won't use the car to drive to work so doing the "required" time seemed a bit of an ask. Is this a far enough assessment? No other car dealer for the other cars were we looking at mentioned it when we were checking out their Turbo Diesel options, not that I necessarily trust car dealers which is why I'm asking here
30yr old Aussie here who has a Ice Silver Q3 TFSI coming in with Tech Pack and 18" twin 5 spoke wheels and got a boot mat thrown in as part of my negotiating.
I notice a lot of people on this forum have the TDI, I've never owned a Diesel and not old enough to know about Diesels back in the old days ;P I know the general marketing, more fuel efficient , turbo removes a lot of issues with older diesels, slightly more noise etc. The noise etc never phased me and obviously the Fuel efficiency appealed to me. But I was talked out of it by the dealer saying that for the filter to clean itself out (which looking at the audi engine animation videos it shows it as going red and then all the bad stuff disappears, doesnt say how), he said you got to run the engine for at least 60 mins continuously at least every 2 weeks for it to get hot enough to clean itself out. If you don't then more servicing issues you will have.
We won't use the car to drive to work so doing the "required" time seemed a bit of an ask. Is this a far enough assessment? No other car dealer for the other cars were we looking at mentioned it when we were checking out their Turbo Diesel options, not that I necessarily trust car dealers which is why I'm asking here