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Clear and Improve Sunroof Drains A8 D3

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Last raining season, my rear seats were wet on a heavy rain day. There was some water under the floor board also. Some in the trunk. The Audi A8 D3 sunroof drainage has been a problem with many owners. I did open them up and check the drainage rate and they’re quite slow, hence the …

Carista OBD2 Bluetooth and Software

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Today I’m going to try the new OBD2 Bluetooth Dongle from Carista. It’s quite simple and easy to pair, I use the free trial software which doesn’t have any long coding, although there are quite a few simple programs that’s good. The paying structure is subscription which is good for some and bad for other. …

G12 & G13 Coolant for Audi Cars

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Since I’ve owned Audis, I noticed the color of the coolant is not green but orange. My 2008 Q7 has purple pink color instead of orange as my older ones. These 2 coolant colors are. All Audis before 2008 use G12 (Orange/Red) and after 2008 G13 (Purple/Pink). The main difference between these 2 from the …

Audi Doesn’t Start In Park or Neutral

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If your Audi doesn’t start at all on either in Park or even in Neutral, first check the battery voltage, make sure it’s at least 12V, if it is then it may well be the faulty brake light switch. If you get stranded any where, try to wiggle or tap the brake light switch hopefully …

How To Install ElsaWin 5.2 To Windows 8 or Windows 10

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08/14/2017 I’ve just realized the A8 D3 wiring diagrams function doesn’t display on ElsaWin 5.2 due to the fact that it assumed we upgraded from the 5.1 and the DATA 5.1 does include these diagrams. In order for the wiring diagram to work, we need to install the DATA of the 5.1 (AUDI03.2014). I tried …

Why Audis

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Ask my wife, she’s used to be a Honda Accord owner likes most people who want reliable cars for safety reasons, now she will not drive anything but Audis, after we got married and I got her first 7 year old A6 Avant. She loved the car for the comfort, the safety (which she can …

$70k Disposable Car

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Disposable: designed for or capable of being thrown away after being used or used up. I found this old post and I just thought of re-post it with update information. Last few weeks, I took the A8, myself took a trip to Reno for some conferences. It’s been a long time since I drove the …

Audi Quattro Principle

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We like Audi because of their Quattro system. Since our cabriolet doesn’t have quattro, we can feel the front wheel drive slipping sometimes in the rain due to high torque V6. We’ll never take the cabriolet in the snow or heavy rain trips. We love all our quattro’s.