{"id":4025,"date":"2019-04-22T10:44:09","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T17:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/?p=4025"},"modified":"2021-03-17T16:52:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T23:52:53","slug":"should-i-upgrade-from-a8l-d3-to-a8l-d4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/should-i-upgrade-from-a8l-d3-to-a8l-d4.html","title":{"rendered":"Should I upgrade from A8L D3 to A8L D4?"},"content":{"rendered":"<link href=\"\/idogjs\/icss\/font-awesome\/css\/ifotorama.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\"><script src=\"https:\/\/ajax.googleapis.com\/ajax\/libs\/jquery\/1.11.3\/jquery.min.js\"><\/script><script src=\"\/idogjs\/ijs\/ifotorama.js\"><\/script>\n<p><em>Finally my sis and her husband got a 3.5 years CPO 2017 A8L D4 with 13k miles on it for $50k from Pacific Audi in Torrance, CA. The car has most of the options they wanted &#8211; Executive package, driver assistant package and in pristine condition.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>After driving the newer 2017 A8L, I couldn&#8217;t tell much difference in comfort, stability and handling between the 2 A8L. I like the full blown massage seats in the newer one, but not a good reason for spending much more money to trade in my 2006 A8L. I felt Audi has been short changing the A8 D4 customers, these are the things that should be offered, at least on the 2017:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Apple CarPlay or Android Auto capability, my 2017 VW eGolf has it and we love it.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Bluetooth streaming with songs displayed on the MMI screen is great, but missing the skipping songs control on the steering buttons, my 2017 VW eGolf has it.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>No Parking Assistance.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The back up camera is worse than many cheaper cars, no high resolutions.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"igallery\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"preview\" title=\"2006 A8L\" href=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_IMG_9617_bk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4057\" src=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_IMG_9617_bk-200x112.jpg\" alt=\"2006 A8L\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"preview\" title=\"2006 A8L\" href=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_IMG_9622.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4059\" src=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_IMG_9622-200x112.jpg\" alt=\"2006 A8L\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audiworld.com\/forums\/a8-s8-d4-platform-discussion-190\/vcds-tweaks-a8-2880792\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><button class=\"w3-button w3-red w3-round-xlarge\">Vag-com codes for D4<\/a> <\/button><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audiworld.com\/forums\/a8-s8-d4-platform-discussion-190\/vcds-mods-front-seats-d4-a8-s8-heating-stepdown-timer-massage-time-intensity-2914201\/#post24920253\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><button class=\"w3-button w3-blue w3-round-xlarge\">Heated and Massage Seats Mods<\/a> <\/button><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audiworld.com\/forums\/a8-s8-d4-platform-discussion-190\/vcds-mod-trunk-boot-remote-open-close-d4-a8-s8-2915162\/#post24927683\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><button class=\"w3-button w3-green w3-round-xlarge\">Open\/Close Trunk with Key Fobs<\/a> <\/button><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"youtube-player\" data-id=\"UUiHzx9EvWs\"><\/div><\/p>\n<div class='fotorama--wp' data-ids='4577,4578,4579,4580,4581'data-allowfullscreen='yes'data-link='file'data-itemtag='dl'data-icontag='dt'data-captiontag='dd'data-columns='0'data-size='large'data-width='600'data-auto='false'data-max-width='100%'data-ratio='1.5037593984962'><div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4025 gallery-columns-0 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_d3_d4_front_side.jpg' data-full='https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_d3_d4_front_side.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_d3_d4_front_side-200x112.jpg\" class=\"w3-image attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"A8 D3 and D4 Front Side\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_d3_d4_front.jpg' data-full='https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_d3_d4_front.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_d3_d4_front-200x112.jpg\" class=\"w3-image attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"A8L D3 and D4 Front\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl 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D4 Rear\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_d3_d4_rear-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_d3_d4_rear-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_d3_d4_rear-455x254.jpg 455w, https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_d3_d4_rear.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_d3_d4.jpg' data-full='https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_d3_d4.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_d3_d4-200x112.jpg\" class=\"w3-image attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" 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The car has most of the options they wanted &#8211; Executive package, driver assistant package and in pristine condition. After driving the newer 2017 A8L, I couldn&#8217;t tell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/should-i-upgrade-from-a8l-d3-to-a8l-d4.html\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,466],"tags":[556,616,1006],"class_list":["post-4025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a8-d3","category-a8-d4","tag-a8-d3","tag-a8-d4","tag-comparison"],"views":1991,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4025"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5017,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025\/revisions\/5017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}