Audi A6 3.0tdi tiptronic?

[Liam79]

I'm looking at viewing an a6 3.0 tdi le mans this weekend. On the advert it says it's a tiptronic paddle shift.

Can these be used as full automatic without the the need for the paddle shift or do you have to use these all the time?

[Dazzled]

You can leave it in D and woofle along. Pop it in Sport and it lifts its skirts, or, at anytime use the paddles and drive it as a manual. The car stops you doing anything daft like over revving or pulling too high a gear low revs.

[Liam79]

Sounds like fun. At least I can use it as an auto when potting about.

[blueg33]

TBH I wasnt that keen on using the paddles. In sport mode auto changes are quicker than when using the paddles.

Great cars though, best everyday car I have had.

[Adrian E]

It's a proper ZF torque converter auto, with flappy paddles in case you want to play at changing manually. In D it will slush gears perfectly happily.

S-tronic twin clutch transmissions are functionally different but achieve much the same aim and can be driven fully auto, but with a bit less refinement around town.

[Kell]

Just to reitterate what's said above, you don't have to use the paddles - in fact in the two years I've had the car, I doubt I've used them more than about ten times.

What you do have, however, are 5 different modes of changing gear.

D - great for just pootling about.

S - great for when you want to press on a bit.

Manual paddles - push the gear lever to the left and you can use the paddles to change up and down.

Manual gear lever - push the gear lever to the left and you can push up or pull back to change up and down.

Auto - with paddle override - If you're in D (or S for that matter), and suddenly need to drop a cog or two, you can use the paddles to override the auto and it will go into manual mode. If you don't hit the paddles again (for 20 seconds or so), it will revert back to full manual.

The only thing that annoys me slightly, and it is only slight, is that the right hand paddle goes up the gears and the left hand goes down. But on the display, the gear indicator runs from 1 at the right to 6 at the left.

[Lost soul]

I had an A8 V8 petrol a few years back it had them , used them twice I think

[Liam79]

Does the sport option change performance or is it just a sharper gear change like on my e46 m3?

[Kell]

I would say it sharpens up response, but that might be a placebo effect.

I know that on a couple of roundabouts near me, I always use Sport mode as it makes the car pull away quicker and I have to be quick as the main traffic flow comes from my right.

[Adrian E]

Changes the throttle mapping to make it feel more urgent to a stab of gas, makes the gearbox keener to downshift and hang on to gears for longer. Often locks out top gear, but can't remember if that's the case on this particular box.

S mode was always handy in our 5 speed ZF'd A6 3.0 petrol as it wasn't the most torquey motor and slipping it into S for merging into motorway traffic was quite handy. Used far more often than the manual shift!

[Liam79]

Does the sport option change performance or is it just a sharper gear change like on my e46 m3?

[Adrian E]

Liam79 said:

Does the sport option change performance or is it just a sharper gear change like on my e46 m3?

It doesn't change the engine mapping, to my knowledge. It purely gives the impression of more urgent go by altering how responsive the throttle feels and making the box a bit less lazy

[ukdennis]

I have an A8 D3 3.0tdi and find the flappy paddles quite handy to hold gears/go up or down one, when travelling up or down steep roads with lots of hairpin bends. Other than that, I never use them.

[Liam79]

Ok, bit of an update. I bought the car 2007 3.0 tdi quattro le mans in black.
Few questions.
It's saying a service is due, car has done 71k so what type of service would this be?

What type of mpg should I be getting as recent a road jaunt returned 34 mpg?

[blueg33]

Liam79 said:

Ok, bit of an update. I bought the car 2007 3.0 tdi quattro le mans in black.
Few questions.
It's saying a service is due, car has done 71k so what type of service would this be?

What type of mpg should I be getting as recent a road jaunt returned 34 mpg?

MPG is about right as an average unless you are doing a lot of motorway stuff at under 80mph. Mine averaged 35mpg over 7 years and 116k miles

As for the service, it depends whether its on longlife or fixed. Service book should show you the service regime and when it was last serviced. Longlife is roughly every 18k miles

[Dimski]

Liam79 said:

Ok, bit of an update. I bought the car 2007 3.0 tdi quattro le mans in black.
Few questions.
It's saying a service is due, car has done 71k so what type of service would this be?

What type of mpg should I be getting as recent a road jaunt returned 34 mpg?

Not the easiest to answer, as it may depend on whether the car is on Audi's long life service plan. (Service every 20k or so)

That MPG for an A6 3.0tdi seems about right, what type of speeds/roads was it?

I used to get low-mid 30s mpg from my 2006 A6 allroad 3.0tdi on my daily rural commute with plenty of hills, and got up to low 40s on long runs.

[shtu]

Liam79 said:

Ok, bit of an update. I bought the car 2007 3.0 tdi quattro le mans in black.

Sir is clearly a gentleman of exquisite taste.

Liam79 said:

It's saying a service is due, car has done 71k so what type of service would this be?

Mine is on variable but I have the major service done each time. There's only really the cost of the filters in it (£40-50)

Liam79 said:

What type of mpg should I be getting as recent a road jaunt returned 34 mpg?

Sounds about right.

[Liam79]

below the side repeaters which looks a nice touch (not sure if these were standard as new as some seem to have them and some don't? )

I thought mpg seemed about right just checking on other opinions.

Also bit of a droan noise when I'm driving as if a wheel bearing? I know the car is 2 tonne and low profile tyres probably doesn't help. Is this normal?

What would a service on this car entail?

Edited by Liam79 on Wednesday 19th November 12:21

[Kell]

Seems like you're missing something from the start of your post.

But as your car's is a Le Mans I figure you'll probably be talking about the Le Mans badges.

Mine doesn't have them and when I looked at getting a pair they were £100.

So I didn't bother.

[blueg33]

Mine didnt have the LeMans badges, but I know it was a LeMans because I ordered the car from new.

The droining could be a wheel bearing or it could be "tyre tread stepping" caused by tyres wera and/or a geo issue. The OEM Pirellis my car was suplied with did drone a bit even when geo was spot on. Other tyres didnt