Questions about our new car

[TheOriginal]

This is our new to us 2011 a4 avant. I've done quite a bit of research over the past few days about common issues and upgrade options and I just have a few questions to help us get to know our avant a little bit better.

It has heated seats and HIDs so that means we have a premium+ right?

Do all 2011 a4s have the 8 speed transmission or do only later build dates have it?

How can I tell if it has the updated coil packs?

It has 87000 miles, I know that the timing chain should be serviced around 100k along with an intake carbon cleaning, are there anything else that might need my attention immediately?

[Avantmaniac]

Best thing is to call Audi USA and they can provide you the details of your car.

[TheOriginal]

Best thing is to call Audi USA and they can provide you the details of your car.

That really only applies to the first 2 questions.

[s4baby]

Read the buyers guide sticky thread. Good luck

[Audi 4 Life]

Yes you likely have P +. Congrats on the new purchase ibis white is a great color!

When first buying a car unless you have records of all work done snd even if you do approaching 100k these services would be good to perform. Personally i always go through and service all basic maintenece.
-flush ALL fluids ( will ensure components last longer)
(OIL, Trans, brake, power steering, coolant, rear diff)
-replace spark plugs and coil packs (good time to upgrafe to R8 red coils)
-replace all filters oil, air, fuel,cabin
- check over all suspension componemts rubber bushings and other rubber components like hoses and belts for signs of wear

After carbon clean would be good time to instsll 034 oil catch can kit. Other kits are not comparable and it will do good to keep intake clean. A water meth kit would do better. But at very least a quality catch can like 034 kit. Most other kits are cheap. 034 is superior becsuse it upgrades and removes the pvc system.

All that would be a good place to start.
Congrats on the car ibis white is a grest color. I have it as well.

I would also reccomend the j code mod to black the yellow lenses in headlights. It looks good IMO on ibis white.
Here is an example of the j code mod on my car with yellow lense blacked with tail light tint.


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[TheOriginal]

Thanks for the info, exactly what I was looking for, yes white is maybe my favorite color on most cars. I drove a bit on the highway today and solid it into manumatic mods and it does indeed have 8 gears.

[JD23]

"-flush ALL fluids ( will ensure components last longer)
(OIL, Trans, brake, power steering, coolant, rear diff)"

Flushing a high-mileage automatic transmission is NOT recommended, per ZF.

[Liquid Smoke]

- looks like you do have the Prem+, another way to tell is the AC/heat controls, Plus has the dual controls for driver and pass sides, Premium only has the single.

- coil packs you'll just have to pull them out and see the part #. and yes the R8 as in Audi R8 coils, but they work fine for this car, alot of ppl use them, and if you look at the part # they are actually the same exact part # as the updated/revised A4 coils, just the R8 ones are red thats the only difference. check ecstuning.com you can find parts and #s and info there.

- at 100k, replace your timing tensioner first, the chain along with it but the main concern is the tensioner itself. the chain does get slightly stretched over time but its nothing major and can go till 150k, not like normal timing belts which go quicker. but the tensioner is the one that is known to fail so replace that whenever you can, assuming you dont already have the updated tensioner but prob not. and then might as well do the chain along with it at the same time though.

[TheOriginal]

Thanks for the info, I did a search but it really would've taken me forever to find the info that you guys provided.