Hi all...Newbie from Berkshire with an S4 Avant

[y2blade]

Update:
She passed MOT this afternoon, always a relief

[y2blade]

Update 10000miles and almost our first year together.

MOT passed with an advisory that the pads were getting low, so bought a set of PAGID ones (same brand that was on the car) and completely stripped, overhauled and rebuilt the calipers...new pads are bedding in nicely and are sharper that the old ones were already.




Then a much needed clean




Going back in the garage for a chamois and a polish.


Great car

[y2blade]

Update: 11500miles/14months together.

Not much to report tbh.
Truly faultless, has been an absolute please to own and drive.

She's a little dirty right now........

[Ian_C]

My word, is that a Goodwood green RS6 V10?

[y2blade]

Update:

Had the Passenger side rear wheel bearing fail all of a sudden on way to work yesterday morning, it had been running silent from all four corners then yesterday morning a slight hmmmmmmm that literally 5miles later became a more prominent wurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr that came and went as I loaded/unloaded that side of the car and could tell straight away what corner it was coming from.

I've had wheel bearings go on other cars before but none have gone as quickly as that!

Made a call and got a bearing same day by 15:00, finished work at 17:00 then got busy....new bearing done and dusted by 19:30.



Not a bad job tbh, did it off the car and had to disconnect the ABS sensor from under the rear passenger seat and pass it through that way as the sensor wasn't coming off the hub at all...We marked the camber adjuster plates so all went back together exactly as it came off.


All running silent again this morning.

[y2blade]

Still nothing to report, still a lot of flood water along the valley here so she's tucked away polished and fully cleaned inside and out in my garage with an optimate looking after her.

Hence my commuting duties are shared between S60 and XC90 depending what vehicle type MissB needs to use of different days (horsey girl so she has to get bales of hay and suchlike)

I'm really missing not using my S4 daily.

View from XC90 at the weekend, I'm NOT driving my S4 through this sort of thing:

[y2blade]

lol I just found the pics from when I washed/polished her prior to hiding her from the flood water.

Before:

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After about 4hrs:



Interior another 4hrs:



How she looks right now (looks odd as the bonnet propped open for optimate lead)and will do so until the flood waters clear off (seems to be taking forever! ):

[y2blade]

Fired her up this morning and took her out along the hilltop, kept away from the flooded valley roads, got her nice & warm and cleaned the surface rust off the discs.

She felt great really strong, lovely noise....I'd not driven her apart from in and out the garage to wash in about 4-6 weeks.

She soon reminded me how much I enjoy driving her.
Now back in the garage covered and on optimate waiting for flood water to bugger off.

[y2blade]

Update:
My local roads are now flood free and repaired So I got my baby out to stretch her legs, after three months in the XC90 she reminded me how good she is.









Such a great car

[daytonamart]

mmmmmmmmmm....... fresh tarmac!

[y2blade]

Took this one on the way home from work last night.

[mustdash]

That's a great looking car! What colour is it - in some photos it looks black, others a really deep blue and in others a metallic purple (to my eyes anyway!)

[y2blade]

That's a great looking car! What colour is it - in some photos it looks black, others a really deep blue and in others a metallic purple (to my eyes anyway!)

Thanks, she is "Ming Blue".

[y2blade]

Two years together now, has been an absolute pleasure to drive, run and own.
She is no longer my daily driver, the XC90 T6 has taking the commuting duties off her.

Not much to report since last post tbh, MOT went well...She is still not using ANY oil at all between services (every 5-6k iirc), no boost leaks or fault codes either.

Some recent pics:







Still very much smitten with her, the most fun car I've ever owned tbh.

[y2blade]

NOT A VERY EXCITING UPDATE:
The XC90 went to new home two weeks ago so have been commuting in the S4 (while I look for a V8 to commute in), noticed towards the end of last week that the keyfob was only working when you are very close to the car, ordered some new batteries......




all sorted now and never had to resync it either.
Told you it wasn't a very exciting update