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From YourSITE.com Reviews & Road Tests Our S4 continues to impress. Other than scheduled maintenance, we’ve had no problems with the car to report – no warranty claims, no dealer problems. Other than a small dent in one door thanks to some jerk in a parking lot and some occasional rubbing thanks to slightly larger tires and our lower suspension state, the ownership experience has been flawless thus far.
7420 miles There’s a running update for Audi’s Navigation Plus system as installed in the A3 and B7 A4/S4/RS 4 models. We pick up a new disc at the dealer, one that initiates a code update and presumably adds new map data. After making the change, functionality for the system is improved. Our favorite of the changes is certainly centered around the now-labeled station “Presets”. Flip to another mode of the Nav plus / Audio head hunit and then back to Radio and you’re automatically ushered back to the Presets section if that’s where you left it. The update also rids our S4 of the annoying liability statement that you need to accept every time you turn on the car. We couldn’t be more pleased. – George Achorn, Managing Editor
7598 miles While in DC and going up a driveway ramp, the front right tire rubs and pushes hard enough up on the fender liner causing the plastic mounting bracket to break. The next day I remove the wheel and take a look at the damage. Luckily the fender liner is fine, only the bracket was broken and the screw head is polished from contact with the tire. After removing the mounting brackets from both front sides, the rubbing no longer continues at the front of the car. – Anthony Garbis, Contributing Editor
7928 miles The S4 returns to Manhattan for an American Le Mans Series press conference near Central Park and Audi’s Cars and Stars event, held at the Audi Forum on Park Avenue to support the ALMS race at Lime Rock the following week. We arrive a half hour ahead of the event, pulling in to the valet at Manhattan’s Tavern on the Green restaurant. As we curve around past the building’s entrance, where several ALMS racecars including the Audi R10 are on display, we notice Audi’s Le Mans-winning driver Marco Werner does a double take on the car – not exactly stock with its larg OZ wheels, but decidedly built in the look of Audi Sport since the R10 and the company’s DTM racecars both roll wheels quite close in design.
We’d later get to sit and chat with Werner during the lunch, hearing his first hand account of the last few hours of this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans. Werner was piloting the car, the last R10 remaining in the race, during a torrential downpour that kept him pacing the track no faster than even his slowest GT2 competitors. “Going down Mulsanne,” he explained, “visibility is very low. You have to trust the drivers in front of you not to apply the brakes as you can’t see anything through the spray kicked up by other cars.” It’s like flying blind. Fortunately our long-term S4 is closed cockpit, a little less exposed to the elements than Werner’s R10. – George Achorn, Manging Editor
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