We've had our long-term Audi R8 for six weeks, exactly half of its 3-month stay with us. And so far we've driven it 7,493 miles. Not bad.
According to its computer, our silver supercar is almost due for its 15,000 mile service, which would be its second bit of scheduled maintenance (the first was performed at 5,000 miles). We'll easily cover the remaining 700 miles this weekend, and take the car to Santa Monica Audi sometime next week. While it's there, we'll also have a couple of other small problems addressed. Minor stuff, including a slightly loose piece of console trim and a dying keyfob battery.
Scott Oldham, Inside Line Editor in Chief @ 14,534 miles
cah11705 says:
02:23 PM, 07/18/08
loose piece of console trim? in an audi? at 15000k?
thats unexpected
lazyhater says:
05:07 PM, 07/18/08
keyfob battery dying on a 15k miles 2008 car? WOW!
Our 2003 keyfob is still working perfectly on it's original battery.
huyracing says:
08:36 PM, 07/18/08
nice, please let us know how service goes... although it might be a bit biased since its an R8.
dragonflight says:
08:39 PM, 07/18/08
It's probably gone through journalist hell before it came to the Edmunds garage, which might explain the keyfob and trim.
speeder31 says:
09:18 PM, 07/18/08
Is the display in the photo suggesting that those 700 miles will be covered over 334 days? Not the way you guys have been driving it... ;o)
carmizvi says:
08:49 PM, 07/20/08
Trim: Must have gotten some lessons from the Saturn factory.
dougtheeng says:
06:07 AM, 07/21/08
Yah I'm surprised the car computer doesn't estimate the number of days until service based on recent driving patterns.
bimmerjay says:
10:09 AM, 07/21/08
"It's probably gone through journalist hell before it came to the Edmunds garage, which might explain the keyfob and trim."
True that, I've seen press cars and they can be pretty badly abused - especially high performance cars that get wrung out by every publication that tested it before you. Edmunds got this one with around 7k on the clock IIRC, which is probably equivalent to 30k+ private-owner miles.