r/etron

Hey everyone, I'll be buying a used EV in the next month or so and the OG e-tron has been my top contender for quite a while now. I do worry a liiiiittle bit about the range with my commute though, for those of you with a 2019 to 2021 e-tron what year do you have and what is your real life highway range?

My commute is 90 miles each way, almost purely interstate. I know that the 2019 has a slightly lower EPA range, but I've seen that a software update puts it more on par with the 2021 if I remember correctly. If I had to go 75 or maybe even 70 instead of 80 and/or maybe had to stop for a quick little charge when it's really cold that'd be fine, but if I bought one then ended up having to stop for a quick charge every damn day that'd be major regret.

New to Audi. This car has 22k on it for $30k. At an Audi dealer.

Also looking at MB EQS. Been a Mercedes guy forever. The Audi is half the price.

Any input or opinions would be appreciated:)

2021 Sportback PP

...from the dealer: new rear motor, new passenger side door locks, brake pedal recall, and MMI fixes. Took 17 days. Dealer gave me a loaner. Everything covered under CPO/motor warranty.

The cool thing is MMI update adds CarPlay direction info to the dash:

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MMI version is now 4430 (previously 3696):

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Currently looking at etron GTs and noticed they have some incentives if you take their finance (free charger, free install, 2y warranty and 2y servicing).

I don’t need the finance but may aswell take it and clear once I’ve got the incentives. But I was wondering what the maximum deposit they allowed. Looking online I’ve got mixed answers, some saying you can borrow as little as £1.5k. Others saying there’s a minimum % of the invoice amount you must borrow.

I’m sure dealers will want me to borrow as much as possible, so unlikely to get a straight forward answer. Other option is to ask Audi FS directly, but unsure if they’ll address my qs until I’m a perspective customer.

Thanks

Bought a 2019 e-tron for my daughter a few weeks ago. Charged it to 100% and it showed 104 mi of range (EPA is 204).

Ran a discharge test today: 55 miles driven from 100% → 11%, 2.8 mi/kWh average. Math says ~22 kWh usable vs 83.6 original. SoH ~27%. At 11% I'm showing 29 miles or range so that would imply 84 miles from start to finish! I'm in South Florida and driving normally, non-highway.

Still in warranty (8yr/100k, in-service March 2020, currently at 49,307 mi). All recalls done at Audi dealers. Have photos, trip computer screens, and CSV export as evidence and going to dealer tomorrow to get a battery test and perhaps open a warranty claim.

Anyone with an e-tron SUV actually get a pack replaced under warranty? How many visits did it take, and any tips for getting them to escalate to TACS quickly?

Hey guys,

I got the red "Electrical System Malfunction" this morning as I was pulling out of the drive to take the kiddo to school. Luckily it was on the road and not a dead stop in the driveway so I could take my truck, but ... man! I stopped behind a parked car to let the traffic go when the dash just blew up with errors and finished with a red electrical system warning, car was already stopped as I was waiting and that's where she stayed until the tow came.

I was getting constant TPMS errors on almost every startup, and the occasional yellow system warning, but I thought it was just the 12v battery (that I've yet to replace... been very lazy about it!) but I guess it was more of an early warning sign that something larger was to come.

I used the Audi app to organize a tow, which cost me $167 (can that be reimbursed, especially if it's a warranty fix for the motor or the high voltage system?) to go 7 miles. Neither here nor there, it is what it is. I just wasn't expecting it. I can always claim it on insurance as well if I needed to, I guess...?

My question to the much more knowledgable and longer tenured users here: what are the chances that this is the coolant ingress issue or high voltage battery and not some insanely expensive part? I'm really hoping it's the motor or battery as that's covered by warranty. The car is a 2022 E-Tron with 76500 miles (ish). Based on what I could research, this is likely the coolant issue, but ... I guess Audi will tell me when they've diaged the car, it went into the workshop at 3PM today, which is pretty impressive given that it got to them around 11AM. Gotta give them props for that.

Thank you, all. I appreciate any insight!

I had luck eliminating the door rattles after removing my door panel and spending a day investigating possible rattling locations and applying felt tape to the problem areas. But the door pull still made an extremely cheap plastic creaking sound when grabbing it. worse if you tried to crank on it a bit. So since i had a random day off today, i pulled the panel out again and figured out how to get rid of that shit too. After unscrewing about say..... 20-30 screws, i had both the lower speaker grill out (had to come out first to get the door pull out), and the whole door pull. which included the window switches and side mirror controls. Once out, i separated the plastic housing from the leather door pull and found a bunch of plastic clips. No doubt these were the primary culprit. I also went ahead and covered each screw cover with felt tape also. So after going through almost a full roll of felt tape and finishing both doors, 100% of my issues with these doors are finally GONE. here are some photos of how i applied the felt tape. and yes, i was bored AF today.

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see my e-tron forum posting here on what i did to eliminate the door rattling.
https://www.e-tronforum.com/threads/door-rattles.10571/

As everyone has heard we will be running out gas by July. I do a lot of cross country driving. Sure I want the longest range but I don’t want to buy from Elon.

Is an etron doable for cross country trip? I’m the sort of person who stops every 2 to 4 to 6 hours for a 30 minute to an hour break anyway.

Are these vehicles fully electric or are they a hybrid? I’ve been a little confused as I’ve been reading online.