Barry Jones
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I have just found this thread and amazingly, at the moment, I have a 69 plate Audi A8 and a 16 plate S350d on my drive (as well as a 2010 S350d)...
4th June, lady pulls out on me, bang... 2010 S Class hits her. S Class is taken away to Merc bodyshop and Accident Exchange set me up with an Audi A8 as a courtesy car... it is crammed with tech. Touch screens (watch the fingerprints, they get everywhere) I have done 5000 miles in the Audi so far and although it is very nice, I find their Distronic equivalent bloody annoying as it constantly changes the speed to match the road sign recognition, but also gets it wrong, so you can be driving along at say 30-31 when all of a sudden, the car thinks it's in a 20 zone and applies the brakes.... not good if you have someone behind you driving too close!
I have been waiting for the 3rd party assessor to come out and give me a value on my 221 as it has already been deemed beyond economic repair, and in the meantime, I have managed to find my replacement 222, a 2016 car in black with very light grey interior (The first of 7 S Classes I have owned which hasn't got a black interior) To be honest, there is no comparison between the two. The S Class is streets ahead of the Audi, even though it is now 4 years old. Everything is where you would expect it to be in the Merc, stuff on the Audi just seems to have been randomly dumped in position. The seats are uncomfortable and there is so much information on the Audis Sat Nav screen, it is unbelievable (It even tells you how far above sea level you are... not much use if you are driving around Leicester!)
It would appear that I still have the Audi for at least another couple of weeks while they haggle over how much to pay me out on the 221, and I will use the Audi as it isn't putting mileage on my S Class... in the meantime, I am fitting the extras I wanted to the 222. I have the fridge, Towbar and boot closer to do next week and have already fitted Carplay and dash cam... and driven it a total of 14 miles in 4 weeks!!
4th June, lady pulls out on me, bang... 2010 S Class hits her. S Class is taken away to Merc bodyshop and Accident Exchange set me up with an Audi A8 as a courtesy car... it is crammed with tech. Touch screens (watch the fingerprints, they get everywhere) I have done 5000 miles in the Audi so far and although it is very nice, I find their Distronic equivalent bloody annoying as it constantly changes the speed to match the road sign recognition, but also gets it wrong, so you can be driving along at say 30-31 when all of a sudden, the car thinks it's in a 20 zone and applies the brakes.... not good if you have someone behind you driving too close!
I have been waiting for the 3rd party assessor to come out and give me a value on my 221 as it has already been deemed beyond economic repair, and in the meantime, I have managed to find my replacement 222, a 2016 car in black with very light grey interior (The first of 7 S Classes I have owned which hasn't got a black interior) To be honest, there is no comparison between the two. The S Class is streets ahead of the Audi, even though it is now 4 years old. Everything is where you would expect it to be in the Merc, stuff on the Audi just seems to have been randomly dumped in position. The seats are uncomfortable and there is so much information on the Audis Sat Nav screen, it is unbelievable (It even tells you how far above sea level you are... not much use if you are driving around Leicester!)
It would appear that I still have the Audi for at least another couple of weeks while they haggle over how much to pay me out on the 221, and I will use the Audi as it isn't putting mileage on my S Class... in the meantime, I am fitting the extras I wanted to the 222. I have the fridge, Towbar and boot closer to do next week and have already fitted Carplay and dash cam... and driven it a total of 14 miles in 4 weeks!!
... it needs a new nearside headlight, bonnet, wing, bumper, reinforcement bar, headlight mounting panel... The third party insurance have paid out and I got to keep the car!! Not sure what to do with it yet, but it is pretty highly spec'd so worth a few bob in spares (I broke my previous 2006 W221 and made double what I would have got selling it as a whole car!) Audi A8 goes back on Wednesday!!
