Audi A4 avant 35 tfsi

[robz]

Jumping around quite a bit with what car I'm going to end up buying and currently looking at a nearly new A4 avant 35 tfsi.

It seems to be the lowest powered engine of the bunch, is it good enough for the car or is it as underpowered as I think it will be?

Anyone had one with this engine able to comment on what it was like?

[nicanary]

The current engine code of Audi has me confused, but apparently 35 means 150bhp. I had a '18 plate A4 Avant with the small 1.4 turbo motor which i ran for 3 years. This was. according to the V5 , a Sport 150 so I think it could be the same engine.

I used it as a load-lugger on local roads only (no motorways) but the performance was more than adequate for my needs. Like most small-capacity petrol engines, the turbo kicked in when the pedal was floored and I had no problem getting past tractors and buses. Fuel consumption was OK-ish but I have a heavy foot. I admit I would have preferred a 2.0 diesel, but the price was attractive. It's a lot of car for the money. It ate tyres for fun.

[AliMc99]

I believe they were initially a 1.4 but in 2019 changed to a detuned 2.0. A work colleague has one and whilst no rocket ship doesn’t feel underpowered

[SteBrown91]

I think it’s a detuned EA888 190 Gen3B - I would imagine if you could find someone to remap it then it will remap nicely to 240iah bhp same as the 190.

[RayDonovan]

It's a 1.5, 150bhp.

I ran one in an Arteon for 4 years. It's ok, laggy and absolutely no mid range. A re-map would probably do it wonders.

Easy to get over 50mpg on a run and caused me no issues in over 60k miles.

[catso]

RayDonovan said:

It's a 1.5, 150bhp.

I ran one in an Arteon for 4 years. It's ok, laggy and absolutely no mid range. A re-map would probably do it wonders.

Easy to get over 50mpg on a run and caused me no issues in over 60k miles.

Presume the same engine as in the 35tfsi Q2, i.e. a 1.5L, 4cyl turbo?

If so, it moves our Q2 around nicely but I would think it might labour in an A4 Avant (but then my A4 Avant is an S4 so I would say that).

I can say it's a very smooth engine though, I often think it's stopped (has start/stop) when it hasn't, is fairly economical and sounds decent when pushed.

Hadn't thought about a remap yet...

[RayDonovan]

catso said:

RayDonovan said:

It's a 1.5, 150bhp.

I ran one in an Arteon for 4 years. It's ok, laggy and absolutely no mid range. A re-map would probably do it wonders.

Easy to get over 50mpg on a run and caused me no issues in over 60k miles.

Presume the same engine as in the 35tfsi Q2, i.e. a 1.5L, 4cyl turbo?

If so, it moves our Q2 around nicely but I would think it might labour in an A4 Avant (but then my A4 Avant is an S4 so I would say that).

I can say it's a very smooth engine though, I often think it's stopped (has start/stop) when it hasn't, is fairly economical and sounds decent when pushed.

Hadn't thought about a remap yet...

Yep, same engine.

[Dr G]

It's totally acceptable for "normal" driving. If you're the sort to simply roll around in it you'll easily see over 40MPG regularly, but for overtakes, sliproads etc. you'll need a decent length of road to get up to speed.

Thave have "enough" go but no more than this.

[SteBrown91]

RayDonovan said:

catso said:

RayDonovan said:

It's a 1.5, 150bhp.

I ran one in an Arteon for 4 years. It's ok, laggy and absolutely no mid range. A re-map would probably do it wonders.

Easy to get over 50mpg on a run and caused me no issues in over 60k miles.

Presume the same engine as in the 35tfsi Q2, i.e. a 1.5L, 4cyl turbo?

If so, it moves our Q2 around nicely but I would think it might labour in an A4 Avant (but then my A4 Avant is an S4 so I would say that).

I can say it's a very smooth engine though, I often think it's stopped (has start/stop) when it hasn't, is fairly economical and sounds decent when pushed.

Hadn't thought about a remap yet...

Yep, same engine.

Its not the 1.5 in the A4. Its a detuned 2.0. I assume as they didn't want to spend the money engineering the 1.5 to work longitudinally.

[RayDonovan]

SteBrown91 said:

RayDonovan said:

catso said:

RayDonovan said:

It's a 1.5, 150bhp.

I ran one in an Arteon for 4 years. It's ok, laggy and absolutely no mid range. A re-map would probably do it wonders.

Easy to get over 50mpg on a run and caused me no issues in over 60k miles.

Presume the same engine as in the 35tfsi Q2, i.e. a 1.5L, 4cyl turbo?

If so, it moves our Q2 around nicely but I would think it might labour in an A4 Avant (but then my A4 Avant is an S4 so I would say that).

I can say it's a very smooth engine though, I often think it's stopped (has start/stop) when it hasn't, is fairly economical and sounds decent when pushed.

Hadn't thought about a remap yet...

Yep, same engine.

Its not the 1.5 in the A4. Its a detuned 2.0. I assume as they didn't want to spend the money engineering the 1.5 to work longitudinally.

Learn something new every day. Ripe for a re-map then..

[Dr G]

Rather than kill the warranty if you're already worried about it not having enough power I'd be tempted to start with a more powerful one.

[Terry Winks]

I literally have just picked one of these up on lease. For day to day tasks its more than enough (coming from a Macan) the fuel economy though seems like its going to be woeful.

[Bobupndown]

If only they had considered a more torquey, economical engine, like say a 2.0tdi....