Picked up my new toy today

**AndyE66** · 12-04-2008,11:43 PM

Picked up my Phantom Black 1.8 SE this morning

Everything I expected and more! Even better as I only ordered it 10 days ago - the dealer had virtually the spec I wanted in group stock, will retrofit cruise for free and based the price on a car without parking sensors despite them being fitted

I shall no doubt be conducting extensive road tests over the next few days, when I'm not cleaning it!

**AndyH123** · 13-04-2008,09:55 AM

Superb!

Cleaned my phantom black for the first time yesterday, so that's, um, 2 weeks from new I think. And then it rained. And then it chucked down hail stones again.

Anyway, retro-fit cruise you say? My dealer has promised this too, but they seem to be changing their tune slightly. We've gone from:

- Yep, it'll be done before you pick up the car
- Er, we tried, but noticed we've got cruise from an A5, not sure its compatible
- We're going to try it on one of ours before we do yours

Can you keep us posted on your experience with retro-fit cruise please? I'll do the same.

**AndyE66** · 13-04-2008,10:42 AM

Will do. I need to confirm with the service dept early in the week but the current plan is to bring it back in next Friday. It says cruise on the invoice so I'll hound them until they do it!

Also going to pick up the newly released iPhone cradle for the BT and see if that works as advertised. I was pleasantly surprised that the iPhone paired and transferred the phonebook without hassle as they're a bit temperamental.

Was going to give the car a good clean and wax today but it's currently chucking it down so that's on hold.

**Smudge973** · 13-04-2008,12:53 PM

Hello - New to this site...

Just about to order me 2.0 TDI SE with a few extas inc 18" - in Phantom black - This is a company lease car.

I have been waiting for 4 months for the B8 version to appear on the lease list.

I'm dreading the news re the wait etc.

How are you finding the performance, handling etc.

Regards,
Andy

**AndyE66** · 13-04-2008,09:03 PM

Originally Posted by Smudge973

How are you finding the performance, handling etc.

Regards,
Andy

Need to find a road that's free enough from speed cameras and pottering Mondeos to find out but from what I can tell the ride is good, steering's responsive, brakes are nice and progressive and there's enough power on tap though you do need to work the gears to get it motoring briskly. Be interesting to see how it loosens up.