U.S. UrS4/UrS6 Historical Sales Figures By Color

U.S. UrS4/UrS6 Historical Sales Figures By Color

by | Dec 21, 2017 | F.A.Q. Area, General Information, Press Releases

How rare ARE they really?

I think everyone who has ever had any real interest in these cars has heard that they were quite rare. Numerous archived automotive pieces often refer to the 250 car allocation for 1992 quickly selling out but how many were sold each year?

Back when I started S-CARS.ORG in 1998 I reached out to Audi of America in hopes of getting an idea of how many cars were sold here from year to year. At that time I was given the data Old AoA provided sales data which was closer than most I had seen elsewhere but was still not entirely accurate. We knew at best these were rough estimates and perhaps Audi would intentionally give us mixed figures as they didn’t want the competition to know how many (or how few) were really being sold.

The thing is that the Germans tend to be rather meticulous types that fuss over details. It seems almost illogical that they would NOT keep records of their sales from year to year. Without that data how would they handle future production forecasts or decide which color combinations to build? Magical 8 ball? I highly doubt it. I always suspected they knew but weren’t telling… or perhaps nobody at Audi cared to put in the effort to really look into it for those who had inquired.

It wasn’t until late 2016 that I started to see owners getting surprisingly detailed responses from Audi with production number break downs. I was highly skeptical and actually dismissed some of the data I had seen as it was clearly wrong. Case in point, it was initially reported that there were only 6 UrS6 Avants finished in Emerald over Ecru. I could easily disprove that based solely off of old S-Car Registry entries and some old KAR of MN archives and knowledge of current owners. It did however get me thinking and I decided to contact Audi with several VINs of my owns cars and a few friends cars. This time the numbers started lining up and we were at least getting consistent responses for the first time… ever?

I have no idea what may have changed at Audi that would enable them to generate the type of break-downs by color combination that I was now getting but it was an interesting trail to follow so I decided to keep working at it. I had been working with someone named Katie at Audi of America Customer Experience who was extremely helpful and seemed to be able to search the database to get some interesting results. These new numbers actually seem to have at least of shred of accuracy compared with what we’d been told in the past.
It is hard to say that it is 100% accurate but cross checking multiple VINs through several different contacts at Audi Customer Experience seemed to be generating the same results and Katie seemed to grasp what she was doing.

Sadly, as you will see below we didn’t quite finish our research. Instead of Katie’s helpful response we heard from Jamie at Audi who quickly put up a wall blocking our request for the final set of data. Naturally this makes obtaining the last bit of the data we need way more complicated than it needs to be. Audi Customer Experience could learn a lot from Katie… but unfortunately I think many of us have experienced more of the “Jamie” from them in the past. 😉

The next quest aside from filling in the missing data is to start trying to disprove the numbers. Naturally that is easiest to do with the uber rare colors such as Travertine or certain combinations of Tornado Red or Europa Blue. The more cars we can get into the S-Car Registry, the better idea we’ll have of actual survival rates. Even if you just happen to spot one “in the wild” shoot a picture of it with the license plate visible and email it to me at editor AT s-cars.org and I can likely get the data I need to at least log it in the Registry as a survivor. Thanks!

Total U.S. Sales: 297

Tornado Red Exterior Sales:
Tornado Red with Anthracite Leather: 35
Tornado Red with Ecru Leather:

Brilliant Black Exterior Sales: 92
Brilliant Black with Anthracite Leather: 38
Brilliant Black with Ecru Leather:

Pearl White Exterior Sales:
Pearl White with Anthracite Leather:
Pearl White with Ecru Leather:

Emerald Mica Exterior Sales:
Emerald Mica with Anthracite Leather:
Emerald Mica with Ecru Leather:
Emerald Mica with Ecru velour interior:

Crystal Silver Metallic Exterior Sales:
Crystal Silver Metallic with Anthracite Leather:

Cyclamen Red Mica Exterior Sales:
Cyclamen Red Mica with Travertine Leather:
Cyclamen Red Mica with Ecru Leather:

Titanium Grey Metallic Exterior with Anthracite Leather:

Total U.S. Sales: 694 (per AoA on Sept. 1, 2017)

Tornado Red Exterior Sales: 50
Tornado Red with Anthracite Leather: 39
Tornado Red with Ecru Leather: 11

Brilliant Black Exterior Sales: 178
Brilliant Black with Anthracite Leather: 112
Brilliant Black with Ecru Leather: 66

Pearl White Exterior Sales: 188
Pearl White with Anthracite Leather: 125
Pearl White with Ecru Leather: 63

Emerald Mica Exterior Sales: 232
Emerald Mica with Anthracite Leather: 82
Emerald Mica with Ecru Leather: 149
Emerald Mica with Ecru velour interior: 1

Crystal Silver Metallic Exterior Sales: 43
Crystal Silver Metallic with Anthracite Leather: 43

Cyclamen Red Mica Exterior Sales: 12
Cyclamen Red Mica with Travertine Leather: 1
Cyclamen Red Mica with Ecru Leather: 11 (estimated)

Titanium Grey Metallic Exterior with Anthracite Leather: 2

Total U.S. Sales: 399 (per AoA on Sept. 27, 2017)

Tornado Red Exterior Sales: 20
Tornado Red with Anthracite Leather: 15
Tornado Red with Ecru Leather: 5

Brilliant Black Exterior Sales: 87
Brilliant Black Exterior with Anthracite Leather: 50
Brilliant Black Exterior with Ecru Leather: 37

Crystal Silver Metallic Exterior Sales: 30
Crystal Silver Metallic with Anthracite Leather: 29
Crystal Silver Metallic with Platinum Leather: 1

Pearl White Exterior Sales: 112
Pearl White with Anthracite Leather: 77
Pearl White with Ecru Leather: 35 (one other data point says 5 cars)

Emerald Mica Metallic Exterior Sales: 144
Emerald Mica Metallic with Anthracite Leather: 35
Emerald Mica Metallic with Ecru Leather: 108
Emerald Mica Metallic with Ecru Velour: 1

Europa Blue Mica with Ecru Leather: 6

Total U.S. Sales: 930 (includes 95 and 95.5) (per AoA on Sept. 26, 2017 )

Brilliant Black Exterior Sales: 298 (one other report says 246)
Brilliant Black with Platinum Leather: 1
Brilliant Black with Anthracite Leather: 146
Brilliant Black with Ecru Leather: 60
Brilliant Black with unknown interior: 33

Casablanca White Exterior Sales: 11
Casablanca White with Anthracite Leather: 9
Casablanca White with Ecru Leather: 1
Casablanca White with unknown interior: 1

Cashmere Grey Mica Exterior Sales: 43
Cashmere Grey Mica with Platinum Leather: 5
Cashmere Grey Mica with Ecru Leather: 1
Cashmere Grey Mica with Anthracite Leather: 28
Cashmere Grey Mica with unknown interior: 9

Crystal Grey Mica Exterior Sales: 71
Crystal Grey Mica with Platinum Leather: 30
Crystal Grey Mica with Anthracite Leather: 41

Tornado Red Exterior Sales: 73
Tornado Red with Anthracite Leather: 47
Tornado Red with Ecru Leather: 24
Tornado Red with unknown interior: 2

Europa Blue Mica Exterior Sales: 34
Europa Blue Mica with Ecru Leather: 12
Europa Blue Mica with Platinum Leather: 12
Europa Blue Mica with Anthracite Leather: 1
Europa Blue Mica with unknown interior: 9

Pearl Effect White Exterior Sales: 39
Pearl Effect White with Anthracite Leather: 15
Pearl Effect White with unknown interior: 24

Pearl White Metallic Exterior Sales: 74
Pearl White Metallic with Ecru Leather: 35
Pearl White Metallic with Anthracite Leather: 39

Emerald Mica Metallic Exterior Sales: 221
Emerald Mica Metallic with Anthracite Leather: 31
Emerald Mica Metallic with Ecru Leather: 128
Emerald Mica Metallic with unknown interior: 62

Unknown Exterior Color: 63
Unknown with Anthracite Cloth: 1
Unknown with Platinum Leather: 29
Unknown with Anthracite Leather: 32
Unknown with Unknown: 1

Total U.S. Sales: 459 (per AoA on Sept. 1, 2017)  Data is obviously incomplete.
One other report shows 549 sold but majority have reported 459.

Tornado Red Exterior Sales: 24
Tornado Red with Anthracite Leather: 15
Tornado Red with Ecru Leather: 9

Pearl Effect White Exterior Sales: 32
Pearl Effect White with Anthracite Leather: 15
Pearl Effect White with Ecru Leather: 5
Pearl Effect White with Platinum Leather: 12
*Several conflicting reports for pearl sales figures. Some say 32 total sold, one other reports 15 sold. More data needed before we’d be comfortable declaring these as truly accurate.

Emerald Mica Exterior Sales: 115
Emerald Mica with Anthracite Leather: 19 (previously reported as 83 -likely incorrect)
Emerald Mica with Ecru Leather: 96 (96 estimated based on 19 Emerald/Anthracite. Previously reported as 32)

Cashmere Grey Mica Exterior Sales:
Cashmere Grey Mica with Anthracite Leather: 15
Cashmere Grey Mica with Ecru Leather:

Aluminum Silver Metallic Exterior Sales: 63
Aluminum Silver Metallic with Anthracite Leather: 32
Aluminum Silver Metallic with Platinum Leather: 29
Aluminum Silver Metallic with Ecru Leather: 2

Brilliant Black Exterior Sales: 114
Brilliant Black with Platinum Leather: 27
Brilliant Black with Black Leather:
Brilliant Black with Ecru Leather:

Europa Blue Mica Exterior Sales: 29
Europa Blue Mica with Ecru Leather:
Europa Blue Mica with Platinum Leather:
Europa Blue Mica with Anthracite Leather: 2

We Need Your Help!

As many of you know, for several months I have been digging for VINs for each color combination of UrS4 and UrS6 (and Avant) in the U.S. in order to get import numbers and data on each. So far I’ve had a very good connection at Audi (many thanks Katie!) that has been assisting me all along. I’m in the home stretch now and had sent my final email that would help fill in the blanks. On December 21st, 2017 I received the following response (see image) from someone named Jamie at Audi of America stating that they could no longer help me with this information.

How about that for a nice lump of coal from Audi of America just in time for Christmas? Apparently rather than me efficiently compiling a list of color combinations with VINs in one email they could just research and reply to they’d rather get hundreds of emails from individual owners asking the same thing over and over again. Fine. Let’s blow up their inbox with UrS4 and UrS6 production number requests and maybe they will “listen” to their long time enthusiasts.

If you own a U.S. model 1992 or 1995 (1995.5) Audi S4, S6, S6 Avant please help me out by sending the following info to Audi using the form below. Please remember to forward your response from Audi to us at ed****@****rs.org

Seeking Audi sales figures for my car

Sony/Blaupunkt 10 CD Changer

Sony/Blaupunkt 10 CD Changer

by | Jan 25, 2014 | Audio and Electronics

The Audi 10 CD changer was manufactured by Blaupunkt under license from Sony, which would make it a Blau/Sony with Audi markings. I figured that a Sony was going to be easier to find, so that’s what I ended up with. The unit in my car is a Sony CDX-A30, which fits the stock mounting brackets perfectly.

AFAIK, as long as it has the single 13 pin DIN cable hookup (the blue cable shown in the picture) it should interface properly with the stock radio and transceiver (the transceiver is what makes the changer visible to the radio).

Part numbers:
Transceiver: 4A0 035 239 (Blaupunkt 7 607 765 082)
Bracket: 4A5 035 113 (sedan)
Cover: 4A0 863 716 (sedan)

FWIW, a quick search on “Sony CDX-A30” at deja.com turned up the following information – Caveat emptor, no warranty expressed or implied, etc. 😉

John Durbin wrote:

In chronological order:
Sony CDX-A20 OK, a little noisy esp. with some head models
Sony CDX-A30 Watch for leaky caps taking out the +/- 5V DC converter Sony CDX-A2001 30V supply driving the audio stage, nice D/A converter Sony CDX-A15 Leaky cap problem solved during CDX-A15 production Sony CDX-A100 suspension, last of the big rotary loaders Sony CDX-A55 DIN cable is M-M instead of M-F, jams to clear

John Durbin, DEI Audio

Steve

UrS4 / UrS6 Airbag Warning Light Fix

UrS4 / UrS6 Airbag Warning Light Fix

by | Jan 25, 2014 | Airbag and Safety Systems

This procedure addresses the false two-minute airbag warning light that occurs upon vehicle startup for some vehicles.

Tools:

vehicle maintenance records
thin blade screwdriver
4 mm allen wrench
VAG-COM
flashlight

Procedure:

If you have a ’92, verify that the KF14 recall was done on your car. If so, you have an AIRBAG II system. The dealer can tell by your S/N if the recall was done. If not, then let the dealer upgrade your airbag and fix the light for free! Pry the trim piece off that surrounds your HVAC Central Control. BE CAREFUL to go slowly. See the procedure here: HVAC Head Unit Trim Removal. Unscrew the two 4 mm Allen Head screws that hold on the trim piece spring clips. Lift out the central control unit and swing it out so it rest on the passenger seat. Use a flashlight to help you see the AIRBAG triggering unit (labeled as such). Note the connector on the left side of the triggering unit and note the grey foam that is just above the connector. Inside the foam are the two 2-pin connectors that hook up to the VAG-COM. These connectors are identical to the ones under the left side of the hood, used to access fault codes. Push back the foam to connect the VAG-COM. Turn vehicle ignition to ON. Follow the VAG-COM menu to view and clear your fault codes: Menu 1 – Click Select Menu 2 – Click 15 – Airbags

Menu 3 – Click Fault Codes – 02

Menu 4 – Click Clear Codes – 05


Install is reverse of uninstall. You’re finished!

Rob Pecsar

Europrice Short Shift Kit Installation

Europrice Short Shift Kit Installation

by | Jan 25, 2014 | Drivetrain

While this write-up is specific to the Europrice SSK, it should be applicable to any SSK that replaces the whole shifter assembly, and can be used to R&R the stock shifter assembly if replacing worn parts. Read though the whole procedure first, as there are some reference marks that will be useful during reassembly. Make sure your shifter is in neutral.

Step 1: Remove rear console. Thisis described in a separate write-up.
Step 2: Remove front console. This is described in a separate write-up.
Step 3: Remove crossmember. Crossmember isheld on with ten (10) 13mm nuts (Figure 1).

Figure 1 and 2

Step 4: Separate exhaust system from downpipe. If you have a Stromung, you will need to remove the center section only. If you have a stock system, you may get away with only having to remove the cats, but will probably have to slide the rest of the system rearward for clearance to work.
Step 5: Remove two (2) 13mm retaining bolts from torque rod and shift rod connections (Figure 2). Along extension on a 3/8 ratchet worked for me. You shouldn’t need a universal joint. Mark the torque and shift rods for insertion depth into the forward rods for reference before removal.
Step 6: Remove the four (4) 10mm bolts holding the top portion of the stop bracket, and remove the bracket (Figure 3). Take notice of bolt positions asthese hold the rear locator that accepts the pin on the rear of the shift assembly.

Figure 3 and 4

Step 7: Remove the insulation blanket from around the shifter assembly (Figure 4).
Step 8: Remove the four (4) 10mm nuts holding the lower portion of the stop bracket, and remove the bracket (Figure 5).

Figure 5 and 6

Step 9: Remove the whole shifter assembly with weather boot by lifting up and out towards the rear. You may have to wiggle it slightly to get everythingmoving (Figure 6). Don’t be concerned with the splines on the torque and shifter rods. The forward rods attached to the transmission are not splined on the inside at the connection points.
Step 10: Clean and transfer the weather boot to your SSK. Measure and transfer your insertion depth reference marks made in Step 5 to the SSK rods.

Weighting of SSK shift rod
If you do not plan to weight your shift rod, skip this section and go to the Reassembly Tips section.
Step 11: Lock your SSK in a vise as shown (Figure 7).
Step12: I went to Pep Boys to ask if I could grab some used wheelweights out of the junk bucket next to the tire changer. While I was rummaging through to find the cleanest ones I could, one of the mechanics came up and gave me a box of brand new ones. Score! Anyway, you need to obtain some lead wheel weights. I used approximately 14oz of weights to fill up the hollow in the shift rod.

Figure 7 and 8

Step 13: Remove the steel clips from the wheel weights. Heat the weights in some type of container. I used a plumber’s ladle (Figure 8) I had which was used for running lead plumbing joints way back when. You can still get these fromplumbing supply housesfor around $35 if you are so inclined. I used an acetylene “B” tank for my heat source.
Step 14: Heat the weights until they liquefy, and pour into the shift rod (Figure 9). You should probably wear a mask when heating the lead asI’m sure lead fumes are not good to inhale.

Figure 9

Re-assembly Tips
Step 15: I used anti-seize on the torque and shift rod ends to facilitate disassembly again in the future. Reinstall the SSK through the opening inthe floor. Line up the rod connections from underneath. There are no splines onthe inside of the forward rods, so don’t worry about alignment. Get the retaining bolts started to keep everything from coming apart.
Step 16: Reinstall the lower portion of the stop bracket, and tighten. Make sure you slip the rubber support over the pin on the rear of the shifter assembly. Reinstall the top portion of the stop bracket. Before tightening the bracket in place, make sure your transmission is still in neutral, and align your side-to-side shifter assembly position (for neutral). Tighten down the top portion of the stop bracket.
Step 17: Set the front-to-back shifter assembly position (for neutral) by adjusting to the marks on the torque and shifter rods made in Step 5. Tighten the torque and shift rod retaining bolts. Reinstall the insulation blanket around the shifter assembly.
Step 18: Reinstall your front and rear consoles and you’re done.

FAQ by Steven Young
You can also download this FAQ as a PDF.

AAN Compression Test – Acceptable Specifications

AAN Compression Test – Acceptable Specifications

by | Jan 16, 2014 | Engine

The acceptable “Compression Pressures” are:

Specified Value: 9.0 to 13.0 Bar (131 to 189 psi) (ED: 1 BAR = about 14.5 psig)
Wear Limit: 7.0 Bar (102 psi)
Maximum permissible pressure difference between individual cylinders: 3.0 Bar (44 psi)

I do not like to see more then 10%– but that is me and does not mean that your engine might have unacceptable leakage. Perform a leak down test and see if it can be determined where the leak is coming from. If you hear it out of the CC breather or oil fill then you may have ring wear. With the hard cylinder coating and the ring design these days, I have found that cylinder leakage is not as common.

More often you hear it out of the exhaust or intake. Have a friend go back to the exhaust tip if you run it again to take a listen.

If it is the valve seating (I assume you did this at TDC) you may simply have carbon build up and a good tank of BG44 may improve your readings.

Contributors: Mark T / Dave F

1994 UrS4 Side Mirror Glass Replacement

by | May 31, 2013 | C4 UrS4/S6 FAQ, F.A.Q. Area

Sooner or later most UrS4/UrS6 owners find that their rear view mirrors have started to delaminate.  Why put up with decreased vision and an ugly mirror when a replacement heated mirror glass can be had for about $85 from your Audi dealer?

Removing and replacing this mirror is far from difficult but I figured it still wouldn’t hurt to put up a quick video FAQ on the subject.

 

Additional notes: On the later cars the outside mirrors were often a two piece design with a black plastic piece on the bottom that is held in with several screws. Many people find that removing this trim piece allows for easier access to the mounting tabs that hold the mirror glass in place. Naturally, this makes it less likely that you will break these tabs during the removal process. In my case, using the two tire levers and a small flat screwdriver made for quick removal without any damage but you may want to err on the side of caution if you tend to be heavy handed. 🙂