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Sedans Audi A4 Audi A4 Bluetooth Questions
28 messages, Last post on Sep 18, 2009 at 11:12 PM
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I leased a 2007 Audi A4 Cabriolet with the 3.2 litre engine a few months ago, and it drives great. A lot of fun to drive. But I am very unhappy about incompatibility of the Bluetooth with my cell phones. I had a V710 from Verizon and it synched up only one out about 10% of of the time I got in the car. Three days after I drove the car out of the showroom, I was told by the salesperson that the Bluetooth only worked with certain phones--a short list of about six phones. One phone on Audi's approved list--which I was shown only after I leased the car--was a Motorola Razr. I called Audi HQ and complained about the problem but was told that nothing could be done. Last week, I upgraded my phone to the new Razr Maxx. This phone synchs up most of the time with the Audi, but not always. This is atrocious. A $55,000 luxury car should have Bluetooth compatibility. Bluetooth 1.2 and 2.0 is a standard for headphones, headsets, computers and all kinds of devices. There is no excuse for Audi not to make this work right. I'll call Audi next week and report back here on the company's response. In the meantime, if anyone else in the group is experiencing similar issues, please post here. Audi should have told me BEFORE I leased the car that its Bluetooth wouldn't work with too many phones and that I would need to buy an outdated phone to make it work. Audi should also fix the problem if it is as widespread as I suspect. By the way, both of these phones synch up with my wife's 2007 Mercedes E350.
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and so did another guy I ran into at my dealership. I have an A4 and he has an A8. We both have Verizon cellphones. My Bluetooth connection works about one third of the time. Sometimes it shuts down my cellphone entirely, so that it won't even restart and I have to pop out the battery to power it up. Everyone at the dealship says that they are clueless. A service tech did tell me that "you can't use a cellphone charger with Bluetooth on because it fries the connection." But this is just part of the problem- even when I don't use my phone charger, I have problems. |
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| I just came from a dealership where i saw a guy come in with an S8 and had that problem. Couldn't believe it brand new $100,000 car and things don't work on it. The service rep started trying to explain about bluetooth formats, but thankfully the guy was a techy and explained to the rep that there are only two types 1.1 and 2.0 i cracked a smirk when he continued on to say that if someone didn't fix it fast there would be hell to pay. | |
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Hi folks. I have a BMW X5, that I have retrofitted the factory BT connection, and I had problems with my RAZR - at one time it would connect (and I would have crackling noise on line), at another time it would not. One thing was established - the phone and the car were capable of connecting to each other. The problem that I had was in the location of the BT antenna - it was oriented in the wrong direction, so, instead of covering the cabin of the car, the direction of the signal was aimed to the back and outside of the car. So, I turned the antenna 180 degrees, and now I have a nice and steady connection every single time. I understand, that you, as a consumer who bought/leased the car with the factory BT option, should not be getting your hands dirty with locating and reorienting the factory installed hardware, but it may help your trusted and lovely AUDI tech do the work for you. Your problem is obviously of the signal strength and possibly low location of the antenna, which could be a design flaw. When they are talking about a list of phone and etc., they mean that some phones can transfer the phone book, do the SMS and whatever else, while some of the phone might not support certain functions - all BT phones would pair and should give you at least a basic "headphone" ability. Same things are happening in BMW world... 
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Replying to: 10hazguy (Apr 28, 2007 2:24 pm) |
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Replying to: 10hazguy (Apr 28, 2007 2:24 pm) |
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I'm looking at installing a Parrot CK3000 Evolution in my '04 cabriolet. I HAVE the Bose Symphony II audio system installed and found an install piece on AudiWorld but it acknowledged that the Bose system was another cat altogether. Anybody have any experience with this or other aftermarket BT interface? KevinF Minnetonka, MN |
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I just bought an Audi A4 with Bluetooth; hence, I need a Bluetooth phone now. However, I don't want to break my T-Mobile contract so I am thinking about buying the Samsung Blast (T-729). Has anyone had luck connecting the Blast to their car? Thanks. Also, if anyone with a T-Mobile phone could reply with information on their phone, would be great. |
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Replying to: dk123 (Sep 18, 2007 8:16 am) Good luck with your setup. KevinF
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Replying to: kflanigan (Sep 18, 2007 2:25 pm) On another note I have the 07 A4 cab - gas mileage is terrible no where near the 20/30 they state. Has anyone had this issue. they checked it out on the computer and no issues showed up |
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