Fast, frugal and family friendly, there remains plenty to recommend the Audi's first diesel S car.
Note for reference: car weight and power data are hard to pin down with absolute certainty. For consistency, we use the same source for all our guides. We hope the data we use is right more often than it’s wrong. Our advice is to treat it as relative rather than definitive.Apologies to diesel dislikers, but the star of the SQ5 show was its biturbo engine.
The servicing schedule was conventional, 10k miles or annually. Brake fluid was to be changed every two years. Instead of a timing belt the 3.0 TDI had a chain that was designed to last for the life of the vehicle. At the time of writing at least Audi UK’s moneysaving ‘All-in’ service plan for vehicles three-six years old didn’t cover anything with an engine bigger than 2.0 litres, and even late diesel SQ5s would probably be too old for that anyway.
Hill descent control was part of the standard spec, but the uncertainty of the chassis and the firmness of the ride meant that you still needed to exercise a degree of care off the road. Having said all that, let’s not get carried away here. This was essentially a very safe and dependable car. The stability control was very keen to step in and there was always the saving grace of all-wheel drive.
There was no shortage of equipment with electric leather memory seats with heated fronts, three-zone climate control, digital radio, electric/heated door mirrors, blind spot info, lane departure warning, auto xenon headlights, auto wipers, parking sensors, driver break warning , the list goes on somewhere else. Lots of storage opportunities too, but sat-nav wasn’t standard until the 2017 petrol SQ5 came along with its flash new Virtual Cockpit.
The basic Q5 was awarded excellent crash protection and occupant safety scores by Euro NCAP in 2009, so you’d like to think that the 2013-on SQ5 not only won’t be worse but also might be better.You don’t see many complaints about SQ5s. That’s partly because very little goes wrong with them, but owners’ even-tempered attitudes might also reflect their rational acceptance of the SQ5 not being the most exciting car to drive.
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