Been reading this forum for the past few months and placed my order today for a 2011 Q5 3.2 Premium with SLine, B&O, Nav and Adaptive Headlights in Meteor Grey & Cinnamon Brown: Now I just have to wait for my mid to late August delivery date....patience truly is a virtue.

 

Congrats! It's going to be a looooong couple of months!

 

Yes, congrats! It's worth the wait!

 

Congrats, we also picked the similar combination...i noticed you said Adaptive Headlights, I was told that the 2011 no longer equips with that?

 

It's a "special order" item for $300, and no "order fee".

 

Hmmm... I already ordered my 2011 and just assumed it had adaptive headlights.... bummer.
Is it worth trying to change my order? anyone that can speak to what these headlights give you over the standard ones that come with the model?

Are there any other things that the 2011 premium trim is 'missing' compared to the 2010 model year?

(if so, i'm going to try to do a last minute change to the order...)

 

As long as you have xenon lights adaptive in my opinion isn't that usefull. It's nice that when your steering turns the lights turn with it but there is a slight delay. I don't find them useful but others might.

 

The dealer told me similar things...there must be something that made Audi decided to exclude the Adaptive lights.

If you travel in rural area much, it is more useful. If you drive mostly in the city, then no.


Besides this, I don't recall any other major feature "missing" in 2011.

 

I agree that in the city there is virtually no value. My girlfriend has a 2010 A4 Avant with Adaptive lights and on the highway I find them to be very beneficial. My current vehicle has xenon and I find the cut-off (especially the driver'side) to be a disadvantage when going around bends/turns on the highway. I find that the adaptive lights adequately compensate the xenon beam cut-off pattern.

 

Update. My Q5 arrived on Wednesday Sept 15 and the next morning I was off to Winnipeg for three days of golf with my buds (I did take some pics and got the manual so that I had some reading material for the flight). Picking up the Q tomorrow (Sept 21) as the the front side windows were being tinted and the 3m paint protection was being applied today. Coincidentally my winter wheels (18" MSW Type 14 Silver Painted) and tires (Michelin Latitude Alpins) that I ordered from tirerack arrive tomorrow as well.

For those who ordered Sline, what brand & model tires did you receive? Mine came with Bridgestone Dueler HP Sports and based upon the info at tirerack they appear to be very decent overall. I'm curious as to what your experience has been with the Sline tires.

A special thanks to Tony (Regina_TTS) for the info on the Cdn Tire tire rack. It looks great mounted on the garage wall. I will post some pics (of the Q) on Wednesday.