At Audi Pensacola, we encourage customers to keep a wrench, inflated spare tire and jack in their trunks, ready to handle any flat tire emergency. If your tire blows out on the road, reduce your speed immediately and look for a nearby paved parking lot or quiet side street as a safe place to replace the malfunctioning tire with the spare.

Put a wedge against the opposite tire, loosen the lug nuts, then jack up the car about six inches above the ground. 

Audi Connect®: Luxury Intelligence

Audi has long been known for its high-tech German-engineered engine, drive-train, and mechanical technology, but not as many people realize just how smart Audi vehicles are. Audi Connect® combines navigation, entertainment, and information in innovative ways not often seen. Audi's new available instrument cluster features a high definition screen powered by an NVIDIA® quad-core processor. 

Extreme temperatures can affect your vehicle’s battery and create a slow start or problems with keeping the engine running. There are some measures you can take to test the battery if you suspect it may not be charging at full capacity. Check the fluid level in the cells prior to running a voltage test.

If you have a voltmeter, the volts should measure 12.6 or higher when the battery is charged. Measured while the engine’s running, they should 13.7 and 14.7. When you don’t have a voltmeter handy, you can still get a good…

At Audi Pensacola, we're enthusiastic about the cars we drive. Like you, we also want to enjoy peace of mind when we get behind the wheel that we'll experience a safe and pleasurable drive. But we also know that any type of mechanical equipment experiences glitches from time to time, and that's why we encourage all of our customers to come in for regular inspections of their belt and hose performance.

When you entrust the care of your vehicle's hoses and belts to the service department at our Audi service department, you can have peace of…

If you have ever heard someone saying that you need to get your air filters cleaned, you might think you can wait until you have more money. The bottom line is that if you don't get them cleaned, you can head to the auto shop too late and have real damage done to the engine.

The engine needs to have air that is free of dirt and pollutants in order to operate correctly. If you starve that engine of clean air, there are going to be lots of problems down the road. 

All fifty states have adopted move over laws on their roadways, and that includes us here in Pensacola, FL. Every driver needs to slow down and safely move to the other lane when there is a person on the side of the road.

Obeying these laws creates a safety zone between the person or people on the roadside and moving traffic. If it is a one lane road or the driver cannot safely move to the other lane, then one should move over to the left as far as safely possible and slow the vehicle down. 

Using plain water can be frustrating when washing the windshield while driving. With the wide selection of windshield wiper fluids that are on the market today, infused with a material in it that acts as an anti-freezing agent, the appropriate washer fluid is a more suitable liquid to use.

We here at Audi Pensacola would like to let all of our customers in the greater Pensacola, FL area to know that it is a good idea to only use windshield wiper fluid in your vehicle's windshield wiper fluid system. 

Horsepower is a familiar term to most people, and is commonly used throughout any industry where engines are used to provide power. However, most people, including car aficionados, don’t know the precise meaning of horsepower or how it first originated.

The holidays are here. Now it is time to create a list of favorite foods for travel. Try new recipes or bake family favorites and take them along for a holiday excursion. Nothing brings people together like food. To help the process along, have your car checked by Audi Pensacola before you leave.

• Place the sauce for a special dish in a jar, separate from the main platter.
• Wrap braised meats separately from broth.
• Travel with your bread frozen. Revive it by heating on short trips. Do not refreeze.

Chances are you have probably heard your parents or someone else over the years talking about how it is important to get the oil changed in your vehicle every 3000 miles. While this used to be true it is not very common that cars require their oil to be changed as frequently today.