2018 AUDI A8 Owners Manual

Owner's Manual
2018 AS
Audi Vorsprung durch T echnik

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" N .... 0 0 :c ' Foreword
Thank you for choosing an Audi -we value your trust in us.
Your new Audi wi ll allow you to experience the bes t in groundbreaking techno lo­
gy and premium quality equipment a vehicle has to offer . We recommend that
you read your Owner's Manua l thoroug hly so that you quickly become acquaint­
ed with your A udi and make use of all of its features.
In addition to exp laining how the different fea tures work, we p rovide many use ­
f ul tips and information concerning yo ur safety, how to care for yo ur vehicle and
how to maintai n your ve hicle's va lue . We also give you useful tips and informa­
tion on how to drive your veh icle more efficiently and in an environmentally
friendly manner.
We hope you enjoy driving your Audi and we wish you safe and pleasant motor ­
ing.
AUDIAG

Table of contents
About this Owner's Manual. . . . . .
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Cockpit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Cockpit overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Controls at a glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Instrument cluster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
M ultif unction steering wheel . . . . . . . . . . 11
Driver information system . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
T ime and date display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
H ead-up display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Indicato r lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
O n-B oard Diagnost ic System (OB D) . . . . . 25
Starting and driving . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Opening and closing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Cent ral lock ing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
L ugg age com pa rt ment lid . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Ch ild safety lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
P ower window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Sunroof. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Panorama glass roof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Valet par king function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Garage doo r opener (Home Link) . . . . . . . . 41
Lights and Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Exterior lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Interior lighti ng . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
V1s1on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
W indshield w ipe rs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
D ig ita l compass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Seats and storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Gene ral information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Fr ont seats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Rear seats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 6
Head restraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
M emory function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S9
12 volt sockets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
llSvoltsocket . ............. .... .. . 61
Fu ll-length center console. . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
L uggage compartment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
P ass-throug h w it h ski bag . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
R efrige rato r . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Warm and cold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
D eluxe a utomat ic cli ma te contro l . . . . . . . 69
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Driving ... .. .. .... .. ... .. ..... ... . .
Genera l information . .... .. ..... ... . .
Steering . ... .. .... .. ... .. ..... ... . .
Start ing and stopping the eng ine ..... . .
Start/Stop system .. .. ............. . .
E lectromechanical parking brake ...... .
Start ing to drive .. .. .. .............. .
A utomat ic transmission
Trailer towing ... .. .............. .
D rivi ng with a tra ile r .. .............. .
T ra ile r towing information .......... . .
Driver assistance .. .............. .
Assistance systems .. .. ..... ... . .
S peed warning system . ............. . .
Cru ise cont rol sys tem . ............. . .
Audi adaptive cruise contro l ...... ... . .
Audi active lane assist (lane departure 73
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assist) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Audi s ide ass ist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
N ight vision assist w ith pedestrian and
wild animal detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Audi drive select (drive setti ngs) ........ 111
Parking systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
General information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Parking system plus ... ............... 116
Rearv iew camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Per iphera l came ras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Adjus ting the d isp lay and the wa rn in g
tones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Error messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
T raile r hitch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Intelligent Technology . . . . . . . . . . 127
E lectronic Stabi lization Contro l (ESC). ... 127
Brakes .... .. .. .. .. .. ............. .. 129
E lectromechanical steering, dynamic
steering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
All wheel drive (quattro) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Energy management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Notice about data recorded by the Event
Data Recorder and veh icle co ntro l
modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

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" N .... 0 0 :c ' Infotainment syst em . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Multi Media Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Traffic safety information . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Sw itching the MMI on and off . . . . . . . . . . 135
Adjusting the volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Infotainment d isplay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
MMI operat io n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
M MI touc h . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
L ette r/numbe r spelle r . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
M enus and symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Voice recognition system . . . . . . . . 142
Operating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Command overview information . . . . . . . . 142
Global commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
T elephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Opening the te lephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 8
Di alin g a telephone number . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Sto ring a phone number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Accepting/end ing a call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
During a phone ca ll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Emergency call functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 1
Opening the directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Searching for a contact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Using contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Import ing and export ing contacts . . . . . . 154
Sto ring a new contact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Name tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
M emory capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Ad dit ional se ttings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Audi connect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
I ntroduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Operating the browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Overview of Aud i connect services . . . . . . 160
W i-F i hotspot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Conf igur ing a data connect io n . . . . . . . . . 162
Table of content s
About Audi connect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
T roub leshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
N . .
av1gat1on ..... .. ... .. ..... ... .. . .
Opening navigation .... .. ..... ... .. . .
Entering a destination .. .. ..... ... .. . . 166
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166
Start ing/cance ling route guidance . . . . . . 171
Operat ing the map ................. .. 171
Onlinemapview .. .. ... .. ..... ... .. .. 172
Additional settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Access ing traffic informat ion . . . . . . . . . . 176
Other sett ings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
T roub leshooting .. .. ............. .. .. 17 7
Radio .. .. .. .. .. .. ... .. ..... ... .. .. 178
A ccess ing the radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Radio f unct io ns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
O ther se ttings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
T roub leshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Media drives and connections . . . 181
Introd uction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
SD card reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
DVD drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
DVD changer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Jukebox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Bluetooth aud io player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Wi-Fi audio p laye r . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
A udi music inte rface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
S uppo rted med ia an d file fo rmats . . . . . . 18 7
T roub leshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Playing media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Accessing media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Media functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Other settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Rear Seat Entertainment . . . . . . . . 194
RSE components overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Switching the RSE o n and off . . . . . . . . . . 194
Adjust ing the volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Audio output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Adjust ing the sound ................. . 196
Resta rting the RS E (reset) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
D isplay settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 97
Parent al cont rol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 7
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Other settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
H eadphon es . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
M edia drives/connect ions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Enterta inment systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Video playback information . . . . . . . . . . . 203
T roubleshoot ing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
System settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Sett ing the time and date . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Ad justi ng the sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Ad justi ng the system vo lume ... .... .. .
Othe r settings .. ............. .. .. .. . 206
206
Safety .. .. .. .. ... .. ..... ... .. .. .. . 208
Driving safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
B asics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 8
Cor rect passenger seating positions . . . . . 209
D river's and front passenge r's footwell . . 212
Peda l area. ........ .. ..... ... .. .. ... 213
Storing cargo correctly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Report ing Safety Defects....... .... .. . 215
Audi pre sense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Preventative passenger protection . . . . . . 217
Safety belts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 19
Gene ral information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
W hy use safety belts? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Safety belts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Belt tensioners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Airbag system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Important information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
F ront a irbags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 1
M on itor ing t he Advanced Airbag System . 237
Knee ai rbags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 1
Side air bags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 3
Side c urtain airbags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Child safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 9
I mportant info rmation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 9
Chi ld safety seats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Securing chi ld safety seats . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
LATCH system (Lower anchorages and
tethers for children) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Add it io nal information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
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Maintenance and Care . . . . . . . . . . . 2 68
Checking and Filling . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Gasoline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Refueling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Emissions control systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
Engine compartment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
E ngine o il . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Cooli ng system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
B rake fl uid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Bat tery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Windsh ie ld washer sys tem . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Service in terva l display 281
Wheels .... .. .. .. .. ............. .. 28 3
Whee ls and Tires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
T ire Pressure Monitoring System (AB , 58) 300
Tire P ressure Monitor ing System (58
pl us) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Care and cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
Genera l information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
Car washes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
Cleaning and care info rmation . . . . . . . . . 307
Plac ing your vehicle out of serv ice . . . . . . 311
Do It Yourself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Emergency assistance . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Genera l information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
E qu ipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Repla cing wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Spa re tir es . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Fuses and bulbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 2
El ec trica l fuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
B ul bs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 26
Emergency situations . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Gener al . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 7
Start ing by p ushi ng o r tow ing . . . . . . . . . . 3 27
Starting with jumper cab les . . . . . . . . . . . 327
U sing the jump start cable . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Towing with a tow truck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Raising the vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Technical data and a ccessories . . 333
Technical data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Vehicle specificat ions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Notes abo ut technical data . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

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" N .... 0 0 :c ' Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
Capacities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
We ights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
Gasoline engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Consumer Information . . . . . . . . . . 336
Warranty coverages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
Operating your veh icle outs ide the U.S.A.
or Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
Aud i Service Repair Ma nuals and
Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
M aintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
Accesso ries and te chnical changes . . . . . . 338
D eclarat ion of Complia nce,
Telecommun ication or E lectron ic Systems 339
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 1
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About this Owner's Manual
This Owne r's Manual applies to a ll versions of
this mode l.
It contains important information,
tips, suggestions and warn ings for using your ve ­
h icle.
Keep this manual in yo ur vehicle at all times . This
is especially important if you loan your vehicle to
others or sell it.
This owner's manua l descr ibes the
equipment
range
specified for this mode l at the time of
printing. Individua l equipment options described
may on ly be availab le at a later date or may on ly
be offered in certain countries .
Some sections in this manua l do not apply to all
ve hicl es. When this is the case, the beginning of
the sect ion ind icates the
validity, for example
"Applies to vehicles : with cruise contro l system".
Optional or vehicle-specific equipment is also
ident ified with an asterisk"*" .
The
illustrations in this manual are a guide .
Some of the detai ls in your vehicle may differ
from the illustration.
A ll
directions , such as "left", "right", "front" and
"rear", are based on the vehicle's direction of
travel.
* Optiona
l equipment or vehicle -speci fic equip­
ment
.,.. The section continues on the next page.
~ & Cross reference to a "WARN ING " within a
section. If a page number is indica ted, the
WARNING is located o utside of the section.
A WARNING -
Tex t with this symbol contains information
about safety and how to reduce the risk of se­
rious personal injury or death.
(LlJ) Note
Text with this symbol contains informat ion
about reducing the risk of damage to your ve­
hicle .
@) For the sake of the environment
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Text with this symbol contains informat ion on
protecting the environment.
(D Tips
Text with this symbo l contains additional use­
f ul info rmation.