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The most aluminum-committed body in the German field.
Audi has built aluminum-intensive bodies for longer than most of the field, and the A8, A7 and the e-tron cars are the clearest examples. Aluminum takes more force to move, hardens as it is worked and needs heat before it will hold a new shape, so an Audi panel is slower than the same panel in steel. Smaller cars in the range mix aluminum panels with steel.
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Audi has built aluminum-intensive bodies for longer than most of the field, and the A8, A7 and the e-tron cars are the clearest examples. Aluminum takes more force to move, hardens as it is worked and needs heat before it will hold a new shape, so an Audi panel is slower than the same panel in steel. Smaller cars in the range mix aluminum panels with steel.
With Audi it is safer to assume aluminum and be corrected than the other way round. The A8 and A7 in particular are heavily aluminum, and the e-tron models follow.
Push cold aluminum and it retracts, which reads as the repair not working. Warming the panel makes the metal malleable and keeps the paint elastic while it moves, and that is the difference between a finished panel and a stretched one.
Audi runs a hard shoulder line along the flanks of most of the range. A dent that touches that line is a longer repair than one sitting below it, because the line has to come back dead straight.
The blistered arches on the RS and S cars change what can be reached from behind, which occasionally means pulling from the outside instead of pushing from within.
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Often aluminum, and more so than its rivals. The A8, A7 and the e-tron models are aluminum-intensive. Smaller cars in the range mix aluminum panels with steel, so send the year and model with your photos and we will tell you which you have.
Yes, provided the paint is unbroken. Paintless repair reshapes the panel from behind and leaves the factory finish on the car, which is worth real money on an aluminum bodied car that would be expensive to refinish.
Because nothing helps. Steel has memory pulling it toward its old shape and aluminum has none, so it takes more force, more heat and considerably more time to reach the same finish.
Yes. They are aluminum-intensive with large flat doors. Paintless repair does not go near the battery pack, the drivetrain or the electronics.
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