Correct!

I was just as puzzled, but I found a reference to it as a coin holder online somewhere.

Works great until you accelerate....

 

I was confused as well.

Not the best coin holder i've seen. I miss my old coin holder that was in my Alfa GT. It was a rubber coin holder that actually gripped the coins. Was very useful.

 

I was told it was not a coin holder by the dealer. It was a placeholder for something on the automatics.

 

The automatics have this "coin holder" as well. Following is a recent pic of a U.S. spec A5 Tiptronic that I took:

 

Thats a weird thing... I always wondered what it was.

 

this is pretty common on audi's and vw's

(it's a coin holder)

 

always thought it was the volume control

 

Ha, I thought it was a vent for the air temp thermometer or something.

 

It could be the thermometer as volvos have a similar thing on the dash.

 

Where will the Canadians put their loonies and twonies......

 

Especially now that with the exchange rate upside downedness their money is bigger than it was before.

 

I wouldn't put money there. More reason for someone to break-in. Especially if its all quarters.

 

I saw this today... I guess it does hold coins:

 

well there is a much more logigal answer.

on the A6 etc the entire centre console has its buttons switched around on RHD cars. volume buttom and nav, media etc switch sides.

on the A5 none of the buttons get switched around in te conversion to RHD apart from the handbrake buttons. therefore it is just a blanking strip for the appropriate market made to look like a coin holder

 

Lhd / Rhd



The later models will have the speedo etc in the middle as well like Renault, Fiat etc.

Only joking !

 

Yeah, I does look like a coin holder.

I think that's kind of cheesy. Audi is all about understated sporty elegance and NOT showing off your money . The interiors are simple and uncluttered and here they are providing a nick-nac to display dusty coins

However, as Vin indicated above, it's better looking than a plastic blanking panel for an unused switch.

 

Anyone leaving coins in there can expect to get their window smashed by some kid (punk in the US!) who will put a stone through your window to steal a just a pounds-worth of loose change. Bastards.

 

Agreed. BTW, here in the U.S. we call them "crack addicts".

 

BTW... the slots are carefully designed to collect dust and be impossible to clean with a cloth or duster, necessitating the use of a vacuum cleaner of some description. They have even incorporated a little protrusion inside the slot to prevent the use of ear cleaning buds. Clever those Germans.

 

I love a black interior, although the dust can be a pain, but I've found the solution

See thumbnail below for Dusty Dashboard's worst nightmare..

 

Nah, the German defences are too strong... they have thought about this. Those slots are too deep for 'wonderdusters' to get the dust out of... and I bet if you prised the little 'coin holder' out you would find those crafty Germans have 'earthed' or 'grounded' the slots, so that the electrostatic action of even the best and most expensive of 'wonderdusters', or 'uber-dusters' as the Germans call them, is completely negated.

 

Best way is to just get a can of compressed air, like the kind you use to clean computers, and give the slots a nice, refreshing BJ.

 

the Q7 without the advanced key gets the same thing in place of the start/stop buttons.. i've eyed mine suspiciously as well.. i don't think it's a cheezy coin slot, but like bryce was hoping, i think it was designed to just be a filler piece and to break up the monotony of a smooth piece of plastic that would say "SOMETHING COOL IS SUPPOSED TO GO HERE, BUT YOU'RE TOO CHEAP FOR THAT OPTION!" they put some slots in it.. i don't think the intention was for coins.. so - make it look pseudo functional and it's not as cheap and 'default' looking..

 

Tell me about it... every time I see a blank button where hill hold assist should be, I get pissed at Audi for not offering the option in the US. There is nothing I can do about the blank space, so people will think something cool is supposed to go here, but I am too cheap to get it, when its really because Audi is dumb and doesn't offer it.

 

Do you think they will put the instant-access drive-select buttons here, marked:

"Town"
"Cruise"
and
"Nutter"

 

Aha! Ze Gemans vil haf thought about zat! I reckon the outstanding German Aerodynamasists will have either used bernouli's theorem to accellerate the air and throw it straight back into the eye of the operator, or to create vorteces such that the dust is retained in the slots (a little like a dyson).

...Maybe I'm getting a bit carried away here? Sorry!

 

Anyone who resorts to cleaning those little slots with a cotton bud and considers the actions of charged air particles acting on them, needs to get out more! and drive the thing!!

 

the intent is to enable you to have coins handy for toll road trips, not necessarily to store your change in there 24/7.

 

The first sensible thing I've read in this thread...also probably good for parking meters too.

 

People still use coins for such things!?

 

At first glance i thought it was a vent to warm the shifting hand

 

Yeah, but as vents go this thing is like nipples on a guy: it may resemble a real vent, but it isn't hooked up to anything that would permit anything to come out of it.

 

Lol