Audi A3 Cabriolet, 8P7
A cloth-roofed cabriolet launched with the 2008 facelift: later, rarer and softer than the hatches, and only ever sold in facelift specification.
Overview
The 8P7 is the convertible Audi A3, built 2008–2013. 5 standard engines are documented here, each with its own issue list, inspection sequence and price band. Asking prices across the standard range run €3,000–€10,100, and 1 of the 5 carry a risk level of 4 or 5. The 1.4 TFSI CAXC is both the cheapest way in, from €3,800, and the lowest-risk engine of the range, which makes it the obvious starting point. Prices are illustrative placeholders rather than a sourced market sample. See the methodology.
Audi A3 convertible (8P7) · photo Audi A3 Cabriolet, Baujahr 2008 (2008-10-21) by Spurzem - Lothar Spurzem · CC BY-SA 2.0 de · Wikimedia Commons
| Body style | convertible | Production | 2008–2013 |
| Platform siblings | 8P hatchback · 8PA hatchback | Facelift (LCI) | none |
Engine matrix: pre-facelift, 2008–2013
The 5 variants sold before the 2014 facelift. Power and years come from the variant records; prices are illustrative, not sourced.
| Badge↕ | Engine | Fuel | Years↕ | Power↑ | Torque↕ | Risk↕ | Issues | Price band↕ | Good buy↕ | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.6 TDI | CAYC | diesel | 2009–2013 | 105 PS | 250 Nm | R3 | 6 | €3,450–€8,050 | €4,400 | Buy w/ conditions |
| 1.4 TFSI | CAXC | petrol | 2008–2013 | 125 PS | 200 Nm | R3 | 6 | €3,000–€7,150 | €3,800 | Buy w/ conditions |
| 2.0 TDI | CBAB | diesel | 2008–2013 | 140 PS | 320 Nm | R4 | 8 | €3,900–€9,450 | €4,950 | Caution |
| 1.8 TFSI | CDAA | petrol | 2008–2013 | 160 PS | 250 Nm | R3 | 7 | €3,450–€8,500 | €4,500 | Buy w/ conditions |
| 2.0 TFSI | CCZA | petrol | 2008–2013 | 200 PS | 280 Nm | R3 | 7 | €4,150–€10,100 | €5,300 | Buy w/ conditions |
Engine matrix: facelift / LCI, 2014–2013
The 0 variants sold from the facelift on, priced at a 9% premium over the pre-facelift car.
0 variants from the facelift on, carrying a real market premium of roughly 9% over an otherwise identical pre-facelift car. Variants appearing in both tables were sold either side of the changeover, the build month decides which one you're looking at, not the model year.
Nothing matches those filters.
Market availability varied by country; check the engine code stamped on the block rather than the badge on the boot. · Compare every engine side by side →
Model-year availability
Which engines were on sale in which year, from the year ranges in the variant records. Availability varied by country.
Rating map, price against risk
Good-buy price plotted against risk level for every standard engine, so the value corner is visible at a glance.
Every standard engine in the chassis, plotted at its good-buy price against its risk level. Cheap and low-risk is the top-left; expensive and fragile is the bottom-right. M cars are excluded, they would stretch the price axis and tell you nothing about the rest.
Prices across the range
Where the money sits across the whole chassis. Every figure here is an illustrative placeholder, not a sourced market sample.
Every standard engine on one euro axis: the bar spans the 10th to 90th percentile of asking prices, the tick is the median and the green marker is the good-buy figure. S/RS cars are excluded; they sit an order of magnitude above the rest.
Every standard engine · cheapest first · 1.4 TFSI CAXC highlighted as best value
at or under the good buy · good buy · median · bar spans the 10th–90th percentile
Chassis-wide issues, every engine inherits these
Faults recorded against the bodyshell and running gear rather than one engine, so every variant on this page inherits them.
Written once against the chassis and shown on every variant page below, so nothing here is repeated 5 times: S/RS cars included, since the bodyshell and electronics are shared.
Buying summary
Our read on the chassis, built on the records above rather than added to them.
Every car here is a facelift car, so the engines are the common-rail diesels and TFSI petrols rather than the older units. The body-specific check is the roof: hall sensors and the hydraulic pump are the known failures, so operate it fully several times and confirm the fluid level before you commit.
Cheapest and dearest in this chassis
The ends of the range by good-buy price. Useful for sanity-checking anything you're quoted.
Lowest entry price
1.4 TFSI CAXC : from €3,000, risk 3
1.6 TDI CAYC : from €3,450, risk 3
1.8 TFSI CDAA : from €3,450, risk 3
Lowest risk
1.4 TFSI CAXC : risk 3, good buy at €3,800
1.6 TDI CAYC : risk 3, good buy at €4,400
1.8 TFSI CDAA : risk 3, good buy at €4,500