Have had my A2 for 4.5 years now and up until recently i've had no real problems except for uneven front tyre wear, as in the inside of the tyres had worn through past the steel and kevlar and burst! No point even trying to repair that with the Audi tyre sealant! Anyway just bought the space saver off Glen so no more waiting to get towed to a tyre place.
As i said, no real problems until recently!
40,000ish, intermittent warning lights. Diagnostics, steering angle sensor.
Offside droplink replaced and new anti roll bar bushes fitted. (VW Polo bushes. Part number: V6Q0 411 314 N. Does away with the broken collars and clamps the bar really tight, without having to fit the new style Audi roll bar and bushes.Works a treat
) After all the play was taken out of the ARB, the steering sensor warning lights have not come on again.
50,000, the aircon stopped working. Had it re-gassed but still no joy. (The so called aircon and gas conversion specialist told me the pump must have gone and all without Vagcom! IDIOTS!!)
When Mike (Skipton01) came to fit the cruise control it showed up as a sensor fault and flaps on the Vagcom. Anyway took it to be serviced and for the aircon to be fixed.
All the problem was was the high pressure sensor, cheap enough at £36 apart from the 2 hour labour cost of £80, as the front bumper has to come off to get to it. Now freezes you t_t's off though!
Also get intermittent bleeps from alarm siren now and again, so will need to replace this at some time.
55,000, had the A2 remapped. Found out when this was being done that the maff sensor was faulty as they could not get the tuning quite right, so this had to be replaced, which totally through out the remap and had to remapped again from scratch.
Then a week later started to lose power. Cause; the inter-cooler had split, so had to have a new one fitted. (Took 10 days though as Audi UK where waiting for stock of these to arrive!) A big thankyou to Awesome GTI though as they let me keep hold of the courtesy car all this time. When the joint between the radiator and inter-cooler was disturbed, the radiator started to leak slightly, so had to have a new radiator fitted also. Add to the bill a new cambelt kit and water pump which it was originaly booked in for and you were left with a bit of loose change out of £800!!
Could of been worse though. I bet it would of cost nearer £1500-£1600 if done at a Audi main steeler!!
Anyway all seems to be well now,fingers crossed,touch wood etc!
All said and done, when these costs are spread evenly over 4.5 years then its not been too bad at all; add to this ultra cheap road tax and good fuel economy.
Hopefully we will have another 50,000 miles trouble free motoring now all seems to have been sorted, Brads.
