Accessories you would like to see in A2?

[Ade]

We had the thread about what we didn't like, how about what we would have wanted? I'll not get into heads up displays or the like, but just pragmatic stuff.

Simple accessories I would like to see in/on the A2 are:

Universal fit carpeted tray under handbrake.
Being able to remove ALL the cloth covering under the OpenSky instead of just being able to retract the front half.
Rear centre armrest perhaps.
The stowage pockets in the door, I wish they weren't fixed in place, it would be good if they were hinged at the bottom so they could open out (so you can dig the bits out of the bottom easier).
Door mirrors which auto flip-in when you pull key out of ignition and auto-flip out when you put key into ignition. (Not sure if you can get this on an A2 in Germany for example, but I've seen it on Merc's in the UK + others).


That's just for starters. Any more for any more?

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[ecoangel]

RHD 1.2 TDI in the UK subsidised with Powershift grant and free from London CC
Smoother gearchange on 1.2 TDI
Better viz past the A pillars!
Easy clean upholstery
brighter side lights
lower volume beep on DIS/FIS for low washer warnings!
Better hinge design on removable rear seats
Fuel Cell model 2006



Lukas

First A2 1.2 TDI in UK
Style pack + Chorus + Advance pack + winter wheels + iRiver MP3CD

[shezlee]

I ordered a centre tray from VAGPARTS it may need a little work to fit but I am willing to give it a go. Keep you all informed..

What I would like to see is the "Angle Eyes" light cluster from the BMWs

oh and a lower chrome grill. (I know I keep saying it but I want one:))

Lee and Sheridan,
TDI SE, Dolphin Grey,
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http://www.audi-a2.co.uk/uk18.htm

[RTV]

ecoangel,

Can you tell me more about your powershift grant and your cc excemption ?

Thanks

2002 TDI SE - Silver - Open Sky System

[Ade]

quote:Originally posted by shezlee

I ordered a centre tray from VAGPARTS it may need a little work to fit but I am willing to give it a go. Keep you all informed..


If it works I can see a little purchase in store, let us know shezlee. Thanks.

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[ecoangel]

see the thread under general forum about green consumer guide - the car is not officially imported into uk yet but this could change very soon with the profile being raised here thro press and with Audi bosses in Germany. IF the UK is serious about lowering carbon emissions by 60% then this is an obvious form of transport to promote a la Honda Insight etc

Lukas

First A2 1.2 TDI in UK
Style pack + Chorus + Advance pack + winter wheels + iRiver MP3CD

[Johann]

I would also love to have electrically folding mirrors - Peugeot's mirors fold flat when you lock the car... also the new Megane as part of the sunroof package. Driving down narrow country lanes I always fold them in, but to fold the passenger side one I have to undo my belt and basically stop to do it, pain...

I would like more suspension travel - especially over speedbumps...

I would like roller blinds to the sunroof... go and have a look at the ones in the new Megane... there is one for the front and one for the rear and when retracted you don't see anything but SKY!

A bigger fuel tank - mine is the old 34 litre job, but even the new 42 litre one is still not enough. Look at the brilliant interior packaging of the Honda Jazz. They moved the fuel tank to under the FRONT seats, thus making a clever rear seat folding mechanism possible. BUT look under your front seats in the A2: ACRES and ACRES of WASTED air being transported... such a waste IMHO. If that space was a 100 litre fuel tank... image how far you could go... Maybe someone should make an aftermarket tank to fit in this wasted space?

I would like the car to be 3 inches wider to be able to fit proper three people in the back and maybe 5 inches longer overall to give a bigger boot and more rear legroom... (would also mean the windsreen is wider and thus you can have two proper claphand wiper blades...)

Automatic rain sensing wipers: have them on the Golf and they are brilliant - set and forget.

I want rain channels on the A-pillars to stop the water dribbling around...

I want the standard radios to play MP3 burned CDs (12 hours of music on 1 CD times 6 = 72 hours of music!)

I want to be able to fit a roof rack on a car with Open Sky...

I want a boot that can take two fullsize Samsonite hard luggage bags...

and last but not least I want the Open Sky button to be the same as other Audis where it has pre-set positions and you don't have to keep pressing it until the thing is fully open... on all other Audis there is a round twist button with various pre-set positions...

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and iPAQ 3970 with Sat-Nav sleeve

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[Ade]

Now we're getting somewhere, some good suggestions there Johann. The 'raintronic' is only usually on the higger end Audis I think, I could have had it on my A4 at the time (1998), but didn't think I'd need it, but after driving a hire car with it on I wish I had.

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[shezlee]

how about a passenger front seat the folds flat to the same level as the rears, would have made transporting the wardrobe home alot easer, had to borrow the mondeo:(

Lee and Sheridan,
TDI SE, Dolphin Grey,
50% Brighter Bulbs : Original Audi 6 CD Changer (Fitted in proper location by me): Rear drinks holder
http://www.audi-a2.co.uk/uk18.htm

[JohnW]

Ade great idea, and some good ideas already.
I'd like a better looking Service flap, say polished / brushed aluminium or Carbon Fibre or body colour.
Nets on the back of the front seats.
Rear cupholders ( shall be ordering one soon)
Adjustable headrests- fore and aft.
Power socket in the boot - like it shows in the brochure.
Lockable glove box- like it says in the brochure
A bit more room in the above.
Towbar- perhaps to be able to have one retro' fitted, a feature I really miss.
Radio controls to be operated via a column stalk.
Storage bins under the seats (great for hiding phones etc).
Heated front screen.
Adjustable suspension damping to give a more supple ride I WONDER IF ANYBODY HAS FITTED AFTER MARKET ONES?
A more substantial sound deadening cowl over the engine. The one fitted seems a bit cheap.
Halogen - say 20W parking lights
Larger fuel tank.
Regards JohnW. 2002 TDI SE.

[Johann]

Heated front screen and a bigger lockable glovebox would also be nice...

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and iPAQ 3970 with Sat-Nav sleeve

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[Ade]

quote:Originally posted by JohnW
Nets on the back of the front seats.


Mmm, I would like to have this retrofitted if I could, I believe that the nets only came with the upgraded seat material, but I didn't like the pattern and also am not a big fan of leather either. I miss them as I have nowhere to put the Atlas apart from the boot, whereas in the A4 it goes in the nets behind the seat.

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[shezlee]

Johann,

That would of helped a few weeks ago!!

What I ment was fold the seat forward and not to remove the rear seats at all..

Lee and Sheridan,
TDI SE, Dolphin Grey,
50% Brighter Bulbs : Original Audi 6 CD Changer (Fitted in proper location by me): Rear drinks holder
http://www.audi-a2.co.uk/uk18.htm

[Ade]

I didn't know the glovebox was supposed to be lockable? I wished I had seen that at the time of collection, they'd have had an earful over and above the noise I created about the old style-wiper.

I'd also like a decent front edge to the passenger side dash. There's a gap and then a bar across, but when you put envelopes in this area behind the bar you often find they end up on the floor by the time you get to the post box.

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[yoyoman]

I would like that the mirrors adjust on your key like the climate control does so that I dont have to re adjust it every time if I jump in our a2

Jeff Huisman
2000 silver coloured A2
http://www.audi-a2.co.uk/europe5.htm

[JohnW]

Ade, unless I've got the wrong end of the stick, the brochure claims the glovebox is lockable- page 21 of the 01 catologue "Glove compartment on passenger side, lockable and illuminated, with integrated coin box,pen holder and moulded cup holders ".
I've tried to see if mine locks, but without success.
As to the storage nets, I wonder if a good car upholsterer could retro fit them?
Regards JohnW. 2002 TDI SE.

[Mal2002]

JohnW

Are you talking about the nets on the back of the front seats?

2002, 1.4, azure blue, 2 tone leather, concert II single cd. Member of A2OC site.

[quickbow]

I think we all would love a twin tone horn, Dedicated service centres,(Have you noticed that Audi cars are serviced along side Volkswagen) I wonder if the charge rate is the same, and if they use the same men???.

2003 se tdi ebony black, black leather,sky,dis,lumber,climate , w-pack, 5 spoke alloys

[Ade]

quote:Originally posted by Mal2002

JohnW

Are you talking about the nets on the back of the front seats?

2002, 1.4, azure blue, 2 tone leather, concert II single cd. Member of A2OC site.


That's what I meant anyway, hopefully JohnW was also.

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[Mal2002]

The reason I asked, is that when I had my seats retrimmed in leather they put the nets as you called them on, they look really good although they havn't been used yet :)

A good company should be able to sort something out as its not that difficult

2002, 1.4, azure blue, 2 tone leather, concert II single cd. Member of A2OC site.

[JohnW]

Mal2002, yes I was talking about nets on the front seats. I miss them for sticking maps and things in. Stingy Audi!!
Regards JohnW. 2002 TDI SE.

[shezlee]

A louder alarm!!!!

Mine went off last night and next door came and told me. Are front door bell is louder than that.....

Lee and Sheridan,
TDI SE, Dolphin Grey,
50% Brighter Bulbs : Original Audi 6 CD Changer (Fitted in proper location by me): Rear drinks holder
http://www.audi-a2.co.uk/uk18.htm

[abre]

a 6th gear

Andrew - 2003 1.4 TDI Silver Climate

[Johann]

quote:Originally posted by shezlee

how about a passenger front seat the folds flat to the same level as the rears, would have made transporting the wardrobe home alot easer, had to borrow the mondeo:(



You can fold the passenger seat down!!!!!!!

If you take your left rear seat our completely and then wheel the front passenger seatback down (backwards) as far as it will go, you will have a level floor all the way from the bootlid to your glove box! This is obviously only "level" if you keep the second floor in the boot in place... Just go to my picture page: http://www.audi-a2.co.uk/uk23.htm

:D:D


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and iPAQ 3970 with Sat-Nav sleeve

http://www.audi-a2.co.uk/uk23.htm

[hollyrescue]

I thought I had a mouse trapped under the bonnet,it was the horn sounding the alarm. It wouldnt have woken the mouse.

[Ade]

Something I'd like (which I found out the new A4 has) is a compass display in the rear view mirror, i.e. it displays a N for north, etc.

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[Johann]

quote:Originally posted by hollyrescue

I thought I had a mouse trapped under the bonnet,it was the horn sounding the alarm. It wouldnt have woken the mouse.


I've only heard my alarm twice and it was not the horn going off... I know some cars just use their horns as an alarm but mine had a definite "electronic" noise... not loud though as you said... but not the horn either...

As to the horn I even went to get a quote in having it replaced with a two tone one just after buying the car... but as I pressed it for the mechanic I heard it was actually quite loud when you're outside the car... It is all the sound-deadening stuff in the A2 that makes it sound so puny...

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and iPAQ 3970 with Sat-Nav sleeve

http://www.audi-a2.co.uk/uk23.htm

[Johann]

This morning I thought of another very obvious addition to the A2: a rear wiper. The very first Audi 100 Avant in the early eighties had the exact same split rear window as our A2s and that had a wiper. So to the VW Scirocco!!! Why did the Audi engineers not give us one?!

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and iPAQ 3970 with Sat-Nav sleeve

http://www.audi-a2.co.uk/uk23.htm

[deheld]

quote:Originally posted by Johann
a rear wiper. The very first Audi 100 Avant in the early eighties had the exact same split rear window as our A2s and that had a wiper. So to the VW Scirocco!!! Why did the Audi engineers not give us one?!


I think it would disrupt the airflow and cause a higher fuel use.
But I've never missed it, the backwindow is always clean, the wind blows everything clean off. It's the part below the wing that gets dirty...

Dennis de Held

Amulet Red 1.4 Tdi

[JohnW]

Regarding the absence of a rear wiper, strangely enough it appeals to me ( not having one that is ). In other cars I've had with a wiper it soons scratches the glass, even if water is used because the wiper operates before the water! I've never had trouble seeing out of the rear window, and it would'nt take long to wipe by hand if need be.I think it gives a neater look to the rear end also. And anyway the tailgate is heavy enough!!
Very subjective of course.
Regards JohnW. 2002 TDI SE.

[Ade]

Must admit, I've never missed it, but there again, there hasn't been one on ANY of the cars I've owned come to think of it....

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[Johann]

...it was not such a big problem as I thought it would be to live without the wiper... but I have always owned cars WITH rear wipers... and after renting the Megane , a Mazda 6, a Micra and a Vectra recently I realised I do miss it... especially the Renault ones that do one quick wipe at the back when you select reverse and the front ones are on...

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and iPAQ 3970 with Sat-Nav sleeve

http://www.audi-a2.co.uk/uk23.htm

[Ade]

quote:Originally posted by Johann

one quick wipe at the back when you select reverse

Now ain't that clever....attention to detail can be everything.

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[runboy]

And some with leccy mirrors point them down to the kerb when reversing. Sweet.

Steve - 2002 1.4SE petrol, Silver, black/black interior, Then an identical replacement 2003 A2. Now a Toyota Corolla 1.6 T-Spirit

[Ade]

Schweeet indeed. Now that would be a real bonus. I hope the guys from Audi are taking notes from this thread ;)

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[Johann]

quote:Originally posted by Ade

Schweeet indeed. Now that would be a real bonus. I hope the guys from Audi are taking notes from this thread ;)

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If only they would yes! I would LOVE an Audi A2 mark II as described in this thread... but as we know Volkswagen had other ideas... :(

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and iPAQ 3970 with Sat-Nav sleeve

http://www.audi-a2.co.uk/uk23.htm

[Ade]

Don't forget, big brother is watching, so perhaps they are taking notes, albeit not for the future of the A2...


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[Ade]

quote:Originally posted by JohnW

Mal2002, yes I was talking about nets on the front seats. I miss them for sticking maps and things in. Stingy Audi!!
Regards JohnW. 2002 TDI SE.


I asked Martyn at our 'preferred supplier' and he reckons these could be retrofitted, but it involves cutting the cloth on the seat. Not that expensve, but I'm toying with the idea.

Ade

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[sos10]

-flip mirrors
-cooled glovecompartment
-direction indicator you can tip and flashes 3/5 times for changing lanes.
-a bottle holder somewhere
-central armrest in the front with storing capacities
-xenon lights

[A2day]

How about a little bit larger side mirrors?
Probably it can be retroffited from the current A4!

Speed doesn't kill... sudden deacceleration does!
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