SauMart
Member
Hello guys,
it's my first post here, but I was reading A2oc.net since I bought my piece of aluminium
My name is Saulius, I'm 25 and I'm from Lithuania...some of you might know our citizens not in the best way since most of you seem to be from UK but don't judge me When I was a student, I was working in the UK for the summer as well, but that is another story...
About my little fellow...In early 2014's after long reading on the internet about different cars and stuff I discovered a really fantastic car - Audi A2 it was different from all of the cars and it has so many good things - you know that yourselves So after a few months of searching in Germany and Italy online marketplaces for a decent car (for the price of course, because I was a student) and a few disappointments.. I finally got a call, that "one with a damaged front is coming from Germany".. So I bought a black 1.4 TDI 75bhp after accident. It was serviced in Audi just month before accident and one month later it is mine. So the technical side of a car (excluding front damage) was quite good (new brakes, new oil and filters, etc).
My neighbour owns a garage so he made all repairs..and the first photo is before everything:
Also boot was full of water..I think that my first experience with A2oc.net was when I was searching why the boot is getting wet..and I never forgot this site since..
The interior was muddy because it was a bussines car and noone was caring about the cleaning it. The cup holders were wrecked as well (as they are today also, they are very expensive! ) Photo during repairing:
So after a few weeks of repairs the car was able to drive again before going to get license plate:
Aaaanddd few hours later it has a new matching license plates! Yay! GReeN 002 )
Few weeks later I got hood done and had to explain people that this car is made from aluminium and it won't rust even if the paint is damaged as in a picture 5 ) bought a few missing parts, made interior cleaning and started to use it nicely
After first longer trip to countryside:
Many people were surprised how such small car from the outside is such a nice and spacious (mine is 4 seater) car in the inside
After long searches of the decent wheels I finally bought a set of R16 alloys with a tyres suitable for A2..215/40 Goodyear/bridgestones.
Since 2014 04 I was driving this little beast and never regreted of my choice. I also started to use spritmonitor.de to track my fuel consumption, because my fellow does not have a DIS (I don't know if I'm using this name properly ?). Since today I've done about 30k kilos (sorry, I'm better with metric then imperial system). And there was one quite big trip to Netherlands this spring...
The major repairs (without repairs due to accident) through the year and a half was:
Assuming that I've reached 10 pictures in my post I need to end it. Feel free to ask anything and sorry for my english
By the way I don't know if I am in the right "forum place" so if no, maybe just move my thread somewhere else? because it won't be a show car or something like I have seen here (they are awesome!!), it's just a car, that I'm happy with and I wanted to share my experience. And will try to share it in the future I just want to keep it clean and going well cheers!
it's my first post here, but I was reading A2oc.net since I bought my piece of aluminium
My name is Saulius, I'm 25 and I'm from Lithuania...some of you might know our citizens not in the best way since most of you seem to be from UK but don't judge me When I was a student, I was working in the UK for the summer as well, but that is another story...
About my little fellow...In early 2014's after long reading on the internet about different cars and stuff I discovered a really fantastic car - Audi A2 it was different from all of the cars and it has so many good things - you know that yourselves So after a few months of searching in Germany and Italy online marketplaces for a decent car (for the price of course, because I was a student) and a few disappointments.. I finally got a call, that "one with a damaged front is coming from Germany".. So I bought a black 1.4 TDI 75bhp after accident. It was serviced in Audi just month before accident and one month later it is mine. So the technical side of a car (excluding front damage) was quite good (new brakes, new oil and filters, etc).
My neighbour owns a garage so he made all repairs..and the first photo is before everything:
Also boot was full of water..I think that my first experience with A2oc.net was when I was searching why the boot is getting wet..and I never forgot this site since..
The interior was muddy because it was a bussines car and noone was caring about the cleaning it. The cup holders were wrecked as well (as they are today also, they are very expensive! ) Photo during repairing:
So after a few weeks of repairs the car was able to drive again before going to get license plate:
Aaaanddd few hours later it has a new matching license plates! Yay! GReeN 002 )
Few weeks later I got hood done and had to explain people that this car is made from aluminium and it won't rust even if the paint is damaged as in a picture 5 ) bought a few missing parts, made interior cleaning and started to use it nicely
After first longer trip to countryside:
Many people were surprised how such small car from the outside is such a nice and spacious (mine is 4 seater) car in the inside
After long searches of the decent wheels I finally bought a set of R16 alloys with a tyres suitable for A2..215/40 Goodyear/bridgestones.
Since 2014 04 I was driving this little beast and never regreted of my choice. I also started to use spritmonitor.de to track my fuel consumption, because my fellow does not have a DIS (I don't know if I'm using this name properly ?). Since today I've done about 30k kilos (sorry, I'm better with metric then imperial system). And there was one quite big trip to Netherlands this spring...
The major repairs (without repairs due to accident) through the year and a half was:
- changed stabilizer links twice;
- all front suspension rubber parts, because of clunking noise;
- axial grooving ball bearings and suspension strut storage, both sides (I hope these are correct names );
- changed glow plugs before previous winter;
- last month front and rear shocks changed from sachs advance series to sachs touring;
- not mentioning service stuff like oil, wiper, filters, etc.
Assuming that I've reached 10 pictures in my post I need to end it. Feel free to ask anything and sorry for my english
By the way I don't know if I am in the right "forum place" so if no, maybe just move my thread somewhere else? because it won't be a show car or something like I have seen here (they are awesome!!), it's just a car, that I'm happy with and I wanted to share my experience. And will try to share it in the future I just want to keep it clean and going well cheers!