Today I.....

.....hit a mileage milestone of sorts. All the fat ladies.....
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Bought a service kit for my Tdi 90 from GSF containing the following: Vetech 5l 5w-30 fully synthetic oil, oil filter, sump plug and seal, fuel filter, cabin carbon filter, 1L Vetech top up oil and a can of engine degreaser spray for the grand total of £53.47 using the discount code WOW54 to get 54% off the RRP of the parts. All I have to do now is find someone crazy enough to help me do the service?!?!
Who says Audi's are too expensive to maintain? ☺
 
drewroberts said:
Bought a service kit for my Tdi 90 from GSF containing the following: Vetech 5l 5w-30 fully synthetic oil, oil filter, sump plug and seal, fuel filter, cabin carbon filter, 1L Vetech top up oil and a can of engine degreaser spray for the grand total of £53.47 using the discount code WOW54 to get 54% off the RRP of the parts. All I have to do now is find someone crazy enough to help me do the service?!?!
Who says Audi's are too expensive to maintain? ☺
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Great price


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Should be yesterday I.........met up with quite possibly one of the nicest gentleman anywhere in the world, to buy some head lights to replace my faded and sun aged ones and a false floor kit for my boot because Audi in their wisdom didn't offer that option for the sport models back in the day if anyone knows why i would be interested in finding out why? He even included a headrest base cover and a rear view mirror for free. That lovely man is our much treasured forum member Sarge.

He has lots of parts still available, so if any of you guys and gals need anything for your A2's then you could do a lot worse than get in touch with him. If you don't ask you don't get. What are you waiting for?
All the best
Drew
 
Yesterday I met Timmus (Tom) who had agreed to fix some minor issues with my daughters diesel A2 prior to her selling it.

After 3 hours I left with an improved A2 diesel and a far better understanding of our wonderful little car. Tom very patiently explained to me what he was doing and he did so in such a way that even I, as a complete mechanical numpty, understood !

I'd just like to add my name to the lengthy list of satisfied Timmus customers.

One additional thing, if you fancy a cuppa at Tom's take your own milk ;)
 
Today I fixed the faulty rear interior light with some soldering. Thanks to Matt (wilco184) for identifying the problem. Was the same solder point for mine's as well.

Link to Matt's thread.

Yat
 
...received my A2OC number plate surrounds and they look great. Impatiently magaed to fit the rear as soon as got home, front will be done tomorrow. Then the other two.
Many thanks to Tom for organizing this!
 
Today I............well it was Sunday actually -

Found a new way to score the Sunday roast pork joint to make the perfect crackling. I've tried several methods over the years. The most successful had been a Stanley knife with a new blade but it was a bit risky and the results hit and miss
Now I've found a new use for my Bosch multi tool with this serrated blade - https://www.bosch-do-it.com/gb/en/d...d-segment-blade-acz-100-swb-201737-854993.jsp If you try, give the blade a rub down with anti bacterial cleaner first.

Cheers Spike
 
AlA2 said:
Yesterday I met Timmus (Tom) who had agreed to fix some minor issues with my daughters diesel A2 prior to her selling it.

After 3 hours I left with an improved A2 diesel and a far better understanding of our wonderful little car. Tom very patiently explained to me what he was doing and he did so in such a way that even I, as a complete mechanical numpty, understood !

I'd just like to add my name to the lengthy list of satisfied Timmus customers.
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Many thanks, Allan. I'm glad you drove away a happy man. :)

AlA2 said:
One additional thing, if you fancy a cuppa at Tom's take your own milk ;)
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Eh, yes... I don't drink tea and coffee at all, so the ingredients required to make it don't really feature on my radar. My apologies.

Tea: hot water and leaves. I'm OK, thanks.
Coffee: bitter water dressed in brown. I'm OK, thanks. If only it tasted as good as it smells!
 
timmus said:
Many thanks, Allan. I'm glad you drove away a happy man. :)



Eh, yes... I don't drink tea and coffee at all, so the ingredients required to make it don't really feature on my radar. My apologies.

Tea: hot water and leaves. I'm OK, thanks.
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Makes a good Brownium Motion Producer though...
 
...drained and flushed the cooling system, replaced the thermostat and temperature sender, refilled system with new G13 coolant and now my temperature gauge, heater and actually the engine are running as Audi intended!
 
Today I met with 67boris again. He was kind enough to lend me his VCDS module and I got a lot of things demystified. Found out that the F265 heater element had corroded and left for dead hanging in the engine bay!
 
timmus said:
Many thanks, Allan. I'm glad you drove away a happy man. :)



Eh, yes... I don't drink tea and coffee at all, so the ingredients required to make it don't really feature on my radar. My apologies.

Tea: hot water and leaves. I'm OK, thanks.
Coffee: bitter water dressed in brown. I'm OK, thanks. If only it tasted as good as it smells!
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Owe Tom I so so agree. I thought I was the only freak that didn't drink tea or coffee


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when an aftermarket head unit is fitted without a degree of re wiring the head unit will provide much to large a signal to the rear speakers, plus the amp will not be power up (hence no sound from rear speakers)
power in the amp is only half the problem, the other half is to feed the amp with a 'line out' level signal not a speaker ready signal.
There are a numbers of ways around the problem -
1) leave the amp in play and (a) power it up from the head unit, using the blue wire to feed a power on signal to the amp (b) route a line level (Phone output) from the head unit to the input of the amp (needs some rewiring of the speaker out socket i.e. phone on head unit to speaker out LH & RH on the cars loom
2) wire the head units rear speakers output to the rear speakers wires located on the Amp

Option (2) is far easier and as most modern head units are designed to power the front and rear speakers the head unit is being used 'as designed'

Cheers,
 
AlA2 said:
Yesterday I met Timmus (Tom) who had agreed to fix some minor issues with my daughters diesel A2 prior to her selling it.

After 3 hours I left with an improved A2 diesel and a far better understanding of our wonderful little car. Tom very patiently explained to me what he was doing and he did so in such a way that even I, as a complete mechanical numpty, understood !

I'd just like to add my name to the lengthy list of satisfied Timmus customers.

One additional thing, if you fancy a cuppa at Tom's take your own milk ;)
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Or take your own Pepsi as I did at the weekend :p

So to relate to previous post...sump plug or oil drain? Whats the preference? Indeed is sucking the oil out of the a2 even practical? One of many thoughts I've had alongside other things like what will I have for my dinner and how clueless the government are :)
 
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