Yesterday:
1) (pertinent to the above) I tried to do an oil change on my brother-in-law's 2009 Fiesta 1.6 diesel but didn't have a 21mm socket or spanner to hand to undo the sump plug - although luckily I did have a 27mm oil filter socket! - So I used my at-the-time-of-purchase unavailable
Mityvac fluid pump and extractor that I had imported from the US some time ago to extractor the warm oil via the dipstick instead. I assume this is how many Audi dealers would have changed the oil on our cars as I understand the PD TDI lends itself to this method well?
Anyway, I must say, I'm a convert: It extracted near-enough the full amount of oil I was expecting it to and it was quick and of course very clean - to the point where an oil & filter change is now a pleasurable 15/20 minute job - plus on the A2 TDI you could use it to suck out the oil in the filter / cooler housing. I can't wait to try it on Audrey when the next change comes up - I would probably alternate between changing via this method and doing it the proper way via the sump every 6-8000 miles just to be sure. Thoughts welcome on all of this.
2) I then spent an enjoyable hour going through the mountain of paperwork / service history that came with Akoya: It was even more of a delight to discover that once I'd pieced it all together via a spreadsheet (which I do for all of my cars to track work done and costs), I have the full service history from new for the car; which at 191k miles, you can imagine how comprehensive that is! The picture doesn't really do justice to how thick that pile of paper work is. I also went through all of
@PaulA2 's posts that I could tell referred to Akoya (as he had more than one A2 most of the time) and was able to further add to the list of works done to complete the picture.
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If I do come to sell this car then obviously this effort would have been well worth it.