Finally found one!

Leopard680

Leopard680

A2OC Donor
Yes! I am the proud owner of a fine black 1.4TDI and I'm delighted with it! Getting between 400 and 435 mile before the amber fuel lamp comes on- a bit of an improvement over my last car! What I would like now is heated mirrors and a passenger side face level air vent! :D
 
IIRC all A2s have the heated mirror wires already installed and tucked behind the existing mirrors (easy enough to check). Buy 2 x heated mirrors from Audi (about £40 each), remove the old ones, and clip the new ones into place. There are cheaper ones on ebay but they require a lot of modification to fit and for the sake of it I'd go with the Audi ones.
Russ
 
Its always a great feeling when you get a new car and everything is great especially good MPG. My first was Black with OSS. My favourite colour:cool:
 
Excellent OP. What Russell said is true. My car has the winter pack, unbeknown to me. Have you pressed the heated rear screen button and waited a few minutes to see if you mirrors warm up at all? You never know. I got the surprise of my life when I found mine demisting that day.

It's got to be said the black TDi's are the pick of the bunch.





(Mine is a black TDi too!)
 
DJ 190 said:
Why is that, I wonder? I had a black VW Golf, once, and it was a real pain to keep clean!

David
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My black Alfa was just the same, almost always looked dirty. I like a silver car nowadays. Road dirt seems seems to be silver in colour. Strange, but true.
 
johnmed said:
Once you've had black you never go back
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Lol, but not true for me.

I had a black A2 and granted it looked lovely when just cleaned and polished but five minutes later it was another story. For me it was "I'm never having a black car again!"

Some lovely other A2 colours around, some of them quite rare too.

Congratulations on your new purchase though Leopard and i'm sure you'll be delighted with it for a long time to come.
 
Black is a pain to keep clean. For sure. For me tho, I prefer the look of most modern cars when the paintwork is black. Especially when the cars have black plastic on their exterior.

I always wanted a silver car until I had one. The panels weren't perfectly paint matched, and now I spot poorly paint matched cars mostly on silver cars. Tends to be the doors on the near sides or bumpers that often have had paint and rarely match. I never want a silver car again, unless it's never had paint.

Seems to me silver cars show up this mismatch more than others.
 
Silver is indeed the most difficult colour to match perfectly as there are so many variations, some have a yellow tint, some blue or green etc etc just ask a car body painter.

For me though Silver is the best colour when it comes to staying, or rather looking clean longest as the colour always shines through and doesn't tend to show the minor blemishes like black does either.

I do think black cars look stunning when new and clean but i do love the classic Aluminium Silver found on the older Audi's but to each their own though and that's why it's great that everyone likes different things and Henry Ford's classic line "you can have any colour as long as it's black" is long gone.
 
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