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Hi people,

After a six month search the wait is over....:D
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A TDi 1.4 SE with many extras, from a long standing owner. Only two owners from new. 117k miles on the clock.
 
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Thankyou for the welcome.
Some more pictures. She has washed up nicely.

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She really does not show her age (unless you look carefully) which is just what I wanted.
 
Nice spec, I can see the lumbar controls, DIS, the BOSE and the 4 electric windows.

I am sure there are more goodies?

Nice
Steve B
 
Nice car, hope you get many miles of happy motoring!
By the way, if you want to get your Broken Sky working again, contact Tony aka Hotstuff on this forum. He's offering a unique service to completely fix and restore failed OpenSkys at his workshop in Milton Keynes...

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OSS (sealed shut).
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Thankyou for the welcomes.

I have been lurking (reading) for some months now looking for the 'right one' to turn up at the right price.
This is one of the friendliest forums about, UK Saabs being another. :)

I have a penchant for cleaning (some like to say 'detailing' these days) and I have to start with a decent base, and this one has been looked after.

I was looking for a 2001 model with the hard surface buttons, but this one isn't criminal, and the recent thread on swapping buttons from an A4 air con unit took me over the edge into buying this car.

I want to bring her up to a better standard and the items below are either worn, broken or degraded substantially.
So I do need a few pieces, the later Aero wiper kit, a fuel cap release button, two wheel centre caps, rear number plate light units, a headlamp switch to start with.
But the price paid allows for these things (I think).

One biggie at the moment is that one seat folded down and lifted out easily enough, but then....
doesn't want to latch into the floor, the back rest not being allowed up!
So if all the sellers of five seat A2's think theirs are rare (according to many of the adverts out there) my three seater must be verging on the extinct.

Any ideas for this issue?
It seems to me that the ball bearings are not shooting out to hold the seat pegs in the floor, all it does is bounce back up on the springs.

Thanks in advance.

Nick.

P.S. Just remembered it also has the removable rear cup holders / bin. (I really was lucky finding this one) Anyone want to guess at the price paid?
 
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Hi,

Look at the pins on the bottom of the seat that go into the holes in the floor, compare these against the seat that is working ok.

The pin mechanism might have gone to a different position on the problem seat?

Steve B
 
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One biggie at the moment is that one seat folded down and lifted out easily enough, but then....
doesn't want to latch into the floor, the back rest not being allowed up!
Any ideas for this issue?
It seems to me that the ball bearings are not shooting out to hold the seat pegs in the floor, all it does is bounce back up on the springs.
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Hi Nick and welcome to A2OC. If I read this correctly it's a very common one with the A2 that needs a bit of 'brute force and ignorance' ( not an angle grinder as one member fatefully attempted.) :eek:

With the seat in its folded 'stuck position', first ensure its married up to the locating points - then here's the technical bit - kneel on top of the seat with your full weight, pull the handle at the base of the seat to work the mechanism then literally jump up and down a couple of times, pivoting the seat on its front location slots and pressing back down on the rear section, whilst still holding the handle in the 'open' position. ( this sounds more complex than it is!) This highly technical 'procedure' should pop the mechanism back out and secure the seat base - with this in hand the upper section will work again in the normal manner.

Hope you get it sorted, and don't put your back out in the process!!

That car looks vaguely familiar to me - it's very like a car that member Laurence from Northampton bought through the forum last year. The seat fabric with lumbar support and some of the other toys it has look the same as his motor.

Nice A2, can't possibly hazard a guess at your purchase price, especially if you bought from a fellow member, but I assume from your posts that you got a bargain?
 
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This car has lived in the Sussex / Hampshire area for the last ten years with the second owner, but I believe the owner was a visitor here (not sure if just a reader of threads or active).
£2600 was the price. I'm happy at that, given some of the (in my opinion) unrealistic prices being asked for ten year old+ cars out there at dealers.

Will give the technical procedure a go, many thanks Murdo.
 
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