Hi, had my a2 now for about 6 weeks, really impressed with the mpg, I get around 200 miles from £15 diesel currently which is great compared to my golf tdi which gave me 160 miles for £20
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The car has audi a2 OC stickers in the front side windows, not sure if someone owned it on here before hand, if so shout out, let me know about it. I bought the car from a garage not private, the guy traded in for a civic. The reg is Y*** AEN and it is a blue 1.4tdi, I wont give full reg out for obvious purposes. Previous owners name was David I think, but I guess the stickers could have been from before then?
Joined to find out how to do things with this car not having any haynes manuals. I have since owning found a tracker on top of the fuse box which I have cut out, I had trouble reinserting the new water temperature sensor in the back of the block and dumped my coolant out multiple times and had to top it up until last Thursday I had chance of buying more coolant and reinserting the sensor with high temp silicone glue just in case but it is more than likely the U clip wasn't in place properly ad it was dripping out.
Also there seems to be a leak from the steering rack on the passenger side but its not so severe that there is a big mess on the drive yet and I've not had to top it up, just a couple of drips a night maybe, steering feels normal, if anything the gear stick feels pretty stiff in comparison to the mk4 golf pd130 I just sold.
I could like to repair the plastic surround to the handbrake which seems to have been pulled off and snapped and the dash trim under the steering wheel is loose as 2 of the 3 clips are broken. Its not an imperative fix but i'd like to get it done in the next year maybe.
Purposefully got the 75bhp tdi due to my girlfriend having the newer one in a seat ibiza ecomotive and the oil drive chain snapped putting an end to the engine, surprisingly common fault when you searvh for the symptoms on google and no warning light comes on the dash to alert you your oil pump has packed up, it just keeps going until the head seizes up and you break down on the motorway. Then to make it worse the breakdown tries starting it over and over making metal screeching noises, which i said to them, yeah don't do that it shouldn't sound like metal on metal. Then the garage you take it to tries it over and over until smoke comes out the oil filler cap and the thing doesn't turn over again, ever.
So yeah AMF engine for me, they are cheap to replace unlike the newer variety and wayyyyy more reliable, I have had one in a seat arosa over 110k miles, this a3 has done 109k and has fsh so should be fine. there is a sound in it like a loose chain but ive been told that older diesels just make this noise, I do remember the arosa making the same noise so may just be a typical engine noise for the amf, don't really want it to be the oil drive chain though.
Hello everyone, thats far too long for an introductory post but i got started and rambled and my mind goes from one thing to the next so this is what you're left with, sorry!
.The car has audi a2 OC stickers in the front side windows, not sure if someone owned it on here before hand, if so shout out, let me know about it. I bought the car from a garage not private, the guy traded in for a civic. The reg is Y*** AEN and it is a blue 1.4tdi, I wont give full reg out for obvious purposes. Previous owners name was David I think
, but I guess the stickers could have been from before then?Joined to find out how to do things with this car not having any haynes manuals. I have since owning found a tracker on top of the fuse box which I have cut out, I had trouble reinserting the new water temperature sensor in the back of the block and dumped my coolant out multiple times and had to top it up until last Thursday I had chance of buying more coolant and reinserting the sensor with high temp silicone glue just in case but it is more than likely the U clip wasn't in place properly ad it was dripping out.
Also there seems to be a leak from the steering rack on the passenger side but its not so severe that there is a big mess on the drive yet and I've not had to top it up, just a couple of drips a night maybe, steering feels normal, if anything the gear stick feels pretty stiff in comparison to the mk4 golf pd130 I just sold.
I could like to repair the plastic surround to the handbrake which seems to have been pulled off and snapped and the dash trim under the steering wheel is loose as 2 of the 3 clips are broken. Its not an imperative fix but i'd like to get it done in the next year maybe.
Purposefully got the 75bhp tdi due to my girlfriend having the newer one in a seat ibiza ecomotive and the oil drive chain snapped putting an end to the engine, surprisingly common fault when you searvh for the symptoms on google and no warning light comes on the dash to alert you your oil pump has packed up, it just keeps going until the head seizes up and you break down on the motorway. Then to make it worse the breakdown tries starting it over and over making metal screeching noises, which i said to them, yeah don't do that it shouldn't sound like metal on metal. Then the garage you take it to tries it over and over until smoke comes out the oil filler cap and the thing doesn't turn over again, ever.
So yeah AMF engine for me, they are cheap to replace unlike the newer variety and wayyyyy more reliable, I have had one in a seat arosa over 110k miles, this a3 has done 109k and has fsh so should be fine. there is a sound in it like a loose chain but ive been told that older diesels just make this noise, I do remember the arosa making the same noise so may just be a typical engine noise for the amf, don't really want it to be the oil drive chain though.
Hello everyone, thats far too long for an introductory post but i got started and rambled and my mind goes from one thing to the next so this is what you're left with, sorry!
