Hi everyone, I bought my first A2 last week and have been enjoying getting to know it, and have already found some useful information on this excellent site.
My car is a 2003 1.6 FSI SE in ebony with a beige leather interior, and has done just over 100,000 miles. It's got some other great options - Sat Nav, DIS, climate control, space saver spare wheel and the all-important twin illuminated vanity mirrors!
I was a bit concerned when I was told by the previous owner that the head gasket had been done last year - is this engine prone to head gasket failure? It seems fine now, I'm hoping it was just an isolated incident due to loss of coolant or something like that.
The only fault I've found at the moment is one of the rear seats won't fold down - I've found the thread on here 'everything you wanted to know about seat faults' or whatever it's called and I have spent some time jumping up and down on it and shaking it from side to side but to no avail so far, I'll keep trying. I am also a little concerned to find that there is a row of holes along the top of the front bumper that look as though they should be attached to something but are not, that needs investigating further.
The A2 was bought as a baby brother to my 2005 S4 cabriolet (with the lovely 4.2 litre V8 engine) in sprint blue, which has only done 70,000 miles and I wanted to stop putting so many miles on it as I see it as a future classic. Maybe the A2 is achieving classic status too. In one of those weird coincidences I have discovered that both my Audi's were supplied new by Loders Audi in Yeovil, what are the chances of that!
I'm going to try to attach a couple of pictures of the A2 if the site will let me.
My car is a 2003 1.6 FSI SE in ebony with a beige leather interior, and has done just over 100,000 miles. It's got some other great options - Sat Nav, DIS, climate control, space saver spare wheel and the all-important twin illuminated vanity mirrors!
I was a bit concerned when I was told by the previous owner that the head gasket had been done last year - is this engine prone to head gasket failure? It seems fine now, I'm hoping it was just an isolated incident due to loss of coolant or something like that.
The only fault I've found at the moment is one of the rear seats won't fold down - I've found the thread on here 'everything you wanted to know about seat faults' or whatever it's called and I have spent some time jumping up and down on it and shaking it from side to side but to no avail so far, I'll keep trying. I am also a little concerned to find that there is a row of holes along the top of the front bumper that look as though they should be attached to something but are not, that needs investigating further.
The A2 was bought as a baby brother to my 2005 S4 cabriolet (with the lovely 4.2 litre V8 engine) in sprint blue, which has only done 70,000 miles and I wanted to stop putting so many miles on it as I see it as a future classic. Maybe the A2 is achieving classic status too. In one of those weird coincidences I have discovered that both my Audi's were supplied new by Loders Audi in Yeovil, what are the chances of that!
I'm going to try to attach a couple of pictures of the A2 if the site will let me.
