What a pleasure it was to deal with the owners, very nice people and was only for sale due to his wife not being able to use the car anymore.Just now received a text from Hitesh asking " was everything ok?" We were talking as you do, and he only traveled to Bristol 4 1/2 years ago to buy the car after spending ages looking for a high specced car. The owners before had a very nice private plate on it. The poor bloke has only gone a taken a £70 fine for picking me up outside Leicester station. I've offered to pay half of it but he's refused, it's his honour i believe as i was his guest. So me thinks a nice bunch of flowers via inter flora for his wife is on the cards.
Anyway,.................... as you do when your sitting on a train about to pull out of St. Pancras station,........... i sent a text to Darren and said even though it's not been advertised i bet it's got a false floor kit. Sure enough it did,
Hit the jackpot, and to top it all it also has cruise control which Hitesh said he didn't know if it worked but sure enough it worked perfectly on the motorway.
Oh and to top of all of that,
it also has a full set factory floor mats with the crucial front mats i've been after for over a year!!
So as the car stands right now, the oil is as clean as a whistle, mind you i'm not surprised given the 6 long life oil changes at Audi and 4 normal oil changes,yet low miles between the last 4, so 10 in all and only 85,300 miles covered. Thankfully the engine was cold when i started it and having read they can be a bit noisy when cold was surprised this one was silent so very very pleased !
There's no doubt the FSI is a nice car, i took it easy after filling her up. I covered 90 miles yet the diss indicated 450 left in the tank driving at the speed limit. So it's impressive in the fuel department indicating 560 miles on a tank which beats the 1.4 which we managed 514 actually travelled give or take a couple miles only. This car is an se model on 16" alloys and feels so much more comfortable than the 17" sport spec of our 1.4 but our 1.4 feels so well planted and it's something i love but must admit this Se spec car i could certainly get used to on our dreadful roads.
One thing that really put me of was getting into a car without colour diss, there's no way i could go back now!
So we have the engine light on as i indicated at the start of this thread and in the service records i have 2 fault codes; -
1. 17439 - intake manifold tuning valve (N316) set point t not reached P1031
2. 17432 - Control valve fuel pressure - N276 open circuit P1024.
Going to go out for a drive a bit later and the Mrs has said she's doing the same Lol. She mentioned what if i don't want to let it go? i said i'm afraid you'll have to but rest assured the 1.4 will be a much better car when the new engine is sorted.
The only pic for now.