dancaz79
Member
Good morning all! New member to the site but have been lurking on and off for a little while!
So this is it, my recently acquired A2, it has around 185,000 miles but shows 61,000 as it had a new odometer fitted prior to me buying it.
It's a 2002 1.4 TDi 75 sport, 5 seater, 4 electric windows, full DIS, climate and a working open sky!
Obviously we have a few issues which I'll try and work my way through and keep documented here. Firstly I fitted a new thermostat as the temperature on the journey home from Hartlepool to Morpeth never got above 70°C on the gauge. Bit tricky getting to the bottom bolt but got there in the end and temp now sits nicely at 90°C.
Gearbox isn't the best feeling and has a slight crunch into 3rd if you're not careful so I'll start with an oil change and see how that goes, maybe look into the 6 speed options if that doesn't improve things.
Last evidence of cambelt being changed in 2015 so thats high on the priority list!! Will do water pump,aux belt and a service while I'm in there.
Central locking doesn't work from the remote but does on the key. Passenger front door doesn't show on DIS when open so not sure if this will be a microswitch issue or a CCCU problem, more investigation required. Found the remote batteries in the fobs upside down but putting new ones in the right way round hasn't resolved the issue!
Other than that all was good until yesterday when the abs/traction light lit up along with a loud beep and red flashing dash!! OBD11 says its a 00778 steering angle sensor mechanical malfunction. Tracking isn't great on the car and pulls to the left quite badly so have booked in for a wheel alignment on Friday and will go from there.
So there we have it! Hope to use this great site to its fullest and get ONU back to running reliably in the near future.
Thanks all