Retrofit False Booth - Worth it?

The A2 was, over its entire production run, offered with 4 different interior colours. By the time the FSI was available, only three were available. Although Audi give them funky names, they are black (Soul), pale grey (Platinum) and cream (Twist).
For Platinum and Twist, late on in the production run it was also possible to specify a Soul boot area, which included the sides, false floor if fitted, lower carpet and all the trims on and under the tailgate, but rather defeated the object of the exercise by not extending to the carpeted rear seatbacks. It'll be obvious if you've got one of these cars.
 
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Bear in mind most retrofit kits will not include the lower carpet that covers the battery area. You could end up with a soul black boot until you lift the false floor to find the twist or platinum carpet.
 
One thing to note if retrofitting the false floor , not all cars have the captive rivnuts fitted into the metalwork where the rail support brackets fit. Some of the locations are covered with noise insulation.
Quite right. I've fitted the false floor countless times, as you might imagine, and have the necessary tool to add the missing rivnuts. I used this on @Proghound's A2 in the recent past when retrofitting the boot-mounted CD changer.

Cheers,

Tom
 
The A2 was, over its entire production run, offered with 4 different interior colours. By the time the FSI was available, only three were available. Although Audi give them funky names, they are black (Soul), pale grey (Platinum) and cream (Twist).

Cheers,

Tom
So mines Soul Black. Thanks @timmus for your help.
If anyone has one that's surplus to requirements, please give me a shout.
Mac.
 
Timmus could probably tell you with more certainty, but I think the rear most ones will be MISSING and only the ones that are in the wheel arches will be present.
 
Afternoon,

I think £50ish for the rivnut tool is a good price. That said, if you was on a tight budget, like I always seem to be, then you could just fit the false floor by only using the existing threads already in the A2, should be fine for a while until you can get to Tom and have the additional rivnuts added. It would of course mean ramoving the boot interior trim panels again though.

I must admit that I have yet to have my false floor ‘fully’ bolted in and have had no problems with rattles, vibrations or the brackets failing whilst carrying the occasional heavy load. I will get round to adding the missing rivnuts though as it’s certainly the right thing to do.

Tom can I have a go with the rivnut tool when we eventually get together sir?

Kind regards,

Tom
 
Afternoon,

I think £50ish for the rivnut tool is a good price. That said, if you was on a tight budget, like I always seem to be, then you could just fit the false floor by only using the existing threads already in the A2, should be fine for a while until you can get to Tom and have the additional rivnuts added. It would of course mean ramoving the boot interior trim panels again though.

I must admit that I have yet to have my false floor ‘fully’ bolted in and have had no problems with rattles, vibrations or the brackets failing whilst carrying the occasional heavy load. I will get round to adding the missing rivnuts though as it’s certainly the right thing to do.

Tom can I have a go with the rivnut tool when we eventually get together sir?

Kind regards,

Tom

Thanks for the 'testimonial'. I will try it without and see how it goes. I can always remove the false floor in case of really heavy loads.
 
If you want a temporary solution for the missing rear rivnuts, there is no reason why you could not just use standard nuts where the rivnuts are missing as they are reasonably accessible. I would use locknuts to be sure. Can be replaced at a later date with the correct rivnuts.
 
Would a basic 2002 model have come with false floor as mine does have it?the full size spare will fill the void nicely so maybe no need for all bolts? (Mine does anyway but i presume it has all bolts)
 
A base model (no foglights, plastic steering wheel etc.) might have had a false floor if the first owner ordered it from the options list. An SE (foglights, leather wheel) had one as standard. From what Tom @timmus was telling me, it's the 2002 model year that was the first one to only have all the rivnuts fitted for the options ordered with the car (although some rivnuts were fitted to all cars).
 
False floor was on the options list ( like so many items back in the day ). If it was opted for then all the bolts will be fitted correctly.


Just as Ian was typing.
 
Yeah basic basic so guessing the factory fitted it as i dont feel the car has ever been enthusiast owned!
 
I think they stopped fitting the rivnuts to the rear locations when they stopped offering the fold flat space saver tyre. Up to then they had them all regardless of false floor option or not.
 
Following with interest as I have all the bits stashed in the garage to attempt fitting when the weather gets warmer!

When was the fold flat tyre and option stopped?
 
I’ve had a car without the false floor and one with it. When I didn’t have it I had a very large and useful space, but always lusted after the false floor and desperately wanted to retrofit it. Having got a car with it in, frankly I wouldn’t bother now and it’s more of a hassle than a help! Boot space is markedly reduced and although the false floor can be easily removed, there’s nowhere to put it and the brackets on each side catch on whatever I carry.
 
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