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Muska said:
Wow, that is amazing! I had a bad experience with AF when I was in the RS Owners club but I'll definitely be checking them out come renewal time :)

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Left a deposit on this:

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TDi 75
1 owner from new
Broken sky
74k
Oodles of service history and a few factory extras

Can't wait to pick it up! Very briefly I'll own two red colour storms with OSS and my TDi (Bert) before selling the other two. These A2's really get under your skin don't they! o_O
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Glad you gave in to temptation. Sounds like a real keeper and combines both of your existing cars
 
timmus said:
I took my A2 for an MOT a few weeks ago, though the new regulations had already come into force. I immediately declared the HID conversion and told the tester not to bother testing the car if he was going to fail it on the basis of the headlights. He said that, as long as the colour temperature is acceptable and the beam pattern is within limits, he didn't care whether the light was emitted by a tungsten filament or a gas discharge. So, my A2 passed with only one advisory - the rear seats are missing!

I've no doubt that the new regulations have been brought in to limit the number of cars driving around with cheap eBay HID kits fitted, which scatter light in all directions. Of course, strictly speaking, my A2 should have failed, but some MOT testers are clearly willing to apply the spirit of the law rather than the letter of the law. Hurray!

Cheers,

Tom
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Funnily enough I had an interesting conversation this very morning with a new (to me at least) MOT tester (my normal ones were all busy and I needed to get Project X through quickly)...

After priming him on some of the "quirks" of the A2 (funnily enough he knew straight away how to get the bonnet off) the conversation turned to the new rules and how it appears to have become (in his view) (a) less stringent and (b) even more ambiguous...

(a) because the new rules are (again these are his words) designed to bring us (the UK) "down" to the average levels of the wider european union (funny, I thought we were trying to get out, but hey-ho!) as "if all the Greek and Czech cars came over here 99% of them would fail pretty dramatically straight away", so a lot of the rules, particularly for older cars (eg pre-2011) are less tight than they used to be, they've just tightened up on all the newer cars.

(b) Similar to your experience Tom, a lot of the rules seem very subjective - I mentioned to him my concerns about the Engine Management Light being on on a lot of cars, and he wasn't at all worried about those, and agreed that "it could be anything with them bloomin' lights".

The outcome on Project X wasn't great, but it could have been a LOT worse. Basically, new discs and pads on the front, clean rear brake drums and adjust handbrake cables, and a new CV gaiter. It did fail on the washer jet being "inoperative", but he said "I'll fill it up and there's no charge for that."
 
timmus said:
I've no doubt that the new regulations have been brought in to limit the number of cars driving around with cheap eBay HID kits fitted, which scatter light in all directions. Of course, strictly speaking, my A2 should have failed, but some MOT testers are clearly willing to apply the spirit of the law rather than the letter of the law. Hurray!

Cheers,

Tom
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Great to hear some common sense prevailed here. ;)
 
picked up my little guy from the garage with a new clutch and various clutch gubbins... apparently I need to learn to drive again as I have stalled twice!

Is THAT what it’s meant to feel like!?!

I almost put my foot through the floor when I engaged with my accustomed pressure - it was so yielding! And I stalled when I lifted as normal when it began to seriously bite an inch off the carpet!

WHAAAAAAT?!?!?!

In retrospect it should have been obvious given it was a heavier change than my ‘89 VW campervan... ?



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Yes, a very heavy / stiff clutch pedal is often an indication of a clutch that is heavily worn.

One replaced it does take a bit to get used to the new “bite point”. But you should be fine after a few miles of town traffic.
Steve B
 
Finally changed heater blower resistor and my air con is working again :)
 

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Birchall said:
Yes, a very heavy / stiff clutch pedal is often an indication of a clutch that is heavily worn.

One replaced it does take a bit to get used to the new “bite point”. But you should be fine after a few miles of town traffic.
Steve B
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I think ‘heavy’ was relative - it’s been that way since I got it and my last car had had no clutch!

I thought I’d broken it!


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sciroccorrado said:
This sounds like the steering on my Scirocco (no power steering there), when I drove it day to day I had huge upper arm strength, nowadays ... phew!
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Got into an early Golf with no power steering and a very small flat bottomed aftermarket Sparco racing wheel... I decided to just go around the long way rather than do a three point in it! OMFG!

Campervan = maaaaasssive steering wheel. Easy!



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Good Point Teresa

Yes, if anyone has that lower headlamp bolt that is NOT already stiff or locked then please lubricate them now.

The threads are exposed underneath and so a bit of lubrication is essential BEFORE the nightmare happens and it locks and then spins without undoing.

Steve B
 
Today was MOT day on the Akoya tdi--car has only just turned over 73k miles on an 05 plate but its always a worry with the new regulations and test criteria. Car was washed and cleaned of a few bits of rubbish and then warmed up and taken for an italian tune around some quiet country lanes.
Arrived at the test centre and handed over the keys -- first was the emissions test passed with good results limit was 3.00 readings were 1.42. Next up lights and chassis inspection. Only issue was drivers side headlamp was low so looking in through the front revealed the bulb was not sitting correct. So off came the bonnet and reseated.
No advisories and a pass for another year-Great little cars. Now im going to pamper it with some nice polish.
 
a2sumo said:
Today was MOT day on the Akoya tdi--car has only just turned over 73k miles on an 05 plate but its always a worry with the new regulations and test criteria. Car was washed and cleaned of a few bits of rubbish and then warmed up and taken for an italian tune around some quiet country lanes.
Arrived at the test centre and handed over the keys -- first was the emissions test passed with good results limit was 3.00 readings were 1.42. Next up lights and chassis inspection. Only issue was drivers side headlamp was low so looking in through the front revealed the bulb was not sitting correct. So off came the bonnet and reseated.
No advisories and a pass for another year-Great little cars. Now im going to pamper it with some nice polish.
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Haha yours did better than mine!
 
Today I replaced the pollen, air and fuel filters on my fsi. I was cursing someone for not replacing the fuel filter cover but on closer inspection I cannot see any way to attach it. I wonder did I ever have one.
 

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Took a spanner to the fsi. After 2 hrs i wanted to take a hammer to it! Every time i work on it something breaks. This car is seriously giving audi a bad name (excuse the pun).
 
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