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Today I had new, all-season tyres fitted to the car. I decided to buy another set of rims and found a fairly nice set of "pepperpot" rims at a reasonable price not far from me. This way I can swap wheels for myself in spring and use up the one or two summers of life left in the summer tyres I got with the car and it also gives me an opportunity to have the original 7-spoke wheels restored a bit.
I will have to find center caps to really complete the new look.
 

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After a bit of a to do list from a Failed MOT I have been busy rectifying things. 4 new tyres so they are all as they should be. 2 matching rear coil springs. A new front drop link as the previous had some play. Repaired hole in exhaust with Gum Gum paste and reverted the headlight bulbs from dodgy Xenons back to legal bulbs.

Ready for the retest tomorrow.


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Today I had new, all-season tyres fitted to the car. I decided to buy another set of rims and found a fairly nice set of "pepperpot" rims at a reasonable price not far from me. This way I can swap wheels for myself in spring and use up the one or two summers of life left in the summer tyres I got with the car and it also gives me an opportunity to have the original 7-spoke wheels restored a bit.
I will have to find center caps to really complete the new look.
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Centre caps are available brand new from Audi Tradition. I bought a set to keep in stock for when they are NLA and I need some!
 
Today I had two mini moments of joy:

Firstly, with my wife returning from Epping in Essex back to Devon in the car, she called me when nearly home asking if I wanted her to fuel it while she was out, as it had done over 500 miles on the current tank. When I asked what range was showing on the dash she said it still had 200 miles left showing, so I reassured her it had plenty and she needn’t bother - this earned the car a rare comment of overt praise - “gosh, this car is so economical!”

Yes love, yes it is.

Then this evening I came back to the car in the supermarket car park in Honiton to find a silver Y reg 1.4 SE in excellent condition parked next to it - I exchanged a knowing nod with the owner when he returned a moment later.
 
Started my FSI engine & gearbox removal today ….. going well, but slowly does it, as there are a lot of things to unhook. Taken 3hrs to get the bumper & some other bits off & most electrical connectors undone. Hope to get the entire front panel off tomorrow, drain the liquids (a/c already de-gassed by local garage) & start attacking the mechanical connections.

The car runs great & has just passed its annual tech control without any problems, but l want to do the cam belts, waterpump, death pipe, flaps check & cleaning, new clutch, & sort out a small oil leak around the front cover/sump joint area & just seems much easier to do it on my workbench. Time will tell if its the right decision !

I’m making plenty of notes & photographs to help remembering how it all goes back together 😱
 

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Speaking of reasons to like the A2, the "new" rims came with chunky junk tyres on them so I went to the shop with 4 complete wheels and another 4 tyres. With the seats folded up I got all that stuff in the car quite easily.
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Centre caps are available brand new from Audi Tradition. I bought a set to keep in stock for when they are NLA and I need some!
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Oh, of course. Amusingly they seem to cost more than what I paid for the rims, but I guess that's why the rims were such a good deal...
 
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Started my FSI engine & gearbox removal today ….. going well, but slowly does it, as there are a lot of things to unhook. Taken 3hrs to get the bumper & some other bits off & most electrical connectors undone. Hope to get the entire front panel off tomorrow, drain the liquids (a/c already de-gassed by local garage) & start attacking the mechanical connections.

The car runs great & has just passed its annual tech control without any problems, but l want to do the cam belts, waterpump, death pipe, flaps check & cleaning, new clutch, & sort out a small oil leak around the front cover/sump joint area & just seems much easier to do it on my workbench. Time will tell if its the right decision !

I’m making plenty of notes & photographs to help remembering how it all goes back together 😱
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Day 2 & the front panel is off , coolant drained & ready to attack the bolts holding the lump into the chassis. Slowly does it, but so far nothing too bad, just lots of clips holding the loom in place & all those bl00dy electrical connectors & almost every one detaches in a different way & 20 year old plastic is a bit brittle, to say the least ; only broken 2 so far.
 

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Today I finished insulating the roof. Headliner is away getting recovered. This makes an instant difference in temp and especially noise. Will be even better tomorrow when headliner goes back on. About £25 for the 5mm pads on eBay.
 

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Yesterday I fitted my new number plates, into my A2OC surrounds. The surrounds really lift the car, and they’re excellent quality, German made (Helmut Seitz), lots of holes to fit your screws wherever you want and the number plates clip in really neatly. Thank you @FinallyFiona, and to anyone who’s not got them yet, get your order in now!
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Unfortunately, I ended up making an awful bodge job of the rear plate. The old plate was glued in place with the strongest glue known to mankind and no amount of levering with a screwdriver or chisel would shift it (was worrying about damaging the bodywork) and heating it up didn’t do much to soften the adhesive either. So I ended up mounting the surround over the old plate. It looks ok straight on but unfortunately the edge of the old plate shows at other angles 😕. If anyone has any bright ideas how to remove the old plate I’d be curious to hear!
 
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Thank you @FinallyFiona, and to anyone who’s not got them yet, get your order in now!
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Glad you're enjoying your number plate surrounds Malcolm. :)

Unfortunately, those were one of the last pairs from the stocks and they're now sold out. With the drop off in Shop sales over the last few years and because they are an expensive and bulky item to keep stocks of, the Club's position is that we will order more, but only when demand is going to be sufficient to sell most of them straight away. As such, there is now a registration thread for people to add their interest for a future purchase.
 
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Yesterday I fitted my new number plates, into my A2OC surrounds. The surrounds really lift the car, and they’re excellent quality, German made (Helmut Seitz), lots of holes to fit your screws wherever you want and the number plates clip in really neatly. Thank you @FinallyFiona, and to anyone who’s not got them yet, get your order in now!
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Unfortunately, I ended up making an awful bodge job of the rear plate. The old plate was glued in place with the strongest glue known to mankind and no amount of levering with a screwdriver or chisel would shift it (was worrying about damaging the bodywork) and heating it up didn’t do much to soften the adhesive either. So I ended up mounting the surround over the old plate. It looks ok straight on but unfortunately the edge of the old plate shows at other angles . If anyone has any bright ideas how to remove the old plate I’d be curious to hear!
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Maybe swap the rear door trim panel, to which the number plate fits? Either body colour or black would look good, and you can mount the number plate holder directly to it.

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Jellybean said:
Maybe swap the rear door trim panel, to which the number plate fits? Either body colour or black would look good, and you can mount the number plate holder directly to it.

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Sorry, not quite following you. The plate is stuck fast to the tailgate, can the bottom part of the tailgate, below the seam just above the number plate recess, be easily replaced? Otherwise it would require a whole new tailgate which would be very drastic.
 
Malcyb said:
Sorry, not quite following you. The plate is stuck fast to the tailgate, can the bottom part of the tailgate, below the seam just above the number plate recess, be easily replaced? Otherwise it would require a whole new tailgate which would be very drastic.
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Yes, the panel between the rear lights can be replaced.

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Jellybean said:
Yes, the panel between the rear lights can be replaced.

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Do you know if there is a “how to” covering this? I found a thread referring to it which got as far as how to remove the interior trim (which I’ve done before, horrible job!) but after that I don’t know…
 
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