Birchall
Dick Chown Award 2016
Hi,
Some of you are going to laugh at me over this one, but I just discovered another little "feature" that I didn't know about the A2 !!
The battery on my wife's A2 was showing signs of failing over the last couple of weeks, slow cranking, especially when cold (earths were all fine). (Original battery so no complaints there)
So I decided to treat it to a new battery.
I have done my back in a few days ago and so decided to take it to Halfords and buy one there and let them carry and fit it.
I went for the one that was a tad more expensive but came with a 5 year warrantee, £149,99 fitted.
The guy made me smile, he assumed that because I wanted it to be fitted I wasn't mechanically minded or "A2 aware".
His first comment was "I don't know why these have such a huge battery"
He then told me that the A2 was based on the "D Class Mercedes !!!!! (I put him right)
After a struggle to get the bolts in (they can be tricky when the BOSE is in the way) he finally managed it.
He was a nice enough guy top.
But the thing I learned about the A2 that I wasn't aware of was the fact that if you fold back the "false floor" and leave it in place, it has Velcro on it that holds the battery compartment flap open for you !!!
Now such a small but useful thing like that would not have won Audi any more sales and even though the Velcro strip was just a cost of pennies, someone in the accounts department had to ok the spend for very little benefit!!!
I can imagine that there are a lot of you thinking "you didn't know that????, after owning several A2s over 14 tears!!"
But yes, it was something else that I hadn't discovered. But it yet another small thing that constantly convinces me that they did spend a lot of time, thought and money on the A2 design and someone in the team (or perhaps the whole team) actually enjoyed doing it!!
Steve B
Some of you are going to laugh at me over this one, but I just discovered another little "feature" that I didn't know about the A2 !!
The battery on my wife's A2 was showing signs of failing over the last couple of weeks, slow cranking, especially when cold (earths were all fine). (Original battery so no complaints there)
So I decided to treat it to a new battery.
I have done my back in a few days ago and so decided to take it to Halfords and buy one there and let them carry and fit it.
I went for the one that was a tad more expensive but came with a 5 year warrantee, £149,99 fitted.
The guy made me smile, he assumed that because I wanted it to be fitted I wasn't mechanically minded or "A2 aware".
His first comment was "I don't know why these have such a huge battery"
He then told me that the A2 was based on the "D Class Mercedes !!!!! (I put him right)
After a struggle to get the bolts in (they can be tricky when the BOSE is in the way) he finally managed it.
He was a nice enough guy top.
But the thing I learned about the A2 that I wasn't aware of was the fact that if you fold back the "false floor" and leave it in place, it has Velcro on it that holds the battery compartment flap open for you !!!
Now such a small but useful thing like that would not have won Audi any more sales and even though the Velcro strip was just a cost of pennies, someone in the accounts department had to ok the spend for very little benefit!!!
I can imagine that there are a lot of you thinking "you didn't know that????, after owning several A2s over 14 tears!!"
But yes, it was something else that I hadn't discovered. But it yet another small thing that constantly convinces me that they did spend a lot of time, thought and money on the A2 design and someone in the team (or perhaps the whole team) actually enjoyed doing it!!
Steve B