New car

Well picked up my new car today - 2006 A3 TDi sport S-Line in Akoya silver

Drove 90 miles to swap over averaging 26mpg in the Focus ST2 and comming home averaged upto 51.7mpg in the A3 - bit of a difference

The A3 engine is noisier than the Merc sprinter van i drive during the day which suprised me? it is smooth though (i stalled in in the petrol station ) so i guess i'm happy

Got it home and it was cleaned with the pressure wash, snowfoamed, rinsed and fully clayed ready for a detail with the DA tommorow (booked 2 days off work).I did under the bonnet with a cleaning solution and plenty of rags so it's spotless as well. I also debadged the rear (left the rings on) and have ordered a S-Line badge to fit where the 2.0tdi badge went

1 of the things i find annoying is the seatbelt reminder, i know i'm supposed to wear the belt but i don't want the car telling me - is there a way of disabling this feature?

I've also found 1 of the parcel shelf brackets (the part with the rubber which sits in the groove) is missing - can these be bought seperate?

I'll be fitting a black grille and LCR splitter later on so is there any other subtle/ cheap mods i can do easily?

pics will be taken at the weekend weather permitting

Hi George
I kept looking on pistonheads, autotrader and ebay - this one was on ebay as a set price of £11990 (43k on clock) which seemed a good price as similar year/ mileage cars were upto £14000 at other garages. I bought this from a VW main dealers and haggled for a few things doing and for a warranty worth £395 thrown in so i guess the price i ended up paying was £11500 and they gave me more for my p/x than other garages were offering

Hope you manage to find 1 and make sure you get a good warranty

A3Bash said:

Yep the feature can be disabled in VCDS (diagnostic tool) but it wouldn't annoy me.

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Thanks - is this like Vag-Com (laptop thingy)?