Hi All,
Hope you’re all keeping safe during this awful pandemic. Hopefully we’ll slowly begin to return to normal as the summer approaches. Until then I thought I would check up on my neglected 8L S3.
She’s been tucked up in a garage for a little less than four months. Today I made sure the battery was fully charged and put it into the vehicle. The car started first time. Got to love that German engineering. But it’s not without a problem....with the car in neutral, if I push the gear stick left (as though I’m selecting first) but then don’t select the gear, the stick should spring back to neutral. Well, it no longer does that. Moving my stick left or right is very stiff. I have a hunch there is some light surface rust somewhere as it’s been sat for nearly four months.
Can somebody give me an idea of what to check first please. I seem to have a lot of time on my hands. Also the passenger side window went down whilst I was resetting the switch and now it won’t come back up again. Serves me right.....she’s getting her own back on me.
Just goes to show, keep on driving your cars every couple of weeks!
Hope you’re all keeping safe during this awful pandemic. Hopefully we’ll slowly begin to return to normal as the summer approaches. Until then I thought I would check up on my neglected 8L S3.
She’s been tucked up in a garage for a little less than four months. Today I made sure the battery was fully charged and put it into the vehicle. The car started first time. Got to love that German engineering. But it’s not without a problem....with the car in neutral, if I push the gear stick left (as though I’m selecting first) but then don’t select the gear, the stick should spring back to neutral. Well, it no longer does that. Moving my stick left or right is very stiff. I have a hunch there is some light surface rust somewhere as it’s been sat for nearly four months.
Can somebody give me an idea of what to check first please. I seem to have a lot of time on my hands. Also the passenger side window went down whilst I was resetting the switch and now it won’t come back up again. Serves me right.....she’s getting her own back on me.
Just goes to show, keep on driving your cars every couple of weeks!