Hi, just picked up an S3 today test drove it last week and picked it up today.
The car was sweet, driving home and about 60miles down the motorway the stereo stops and an intermitent beep starts (no dash warning lights) and sounds for about 30secs. so i pulled into the next service station to check its all ok and at lowspeed when steering i hear a whiring noise. when stationary and turning left to right the noise is deffinatly coming from around the PAS pump, altenator, AC compressor area.
Are theire any known faults with the S3's power steering?
Drove it back and it seems fine just making a whiring noise, then i went from my dads house to my house and along a dual carriage way i start to get some vibration under acceleration from the left front any ideas what this could be?
There is also a knocking coming from the gearbox when in nuetral with the clutch up. as soon as the clutch is pressed the knocking stops.
Also the car only came with 1 key that is not the remote, went to the dealers and they quoted my £175 for the key cutting and coding. are there any other places that can do this cheaper?
Cheers in advance.
Cal
The car was sweet, driving home and about 60miles down the motorway the stereo stops and an intermitent beep starts (no dash warning lights) and sounds for about 30secs. so i pulled into the next service station to check its all ok and at lowspeed when steering i hear a whiring noise. when stationary and turning left to right the noise is deffinatly coming from around the PAS pump, altenator, AC compressor area.
Are theire any known faults with the S3's power steering?
Drove it back and it seems fine just making a whiring noise, then i went from my dads house to my house and along a dual carriage way i start to get some vibration under acceleration from the left front any ideas what this could be?
There is also a knocking coming from the gearbox when in nuetral with the clutch up. as soon as the clutch is pressed the knocking stops.
Also the car only came with 1 key that is not the remote, went to the dealers and they quoted my £175 for the key cutting and coding. are there any other places that can do this cheaper?
Cheers in advance.
Cal