Recent content by motorsportbeng

I've had a fault code come up on my 8L A3 1.8t quattro sport a couple of months ago and traced it to be a coolant temp sensor (P1290 springs to mind but i didn't keep what I had written down!) As I never really get the car out of cold start temps on my daily commute I took a good few weeks to...

I have recently bought a 8l A3 1.8t quattro sport and for the past 2 weeks its been faultless, I have been doing lots of miles in it etc. due to the novelty of it being a new car. Got in it this afternoon pulled only 1/2 a mile down the road and its starts hesitating with a vibration as you...

hi all, I'm on the look out for an a3 1.8t. I test drove my first example today which was a 5 door quattro version, and I was very impressed by how well it drove considering it had covered 100k miles. only few concerns I had were a tappety noise when I was listening before the test drive but...