Recent content by mike beech

Just closing this one off. I changed the wheel bearing yesterday and the creaking noise has thankfully gone. Not sure how long the bearings last generally but it was an original fitment and the car has covered 72,000 miles.

Thanks for the reply, I ended up buying some new front disks which didn’t solve it. It was quiet for a mile or two, and I managed to break the pad wear indicator. Further investigation pointing to the front n/s wheel bearing. It’s finally stopped raining in Lancashire so I’m getting a new...

Cheers, not logged back in since I posted a few weeks back. Still loving the S3

Hello, After a quick bit of help, I've just bought an immaculate facelift 8P S3 for the wife and we are very happy with it but its got a bizarre squeaking/creaking noise which I have traced to the front nearside wheel. I've jacked the car up briefly and the squeak happens at a certain point in...

Hello All, I was a member on here many many years ago when I had a TT 225 coupe and a B7 TFSI quattro avant afterwards, I've had a break from Audi's for over 10 years, but have previously owned a good few others including an original 1986 2.2 Coupe back in the mid nineties and a couple of 80...

Thanks so much for the replies guys and girls. It sounds like they are pretty much a great car by all accounts then! I'm not too bothered about running costs MPG etc, I work from home and we've got a volvo 2.0d for the mile munching as well. My last Range Rover stung me for nearly 4 grand in...

Hello All, I'm an on and off member on here having recently owned a TTC 225, an A3 2.0 TDI sport and an A4 2.0 TFSI quattro over the past 5 years. I've just sold my Range Rover TD6 (Money Pit!!!) and I am looking at a cheaper car for a year or so, with a bit of oomph and ideally an auto box...

http://www.jkm.org.uk/performance/tfsidiverters.htm Link for the later audi diverter valve, scroll to bottom of page. These are only fitted as standard to B8 audi 2.0 TFSI's not B7's but a direct fit for all B7's. Someone else recommended this company to me and cant praise them enough, spoke...

Is it a turbo or just normal aspirated? I'd say £10 to 11k is optimistic, I've just sold my 2.0 TFSI quattro S Line Avant 72k miles with sat nav/bose and loads of other bits and only got £10400. I know its got lowish miles but I'd pitch it at £9995 to get any hope of interest

Neal, sorry just re-read the bottom bit of your original post. Is yours bad on fuel then? You should be getting a minimum of about 40mpg even with heavy town driving, if it worse than that, maybe the MAF sensor is faulty or on its way out. Get it plugged into a diagnostics machine if you can...

Path, It constantly monitors your driving so if you had been driving uneconomically when you fill up then it will assume you are going to carry on driving it hard and therefore tell you the range. If you are driving it gently when you fill up however I'd be expecting your range to be somewhere...

Jon, depending on what model it is makes a massive difference, I've got a 2.0T quattro and that cost around £1000 for a new clutch and flywheel which are main dealer only parts on my car (or they were at the time) which was fitted by a garage/clutch specialist who I knew. If its a 2.0 TDI 2wd...

If you've got the choice I'd go for the quattro, totally sure footed at all times, from what I know/previous high powered 2wd and speaking to other people, chipping the 2wd just results in slippage in anything other than perfect conditions. Also there is plenty of mid range with mine, it...

i'm a dumb ****, just looked at the info sheet, the DV is fitted to the turbo housing itself not a hose as I said. Its about a 30 mins job to do and the undertray needs to be taken off to access the relevant area. Its almost impossible to do this job from above. I had to do it twice because...

Its located to the front of the engine on the airbox side of the engine bay attached to a hose coming directly off the turbo. There is a fitting guide on the forge website to fit the DV spacer and the actual Diverter Valve needs to be removed to fit this. The new upgraded audi one is miles...