Recent content by Paul_Oxon

Hopefully glider canopies are slightly more resilient to bird strikes! I was quite surprised how easily it broke, but at least no bodywork damage I suppose. And although it's going to be expensive to repair, at least I have Xenons which is a nice surprise.

After further investigation, I think I do have Xenon headlights after all, not the Halogens that the dealer stated. I thought they were a bit good, and then spotted the lack of a height adjustment control in the car. I assume that on a Sport edition, they are probably adaptive, as in the...

Yes, I can see FM and AM in the waveband select screen, but no sign of DAB. I had thought that DAB was standard, and would definitely have been spec'd on a car with B&O and the tech pack, but it seems not. My own fault for assuming and not checking, though tbh it wouldn't have changed my buying...

Thanks for the info. That's what I suspected, which is rather frustrating as the only damage is to the perspex which is probably only worth a couple of quid! I will have to find out if the Xenons can be easily retrofitted in place of the Halogens, and consider if the extra cost is worthwhile or...

So last Friday I collected my new car - a used 2013 A3 1.8TFSI S-tronic, trading in my previous A3. Loving the car completely, although there are a couple of minor niggles when comparing it to the last one, which have been well documented elsewhere - lag when pulling away (resolvable by changing...