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    Audi a3 hazards light problem!

    Hi all I own a 1.6 a3... 1.6... I know :( it is a 52 plate and I have been experiencing some real problems with the hazard lights. I'll be driving for anything from 30seconds to 10 minutes and the hazard lights start flashing for no reason what so ever. I'll then press the hazard...
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    Audi a3 what's this part?

    Hi, I am just wondering what this part is on my 1.6 a3 engine code bfq. This isn't the pic of my engine but it's the same one. What is that silver part at the back with the silver pipe coming off it that the air intake connects to from the maf? I took that silver pipe off with the two Allen...
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    Audi A3 1.6 as my first car?

    Don't get a diesel though. I don't like cars that sound like vans. Just sell your mothers house and buy an r8. I'm sure with the change you could keep her In a B & b for a few nights :)
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    Would anyone mind

    Buying me an audi r8? Id settle for an rs6! Haha
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    Knock driving me crazy!

    Wheel bearings?
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    Rear end knock.

    Wheel bearings?
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    Audi A3 1.6 as my first car?

    Let me give you a little insight. I am 23, drove a little fiesta from 17-18. I turned 18 and got myself an audi a3 1.6 from team valley car sales near newcastle. It was a 4 door and when I drove it 20 miles away from the garage the fault light came up. Thinking it was something small I carried...
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    Audi a3/s3. O2 sensor Good advice.

    It couldn't be in anymore of a awkward place!
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    Audi a3/s3. O2 sensor Good advice.

    Hi all, I am giving you all good advice when changing the precat sensor on an audi a3! get a garage to do it. I've spent a full day trying to get the awkward socket on then attaching the socket bar on and it just will not turn. I've blowtorched it. I've wd40'd it. I've Had a pair of...
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    Audi a3 o2 sensor pleaseeee help!!

    Hi all, i have the slowest version of the a3 (the 1.6!) engine code bfq. its a 52 plate with 76k! never had a service in well over 5 years! So today i spent a full day servicing it! Changed pollen filter, air filter, fuel filter, oil filter and castrol 5w30 oil change. I replaced the oil...
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    Audi a3 fuel filter

    Thanks very much!
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    A3 very strange noises

    I'll take a look, worth checking thanks
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    FML.... P*ss wet through passenger footwell.

    Same thing with my a3. It was the scutter panel wasn't in the way it should be, the side that covers the pollen filter has a rubber drip gap on the side and mine was sticking out
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    A3 very strange noises

    Hi all, every time I get in my a3 (1.6 engine code bfq. 76k miles 52' plate). Soon as I press the accelerator I hear something like bubbles going through some pipes! Soon as I press my foot down it sounds like something blows all the bubbles away. It does this once for about a second or two...
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    Audi a3 fuel filter

    Hi, I have a 1.6 52 plate a3 engine code bfq. It's never been serviced in I imagine over 5 years. I have changed pollen filter. Air filter. Full oil change and filter. Had the manifold off to change the spark plugs (nightmare) However need to change fuel filter. Where is this located and...
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    which radiator fan should run??

    Could be a sensor keep in mind, or for that matter the fan relay unit. Are you handy with a multimeter? Get engine hot try and try and sit something on the accelerator, I used a tool box got it to rev at 2000. Turn air con on cold. See if there's power to the fan if there isn't it's not the fan...
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    I hate cars....

    The small tube that connects to the air flow from the rocker cover (near where you pour oil in) always splits and leaks out! That's probley the most common place I've seen these leak. It doesn't leak much but still when you put your hand on it you take your hand off and your hands are always covered
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    Finally Have my S3!!!

    Sweet ride. Be sure to put the better fuel in her, and make sure her oils always nice. And don't put her in to any trees etc
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    ?? temp only going to 80 deg

    Never buy cheap crap parts thinking you've saved yourself a fortune. If anything you'll have spent more because the cheap crap will last you a month or two and then you will have to buy the real thing. Don't buy an audi and put cheap tacky vauxhall Peugeot parts on them! Audi'so deserve to be...
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    Price of OEM MAF S3

    When buying parts such as the maf. Do not deviate from any other parts other than a genuine original product. Think mafs are around the £140 mark, phone your local audi garage and tell them the chassis number (you can find this at the bottom corner of the front windscreen, or On a sticker in...