Morning all,
Just got my S3 back from the dealer last night after it has been having the usual coolant leak fixed under warranty. While it was in I asked them to locate and rectify an annoying rattle coming from the lower drivers foot well area. Turns out upon collection the annoying rattle was an 8mm hex head screw rolling about against the drivers knee airbag.
I have the culprit screw and it has came from one of the locating screws holding in the dash cluster (Circled Red on the attached image). Audi wanted £138 to screw this back in, big job apparently, takes a long time. But that's another story!
Upon inspection, when I removed the trim piece to screw the screw back in, i noticed my dash appears to have been cut away. So I suspect the previous owner retrofitted a VC and removed prior to sale.
The worrying thing for me now, and I am at work and cant check, is does my ECU odometer reading match my current cluster reading!? As I doubt the previous owner bothered to rectify the mileage prior to refitting on the original cluster.
I bought the car at 12000 miles, but wondering if it really was a 12000 mile car?? I can check this tonight with VCDS when I get home. However I now have a few niggling alarm bells in my head that when I bought the car tyres were like 2.5mm, pretty low for that mileage but I assumed car had just been driven hard. Also it had new brake pads all round - surely 12000 miles is too early for that!
So question's are if you can help:
Does the picture look like what you need to cut away to fit VC?
I have had the car into the dealer twice since I have owned it, once for warranty work and once for a service. When they record the mileage for the service would they use the ECU mileage or just belive the odometer, as they have noted on the invoice the same mileage as the odometer is displaying.
I know in other brands like MB - when their is a mismatch between ECU mileage and cluster mileage, the cluster just displays -------- on the odometer. Do VAG cars do the same?
Just got my S3 back from the dealer last night after it has been having the usual coolant leak fixed under warranty. While it was in I asked them to locate and rectify an annoying rattle coming from the lower drivers foot well area. Turns out upon collection the annoying rattle was an 8mm hex head screw rolling about against the drivers knee airbag.
I have the culprit screw and it has came from one of the locating screws holding in the dash cluster (Circled Red on the attached image). Audi wanted £138 to screw this back in, big job apparently, takes a long time. But that's another story!
Upon inspection, when I removed the trim piece to screw the screw back in, i noticed my dash appears to have been cut away. So I suspect the previous owner retrofitted a VC and removed prior to sale.
The worrying thing for me now, and I am at work and cant check, is does my ECU odometer reading match my current cluster reading!? As I doubt the previous owner bothered to rectify the mileage prior to refitting on the original cluster.
I bought the car at 12000 miles, but wondering if it really was a 12000 mile car?? I can check this tonight with VCDS when I get home. However I now have a few niggling alarm bells in my head that when I bought the car tyres were like 2.5mm, pretty low for that mileage but I assumed car had just been driven hard. Also it had new brake pads all round - surely 12000 miles is too early for that!
So question's are if you can help:
Does the picture look like what you need to cut away to fit VC?
I have had the car into the dealer twice since I have owned it, once for warranty work and once for a service. When they record the mileage for the service would they use the ECU mileage or just belive the odometer, as they have noted on the invoice the same mileage as the odometer is displaying.
I know in other brands like MB - when their is a mismatch between ECU mileage and cluster mileage, the cluster just displays -------- on the odometer. Do VAG cars do the same?