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    Engine noises

    £6k for a new engine!!! the car cost half that!! it would be new car time. Im using it as little as possible but still need to get to work, just keeping fingers crossed! this morning i was sat in traffic and it started rattling really bad, it had not done it the day before, and i noticed...
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    Engine noises

    Thanks mate, i will check the tensioner, i really hope its not that though!!! Ste.
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    Engine noises

    Hi, My car was fine until i drove from manchester to london and back the other day, when i got home i could hear the engine rattling, it was like a tin of spanners! if i rev it, the noise goes away. then the next day i was driving to work and it started making a sort of loud whistle?? a bit like...
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    What do you do for a living?

    Im a pinspotter technician. I work in a bowling alley, i sit round the back and fix everything that goes wrong, there are not that many people who even know my job exists!! i think people thinks its all magic behind those lanes!!! lol The machines themselves are not small (6ft tall) and...
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    2.6 rear pads lucas or teves?

    I didnt change the discs, if it wasnt just before xmas i would have done but i just needed the car up and running fast! i normaly get stuff like that from www.buypartsby.com the rear discs for mine are £12.15 + vat each from there, pads are £11.43 + vat for the set. I just couldnt wait for...
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    2.6 rear pads lucas or teves?

    halfrauds said could try them and if wrong get a refund, just fitted them, they are the lucas type. how hard is it to screw back that piston!!! should have bought the proper tool! lol Ste.
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    2.6 rear pads lucas or teves?

    Got a grinding on the rear brakes, not the best time of year for it!! just phoned halfrauds and they said is 2 different types, they stock lucas but not teves, does anybody know which i will have? its a 1995 fwd. Cheers, Ste.
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    BNP

    Just had a quick read of the 'manifesto', think everybody has discussed the immigration point, but was just wondering if anybody had read the rest? If im reading it right, we are going to pull our troops out of Iraq (and i assume Afganistan although its not mentioned??), bring all our troops out...
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    Wanted. RS4 replica alloy.

    I have kerb damaged one of my alloys and its bent!! so im looking to see if anybody has a spare one for sale, its the RS4 replica ET35, i cant ask on the trading section as i dont have enough posts yet, i have tried ebay but no luck.
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    Time Travel

    If it was possible to travel into the future that would mean that your whole life has already been planned out, otherwise how could there be a future to go too?? i would like to think that the choices i make are my own and not that im just following 1 big planned out future!! so i would say...
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    What brought you to audi-sport.net???

    Yeah that about sums me up too!!! I had been a member of the ford RS owners club and i thought there must be something like that for audi's.
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    i can be found in the northwest

    I would be up for this
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    My first Audi

    So i was the only person using the radio?? thats funny!!! Well done nearly 2k in the audi now and i dont think i will be going back to fords any time soon! only concern now is i only got a printout of the service history, no book, so i dont know if it had its timing belt done, and at 129k i...
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    My first Audi

    At the top of the screen it says... Forum User CP Gallery Frappr New Posts Calendar Radio.... I use it when im at work, got speakers hooked up to the comp all around the workshop and the machines i work on.
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    My first Audi

    Thanks for the welcome!! I love the radio player on the site too, nice touch.