Hi all,
After a brief stint away from Audi (wholey due to the horrendous customer service from Taunton Audi and then reinforced by the horrendous customer service from Audi UK), I find myself back in an A3!
Sob story however, I'm a self employed contractor in the IT world and pre-covid it was all rosey and I took out PCP and got a brand new Merc E300DE estate which was a really beautiful car and loved it to bits, however Covid19 dried the work load up and I haven't worked for 2 months now so first thing to go is the car to keep a roof over the family's head! Had to get rid of my R1200GS as well
So anyway, here we are again back in my 3rd A3. Its a 2011 2.0TDI 170 DSG (sorry....STronic!) with 90k miles on it. Its in very good condition considering. Its a Cat N write off due to some damage to the O/S wing however this was repaired by the previous owner who had a garage and you couldn't tell now.
As always with cars this age, there is always something that needs sorting/improving so my little list of things to do are as follows (I've had the car 2 days and already hardwired a dash cam in):
Sorting:
- DSG Oil service (hasn't been done since 54k which may lead onto next point)
- There is a bit of a rattle when pulling away at low revs in 2/3rd gear (around 1200rpm) briefly. It clears quickly as the revs increase, however not sure if its gearbox related or a bit of trim in the engine bay vibrating? (will start another thread on this)
- Rattles!! There are a couple really annoying rattles, one in the centre console area which sounds like something sliding around, and I believe one in the boot lid. My mission over the next week is to take it apart and find the causes
- The parcel shelf has a broken mounting point on it which needs repairing
Improving:
- As I don't really want to change the HU, I am going to run an aux cable from the aux port, under the centre console into the glovebox. I'm also going to put a 12v socket in the glovebox and use one of those iphone 2 into 1 (lightning and headphone into lightning) adapter, then have a little lightning extension lead so just one cable comes out the corner of the glovebox, straight into my phone which will be mounted on a magnetic mount on the passenger side centre air vent. This way I can play DAB radio through my phone, use WAZE for sat nav etc without having the expense of a new HU. Will post some pics up once that's done
- Cruise Control retrofit
- Auto Lights retrofit (although I don't believe I have the mounting points on my windscreen for the necessary rear view mirror)
- Retrofit rear parking sensors - its amazing how much you get used to them!
Think that's enough for now!
Dave
After a brief stint away from Audi (wholey due to the horrendous customer service from Taunton Audi and then reinforced by the horrendous customer service from Audi UK), I find myself back in an A3!
Sob story however, I'm a self employed contractor in the IT world and pre-covid it was all rosey and I took out PCP and got a brand new Merc E300DE estate which was a really beautiful car and loved it to bits, however Covid19 dried the work load up and I haven't worked for 2 months now so first thing to go is the car to keep a roof over the family's head! Had to get rid of my R1200GS as well
So anyway, here we are again back in my 3rd A3. Its a 2011 2.0TDI 170 DSG (sorry....STronic!) with 90k miles on it. Its in very good condition considering. Its a Cat N write off due to some damage to the O/S wing however this was repaired by the previous owner who had a garage and you couldn't tell now.
As always with cars this age, there is always something that needs sorting/improving so my little list of things to do are as follows (I've had the car 2 days and already hardwired a dash cam in):
Sorting:
- DSG Oil service (hasn't been done since 54k which may lead onto next point)
- There is a bit of a rattle when pulling away at low revs in 2/3rd gear (around 1200rpm) briefly. It clears quickly as the revs increase, however not sure if its gearbox related or a bit of trim in the engine bay vibrating? (will start another thread on this)
- Rattles!! There are a couple really annoying rattles, one in the centre console area which sounds like something sliding around, and I believe one in the boot lid. My mission over the next week is to take it apart and find the causes
- The parcel shelf has a broken mounting point on it which needs repairing
Improving:
- As I don't really want to change the HU, I am going to run an aux cable from the aux port, under the centre console into the glovebox. I'm also going to put a 12v socket in the glovebox and use one of those iphone 2 into 1 (lightning and headphone into lightning) adapter, then have a little lightning extension lead so just one cable comes out the corner of the glovebox, straight into my phone which will be mounted on a magnetic mount on the passenger side centre air vent. This way I can play DAB radio through my phone, use WAZE for sat nav etc without having the expense of a new HU. Will post some pics up once that's done
- Cruise Control retrofit
- Auto Lights retrofit (although I don't believe I have the mounting points on my windscreen for the necessary rear view mirror)
- Retrofit rear parking sensors - its amazing how much you get used to them!
Think that's enough for now!
Dave