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Nope, very much tongue in cheek - obviously I didn't add enough emoticons to the post :-) Sadly, the people who do drive like that won't be the people reading forums such as this. Maybe we need 'revalidation tests' every few years like we have in aviation - it does seem strange that you can...

There's an 'inside' lane? Why does nobody ever tell me these things ;-) Actually I can live with 70mph convoys - at least they are moving. The ones which drive me up the wall are HGVs on dual carriageways 'overtaking' each other at a closing speed of half a mile an hour.

If you have cruise control, does it do it with the human taken out of the loop? Either way I'd get them to do a diagnostic on it, the 1.4COD engines are known for their smoothness.

The actual voyage takes around 35 hours, but of course there's the loading, unloading and transport on to NI to add to that.

Some sort of syntax error, it's expecting a string of data and is getting an End Of File (EOF) marker instead. It could be that the Stage 3 process was tested on a data set which contained more than the amount of data you currently have available. Here are the first few items in my data block...

For the spreadsheet - Order Status 39 - 11 Mar

Really we could do with a 'sticky' on this thread: Errors and omissions gratefully accepted! Here's a suggested format: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Step 1 [Once you have successfully...

Brief update for the spreadsheet: Model A3 Status 22 26 Feb Status 38 09 Mar All dates are derived from when the 'normal' update page reflected the changes.

Seems like some dealers pre-book production slots - or have slots from cancelled orders. I ordered in early Feb 16, but the order date is 5th Dec last year

Doh - good plan, why didn't I think of that? :shrug:

Bit of a long shot, but does anyone know which port the Marriot Group uses (Bury St Edmunds, Kings Lynn & Ipswich)?

In my case, about 2 weeks - see #910 for specifics. Edit - Sorry, misread the question - In my case, 2 weeks in production and left the factory as soon as it completed QC.

I could very well have been - although I do recall reading somewhere on the forum that dealers may book production slots in anticipation of future orders. Who knows :-)

Perhaps I should also have mentioned that the order date on the tracker shows as 05 Dec last year, so presumably the dealer had speculatively booked an order slot back then. I'm also wondering if Audi produce a certain number of standard cars and then use 'Quality Control' to add the simpler...

A little more recently: 02 Feb - Deposit paid 03 Feb - Message from dealer to confirm spec 04 Feb - Order corrected 09 Feb - Car appeared on the tracker - build date of 29 Feb 17 Feb - E-mail from Audi UK - build date now 07 Mar 19 Feb - E-mail form Audi UK - build date of 07 Mar confirmed 20...

'you're better off paying for the parts to be resprayed' that's exactly what I was thinking, you can get a lot of respraying done for a couple of grand!

I'm waiting for a new A3 to be delivered in April so I put the same question to a guy who runs his own bodyshop. He reckoned that the various paint protection schemes were just a money making excercise for the dealers, in other words just another form of 'up-selling'. Given that he had saved me...

The way I see it, they aren't going to do anything drastic with the facelift model. It'll still be the MQB platform, it'll still be the same range of engines; which leaves consmetic fiddling, suspension tweaking, maybe a better pop-up screen, perhaps a bit more internal tinsel. Personally, I'd...

By way of a baseline, in early Feb I ordered an A3 Sportback sport in Ibis white, 1.4TSi COD automatic and added cruise control & folding mirrors through Drive the Deal. The discount against manufacturer's OTR price come to 12.49%. If anyone finds a better deal - please don't tell me :readit:

Brilliant, exactly what I needed - thanks for going to the trouble of grabbing a photo too! The car isn't due until April, so I thought I'd kill time by leafing through the idiot's guide - thanks again :hi: