As noted elsewhere I've just invested in an A3 2.0 TFSI. Its an 09 plate and covered 58k and there's inevitable a few small niggles. I've just ordered a replacement sun visor clip as the passenger side was broken @ 12 quid from stoke audi, which seemed reasonable until they loaded it a four and half quid delivery charge! For a piece weighing about 1 gram. Not so good.
I'm also bothered by the drivers side aluminium door trim which is all scratched up. I can see you can just pop it off so I figured the simplest option is a replacement. I've heard (ok, I've not called yet to check so I could be wrong) that these are in the order of £70-80 from Audi themselves which if true is astonishingly expensive for a trim piece - that's up in Porsche territory.
Are there any other place to get order parts from or is Audi my best bet? I guess i'm looking at specialist Audi breakers or fleabay outlets. I've searched the latter and not come across anything, as yet but I realise it may be a case of watch and wait. Just wondering what the well-known options are. On my other cars there's a couple of well know sources for good parts other than manufacturers, wondering if Audi has the same secondary markets.
cheers,
Mike
I'm also bothered by the drivers side aluminium door trim which is all scratched up. I can see you can just pop it off so I figured the simplest option is a replacement. I've heard (ok, I've not called yet to check so I could be wrong) that these are in the order of £70-80 from Audi themselves which if true is astonishingly expensive for a trim piece - that's up in Porsche territory.
Are there any other place to get order parts from or is Audi my best bet? I guess i'm looking at specialist Audi breakers or fleabay outlets. I've searched the latter and not come across anything, as yet but I realise it may be a case of watch and wait. Just wondering what the well-known options are. On my other cars there's a couple of well know sources for good parts other than manufacturers, wondering if Audi has the same secondary markets.
cheers,
Mike