Hi folks, newbie to the forums here.
Picked up a late 2009 a3 sportback ( 5dr) 1.8tfsi in ibis white at the weekend. 75k, decent history, clean ( with the exception of black 'viper' stripes !!)
THINK i got it pretty cheap, paid 6520 after some discount due to the spec being wrongly advertised. It has bose, full leather, and a few cosmetic bits, splitter/tints etc.
day 1 : after the usual test drive, paying etc, i drove around a bit with the wife, then dropped her off. We bought the car 500 miles away from home, and were staying with family.
Took it for a decent drive, some long pulls in 3rd from low rpms to 6.5k. 2nd run it dropped a cylinder.....
Drove it very carefully back to the house, plugged it in to a cheapo code reader, fault shown as cyl 1 misfire. Swapped coil 1 onto cyl 2, reset code, misfire then on cyl 2.
Euro car parts - new coil ( i bought 2 just in case) Instant fix. Now pulls absoloutly FINE, drove 500 miles home without missing a beat. PHEW !!! and 42.5mpg too !!!! Normally i would have gone straight back to the indy i bought it from, but was very short on time, and couldn't be bothered waiting around. i figured if i fixed it quickly, then so be it !!!
My only worry now is : i found a receipt that was hidden away in the service pack : 1 timing case, 1 bottom pulley....1 timing chain, 2 'sealants' and a inlet valve. Its clearly snapped/slipped the chain at some point. I had heard about that being an issue, but didn't know this one had been done previously.
Waiting for the last main dealer that worked on it to confirm who did the work - Should i be overly concerned. Bit worrying that the head has been off, but i guess as long as the work was done properly then its fine ?
Off to have a look round here, quite a few things i want to do to it in the first instance, mainly lights and a few bits of body needing wrapped.
Picked up a late 2009 a3 sportback ( 5dr) 1.8tfsi in ibis white at the weekend. 75k, decent history, clean ( with the exception of black 'viper' stripes !!)
THINK i got it pretty cheap, paid 6520 after some discount due to the spec being wrongly advertised. It has bose, full leather, and a few cosmetic bits, splitter/tints etc.
day 1 : after the usual test drive, paying etc, i drove around a bit with the wife, then dropped her off. We bought the car 500 miles away from home, and were staying with family.
Took it for a decent drive, some long pulls in 3rd from low rpms to 6.5k. 2nd run it dropped a cylinder.....
Drove it very carefully back to the house, plugged it in to a cheapo code reader, fault shown as cyl 1 misfire. Swapped coil 1 onto cyl 2, reset code, misfire then on cyl 2.
Euro car parts - new coil ( i bought 2 just in case) Instant fix. Now pulls absoloutly FINE, drove 500 miles home without missing a beat. PHEW !!! and 42.5mpg too !!!! Normally i would have gone straight back to the indy i bought it from, but was very short on time, and couldn't be bothered waiting around. i figured if i fixed it quickly, then so be it !!!
My only worry now is : i found a receipt that was hidden away in the service pack : 1 timing case, 1 bottom pulley....1 timing chain, 2 'sealants' and a inlet valve. Its clearly snapped/slipped the chain at some point. I had heard about that being an issue, but didn't know this one had been done previously.
Waiting for the last main dealer that worked on it to confirm who did the work - Should i be overly concerned. Bit worrying that the head has been off, but i guess as long as the work was done properly then its fine ?
Off to have a look round here, quite a few things i want to do to it in the first instance, mainly lights and a few bits of body needing wrapped.
