3dB
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Well.. It's not actually mine, It's my girlfriends car, but as I do all the work to car, so here's the car... 
In picture new A2 with my own Audi 80 B4 the day we bought it.
When my GF said, she wanted an A2, I was skeptical at first. When I saw an A2 for a first time on road, I actually laughed - what, an Audi made by japaneese people (because it's relatively thin and high, as are cars in Japan)? But one day I got to check one out, and my opinion changed, I saw an well thought out, well designed car with aluminum chassis, that wont rust ever, glass roof was and icing on a cake.
So we sought for a good diesel A2 (for long runs and fuel economy), with an Opensky or Brokensky, as even If you keep it shut all the time, it's nice to see sky above you, and with max features available in market. In Latvia there is surprisingly small market for these cars, as I presume, a lot of good ones is on the road with their happy owners, and not so good ones are in small number for sale. Checked few ones expensive with various issues on car parks, resellers etc, but with perfect leather interiors. Then found one relatively far away from me, that was cheaper, did a VCDS scan, test drove and bought it. It was working, but not perfect, was a bit loud and would not pull as I expected. As it was on the low side of market prices, I thought to fix er up would be cheaper, than to find a unicorn - a good, perfect working one.
Owner had imported it from Lithuania (as there are bigger car market), probably it came originally from Germany (german MOT sticker on front window). It's 2002, 182000km, AMF 1.4TDi PD engine, has Opensky, that (as per previous owner) opens but crackles, haven't checked that out yet, full DIS in instrument cluster, that fades a bit, when get's warm, wroking climate control (AC working too), working front seat heating, gray interiour, cloth seats with lumbar regulators (leather swap wanted), winter pack (heated windscreen washer nozzles, heated side mirrors, working webasto aux heater), false floor in boot compartment, working parking sensors in rear. Body had few small scraches that are normal for this age of car.
Previous owner had gone for timing belt change in some garage, that screwed this job up. Then next garage reworked cylinder head with fresh valves etc, so car has also fresh timing belt, fresh tensioners, rollers and water pump and fresh major oil seals, so no oil leaks on car. When I did my VCDS tests after buying car, it had low boost, hence this thread on forum. In short, no boost leaks, good N75, bad small vacuum hoses, no pre-loaded tension on wastegate actuator, badly adjusted torsion value, good catalityc converter, but bad injectors. After a fix car runs great now.
As I love to give more extras for my car, I started sourcing for some to this one too... What is already done, is changed worn climate control buttons, for A4 ones, as worn ones looked just dreadful.
When sorted the engine out, did an DIY EGR block off - stainless sheet metal between two gaskets.
Sourced a airbag with internal electronics for multi function steering wheel, cruise control switch, an anti dazzle automatic mirror from B6, so that's comes next - to retrofit these in, when I will got a free time to do this.
Got also all 4 window lifters for car, but donor's door cards is in that creamy color, that wont go with the existing interiour at all and will look awful with silver car, so need gray rear door cards to do those.
That's all for now, hopefully this was not a too booring read, more photos will come later.
In picture new A2 with my own Audi 80 B4 the day we bought it.When my GF said, she wanted an A2, I was skeptical at first. When I saw an A2 for a first time on road, I actually laughed - what, an Audi made by japaneese people (because it's relatively thin and high, as are cars in Japan)?
But one day I got to check one out, and my opinion changed, I saw an well thought out, well designed car with aluminum chassis, that wont rust ever, glass roof was and icing on a cake.So we sought for a good diesel A2 (for long runs and fuel economy), with an Opensky or Brokensky, as even If you keep it shut all the time, it's nice to see sky above you, and with max features available in market. In Latvia there is surprisingly small market for these cars, as I presume, a lot of good ones is on the road with their happy owners, and not so good ones are in small number for sale. Checked few ones expensive with various issues on car parks, resellers etc, but with perfect leather interiors. Then found one relatively far away from me, that was cheaper, did a VCDS scan, test drove and bought it. It was working, but not perfect, was a bit loud and would not pull as I expected. As it was on the low side of market prices, I thought to fix er up would be cheaper, than to find a unicorn - a good, perfect working one.
Owner had imported it from Lithuania (as there are bigger car market), probably it came originally from Germany (german MOT sticker on front window). It's 2002, 182000km, AMF 1.4TDi PD engine, has Opensky, that (as per previous owner) opens but crackles, haven't checked that out yet, full DIS in instrument cluster, that fades a bit, when get's warm, wroking climate control (AC working too), working front seat heating, gray interiour, cloth seats with lumbar regulators (leather swap wanted), winter pack (heated windscreen washer nozzles, heated side mirrors, working webasto aux heater), false floor in boot compartment, working parking sensors in rear. Body had few small scraches that are normal for this age of car.
Previous owner had gone for timing belt change in some garage, that screwed this job up. Then next garage reworked cylinder head with fresh valves etc, so car has also fresh timing belt, fresh tensioners, rollers and water pump and fresh major oil seals, so no oil leaks on car. When I did my VCDS tests after buying car, it had low boost, hence this thread on forum. In short, no boost leaks, good N75, bad small vacuum hoses, no pre-loaded tension on wastegate actuator, badly adjusted torsion value, good catalityc converter, but bad injectors. After a fix car runs great now.
As I love to give more extras for my car, I started sourcing for some to this one too... What is already done, is changed worn climate control buttons, for A4 ones, as worn ones looked just dreadful.
When sorted the engine out, did an DIY EGR block off - stainless sheet metal between two gaskets.
Sourced a airbag with internal electronics for multi function steering wheel, cruise control switch, an anti dazzle automatic mirror from B6, so that's comes next - to retrofit these in, when I will got a free time to do this.
Got also all 4 window lifters for car, but donor's door cards is in that creamy color, that wont go with the existing interiour at all and will look awful with silver car, so need gray rear door cards to do those.
That's all for now, hopefully this was not a too booring read, more photos will come later.
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