I will try and show restraint in relation to this..... eBay link to that German one
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Erlingtheyounger
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There are tow bars available which come up on here from time to time @RZX sold one recently but I can’t remember the brand. I think these are available new still.
There are also Audi roof bars out there which work fine but fairly rare.
Lots of options on the audio front. Personally I like the look of the RNSE set up which @2work mentions and have it fitted my car but tend to use Google maps most of the time. I’ve been using a dab pure adapter but think I’m going to switch to streaming instead over the coming months.
There are also Audi roof bars out there which work fine but fairly rare.
Lots of options on the audio front. Personally I like the look of the RNSE set up which @2work mentions and have it fitted my car but tend to use Google maps most of the time. I’ve been using a dab pure adapter but think I’m going to switch to streaming instead over the coming months.
Proghound
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The roof bars do come up on eBay from time to time but people seem to know how in demand and rare they are, and they are priced accordingly. For the tow bar, sadly even more so. It's probably easiest to find an A2 for sale that has one, from someone who doesn't know their rarity, buy the whole car and remove the tow bar.
Erlingtheyounger
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That’s the one!
Good Afternoon,There's a suspicion that this not being a thing in the car is a reason why it's so full of rage when the battery is connected.
It appears that once the stereo was full of coinage, possibly, small fingers turned their attention to other things....
It may be nothing but the little switch picture looks to me for LHD. Our RHD A2s have a switch with part number ending in 'A'. You can use a LHD switch but it will be upside down. The RHD switch is NLA from Audi but available at Audi Tradition.
Andy
Welcome Ant, I'm disappointed-I thought that I had bought the cheapest UK A2 at £400!Hi.
There's a back story to how I've got here (isn't there for everyone?) but from a 2003 V8 MG estate I found myself in a 2018 Kia Soul EV and now I'm having a further change. The yellow car in the photo is my new summer transport and the cheapest A2 in the country has been bought for winter and autumn. It's currently getting its first MoT in a couple of years and then it'll be pulled into service for carrying the kids and their bikes etc.
I may have a few questions about the A2, so I just thought I'd introduce myself and say hello first.
Ant
£475? Still hold the record for cheapest UK A2 then, although I've spent near to 2K to get it roadworthy......still worth the journey.The head unit is long gone, there's some sort of 7" x 2" Sony thing in there. And the glove compartment falls to pieces when you open it. Overall though, it's pretty neat. It was for sale at £475, so I reckon I did pretty well ?
That’s good to know, I’ll order one from them when they reopen (seems they’re closed for Christmas at the moment) otherwise I’m sure it being upside down will bug me ?
Indeed, £400 definitely beats my buy, it was the cheapest on autotrader when I bought and I think the cheapest in the UK at the time that wasn’t a wreck that looked at risk of catching on fire.
The cheapest I’ve heard about is the one Jonny Smith avoided buying as he and Richard Porter recorded the Sniff and Smith podcast earlier this year. That was £390 off of eBay as I recall.
Is it possible mine’s the cheapest, viable five seater that’s gone up for sale?
RHD part also available from eBay, just £15 more (obvs) so have ordered and cancelled the other one. Thank you for pointing it out ??
Unfortunately unless things have changed, since Brexit you will find Audi Tradition will not trade with the UK. If you have friends or family in the EU you could get them to buy it and posted to them and then posted on to you but this would incur an extra postage cost. Alternatively there is a new one currently on ebay, but a tad expensive,
Andy
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Tom @2work bought one for £250 last year all legal and in a lot better condition than the price would suggest. I'm sure he'd be the first to admit it's since several times its purchase price lavished upon it in maintenance and upgrades.
If I remember right, Steve @Cenick also had a really inexpensive pine green TDI a while back.
Having watched prices over the years, is it the case that they've already reached the dip of being old runabouts and are now heading up as "appreciating classics"?
I worry it might be the one I've just purchased....?
Attachments
That's okay, the part number ends in 'A' and in the picture the switch bends in at the boot end of the little car icon which is correct.
Andy
Proghound
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I don't think there's any doubt of the A2's rising status, I'd say the question is more like is that going to be more within cult or mainstream classic circles. The ones with good provenance and/or low mileage and/or lots of desirable options have been asking some strong money but taking a while to sell. Those at the other end of the market are probably now starting to rise, some of it because prices for everything seem to be going up these days but also with the increased interest in them. Dealers of course always have tended to try it on as hard as they can but especially if there's the slightest whiff of desirability about the car
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£50 on a switch that's the correct way around is better than £35, then £50 to correct my mistake on a car that may have only cost nearly £500, but which is completely unusable without one or other of the switches. The £50 is a price I'm happy to pay. And it looks like it'll be here a week before the other (wrong) one.
Proghound
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Are you sure the switch is the issue? It's certainly not going to hurt to have one, but if the alarm is going off randomly I'd look at the siren unit or the CCCU. But the first thing I'd do is get it scanned with VCDS to see if the car can tell you anything about the problem.