Vorsprung durch Technik
A2OC Donor
As one or 2 of you will know we are now the proud owners of this little beauty, a plane was booked from Luton and so the journey began.
So this is my official way of introducing myself now that we own one of these cars. These are the only 2 pics i have for now worth putting up.........one built for fuel economy the other a super quick old school beauty.........
Anyway....... drove the car back down south yesterday on Tescos finest, she was purring along beautifully, setting of from Peniquik near Edinbrough down to Moffat a cracking road to drive on with scenery to die for! Should have stopped to take a few photos but the opportunity didn't really present itself with parking, i do like Scotland it's a beautiful place. As you can imagine i was enjoying the drive in our new A2 just hoping all would go well on the long journey back home to Rickmansworth.
By the time i had got onto the M74 the Windscreen washer level warning light came on after only a couple of clears so i thought ok easily sorted found the next turn off and filled her up. Obviously for me this is a whole new experience just having a little flap for a grill for the light maintenance fill ups. The next 190 miles or so i was still getting used to the car and hoping the rest of the trip would be event free when the engine low level oil warning light came on somewhere above Birmingham. Panic set in not knowing these vehicles so speed reduced to 55mp as i didn't want to do any damage and prayed for a quick exit. After paying extortionate motorway service prices she took 3/4 litre of oil to bring the oil level back up to position A on the dipstick. The rest of the journey went like clockwork thankfully and later on the wife got to try it, she really liked it.
I'm going to service her myself as i don't trust garages, apparently she had a service 1,500 miles ago, hmm did they do a good job? doesn't look like it.........oil warning low level light on and no oil to be seen on the dipstick just the very end of the little plastic indicator. Anyone know what the official oil spec to use on these cars is,mines a 1.4 petrol and how many litres does it take to fill up?
Is there is anywhere on the forum where the under bonnet details are identified showing whats what under there i.e.,where the air filter is etc etc will save me a bit of time locating all the necessaries. I'm also going to do the fuel filter too while i'm at it.
That's it for now,i guess i'm on the look out for those 17" Sport wheels that were snapped from beneath my feet yesterday and some twist interior bits if anyone has i would be interested.
Any help you guys can give will be appreciated and i hope to be a productive helpful member in return.
So this is my official way of introducing myself now that we own one of these cars. These are the only 2 pics i have for now worth putting up.........one built for fuel economy the other a super quick old school beauty.........
Anyway....... drove the car back down south yesterday on Tescos finest, she was purring along beautifully, setting of from Peniquik near Edinbrough down to Moffat a cracking road to drive on with scenery to die for! Should have stopped to take a few photos but the opportunity didn't really present itself with parking, i do like Scotland it's a beautiful place. As you can imagine i was enjoying the drive in our new A2 just hoping all would go well on the long journey back home to Rickmansworth.
By the time i had got onto the M74 the Windscreen washer level warning light came on after only a couple of clears so i thought ok easily sorted found the next turn off and filled her up. Obviously for me this is a whole new experience just having a little flap for a grill for the light maintenance fill ups. The next 190 miles or so i was still getting used to the car and hoping the rest of the trip would be event free when the engine low level oil warning light came on somewhere above Birmingham. Panic set in not knowing these vehicles so speed reduced to 55mp as i didn't want to do any damage and prayed for a quick exit. After paying extortionate motorway service prices she took 3/4 litre of oil to bring the oil level back up to position A on the dipstick. The rest of the journey went like clockwork thankfully and later on the wife got to try it, she really liked it.
I'm going to service her myself as i don't trust garages, apparently she had a service 1,500 miles ago, hmm did they do a good job? doesn't look like it.........oil warning low level light on and no oil to be seen on the dipstick just the very end of the little plastic indicator. Anyone know what the official oil spec to use on these cars is,mines a 1.4 petrol and how many litres does it take to fill up?
Is there is anywhere on the forum where the under bonnet details are identified showing whats what under there i.e.,where the air filter is etc etc will save me a bit of time locating all the necessaries. I'm also going to do the fuel filter too while i'm at it.
That's it for now,i guess i'm on the look out for those 17" Sport wheels that were snapped from beneath my feet yesterday and some twist interior bits if anyone has i would be interested.
Any help you guys can give will be appreciated and i hope to be a productive helpful member in return.
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