Today I.....

Rusty911 said:
Not today, but yesterday I doubled my A2 fleet. Counting them all up, it seems I now have two.

1.6 FSi, I wouldn't call it a project, but I'll work through it regardless after I've done the recently acquired TT. 160k miles, but mostly the right sort. Not been on the road for a while so needs a re-commission, belts, freeing off of brakes and so on.

No doubt I'll hog some club bandwidth with another thread as I have enjoyed doing the Bale / Break one (itself not quite ended yet).

Given this, like the Devon car, was on here as 'too good to scrap?', it's in a different league as a starting point. Has a lovely feel to it and can't wait to drive it :)

Thank you Russell!
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I think two A2s are a good number :p Looking forward to the thread and lots of pictures.
 
Today I discovered the plant holders.
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Today I was doing a bit of tidying and found a genuine Audi cloth (matches my Akoya silver A2 no less). This is something I picked up at the Birmingham Motor show on the Audi stand in 2000.

At the time I also picked up an Audi A2 CD-ROM (you kids out there won’t know what this is! ?) in a circular aluminium A2 branded CD case but can’t for the life of me find it. Did anyone else attend that Motor Show and pick one of them up?

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@philward Well your plant pot holders are probably worth about the same or even more than you paid for the whole car!!!

@Rusty911 Must say that is one hell of a narrow road with nasty stone walls to reverse a trailer down.
Look forward to the usual casual approach to resuscitating this car.

All the best.
 
Rusty911 said:
Not today, but yesterday I doubled my A2 fleet. Counting them all up, it seems I now have two.

1.6 FSi, I wouldn't call it a project, but I'll work through it regardless after I've done the recently acquired TT. 160k miles, but mostly the right sort. Not been on the road for a while so needs a re-commission, belts, freeing off of brakes and so on.

No doubt I'll hog some club bandwidth with another thread as I have enjoyed doing the Bale / Break one (itself not quite ended yet).

Given this, like the Devon car, was on here as 'too good to scrap?', it's in a different league as a starting point. Has a lovely feel to it and can't wait to drive it.

Thank you Russell :)



Just look at that sky! No editing or enhancements other than any in-camera JPEG trickery. Plates are off the A2 as had a private plate. Russell has very kindly provided brand new plates with the original number which was a bonus.

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Good buy and glad it did find a good new owner. Just seen your piece from last Thursday, you're looking forward to driving it. If you feel the handling is not as good as the 1.4 petrol, it isn't , but you can correct that mostly with a rear antiroll bar.
 
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I'd be very interested to see how you get on with this, how good access to the car is and whether it eats up a lot of workshop space.

I've wondered about one for years now but always thought I'd drill out the concrete floor and recess the lift flush (if possible).
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Yes lets see. I used to have a much bigger tripple garage and a two posts lift. But now I just have a small single garage with very limited height and space. So lets see how this will work out.
 
Today I noticed that the rubber strip around my headlights is crumbling away! The shame!

Is this normal?


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Over the weekend I picked up a set of Mk3 Golf GTI 15" alloy wheels with pretty good tyres (to be inspected) all for £41. I do love Ebay at times. I was really grateful that somewhere on here someone had recommended Ombrello to treat the rear glass and windscreen. Easier to apply than Rain-X but more expensive. Found out that some particularly nasty (or poorly) gulls were going to test how effective the glass treatment was. Yuk!
 
Today I finally tracked down an illusive Pine green Tdi Sport it's a 75bhp, 5 seater with Black leather sports interior, cruise control and Bose, Funnily enough it's exactly the same pine green car that I seen for the very first time that made me fall in love with the colour. I will post some pics once I get it home as the guy needs a few days to get it ready for me ?
 
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depronman said:
Made another batch of fuel drain screw as I was getting down to the 3 I had in stock from the last batch

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Hi Paul,

Not applying to me, petrol, but a general question. How do get 2.5Nm when tightening the drain? I have a max 40 Nm trorque wrench but to be honest I would not trust it at next to nothing. Would finger tight be about right?

Andy
 
Andrew said:
Hi Paul,

Not applying to me, petrol, but a general question. How do get 2.5Nm when tightening the drain? I have a max 40 Nm trorque wrench but to be honest I would not trust it at next to nothing. Would finger tight be about right?

Andy
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Finger tight and then a slight nip with a spanner or better still pop a socket over the hex and turn the socket by hand
The 2.5 nm wa for the plastic screw which is very fragile the aluminium screw is a LOT more robust but 2.5 NM is what Audi state so it’s enough to hold the screw in place but if the aluminium screw to tightened to say 5 or even 10 nm it will do it no harm

Paul


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