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I couldn’t believe have simple it was to fit only took a couple of minutes.

Yeah, I've seen the one from states, but as you say it's over-priced even without shipping and potential customs. My only desire for this is to see the oil condition, but I suppose that can wait until the end of year when I do the interim oil change at around 9k miles.

Hi tyre noise varies according to the type of road surface you are driving on yesterday I drove round the M25 on the Gatwick side and it sounded like hell until I got to the Heathrow side and it was all quite again because thats all been resurfaced with Tarmac and the Gatwick side is milled concrete. Steve.

Hello Granit, Please excuse me if I’ve got this all wrong, but it looks to me that you are focussing on your discontents with the car ( possibly compared with the old one) rather than enjoying what is better with it. It don’t wish to be critical, but things like fuel consumption are now rather more what-you-have-is-what-you’ve- got, and it would seem that your car is about typical, give or take road conditions and driving style, so is it really worth worrying about too much in the overall expenditure to buy the car? I’m sure you will appreciate that road noise from tyres can vary considerably, and yes, there could be something wrong with the car, but chances are there isn’t. Not sure what changing brake discs was likely to do to alter this, but OK.. I think it might be worth trying to sit back and enjoy the car Granit, but if you can’t then this could cost in terms of exchanging it for something more suitable. Tyre makes and remaining tread? Is your car a Sportback? Kind regards, Gareth.

Tyre noise isn't normally a reason to change tyres - different makes of tyres on different road surfaces will produce different noise levels. My car is a convertible, so I can hear external noises all the time - maybe yours is missing some soundproofing in the cabin? If your tyres have decent tread depth across their whole width, and there's no damage to the sidewalls, they should be OK. Sounds like your fuel consumption is pretty similar to mine, so maybe you don't have a problem there...

I had the start of similar in my A4 B8 diesel manual gearbox at around 140k miles. The garage I take my cars to poured a bottle of Slick 50 in there and the noise went away, and didn't return. I sold it at 243k miles and still no issues. Worth a try.

Had my £19.99 part from ebay in for 4 weeks now and so far so good.

Bare in mind if you change the cluster and do t get it coded it'll disable the car as it'll active the immobiliser

If it helps, my 2017 A3 is similar to yours, except it's an automatic cabriolet, and I've had it from new. It's rarely used for long journeys, it's set to Comfort mode, and it's used on mainly rural roads. Overall fuel consumption shows up as 47.2 mpg, which I believe equates to just below 6 litres per 100km. I'm not suggesting that you should be expecting identical consumption figures, but I thought the comparison might be useful.

That's great to hear 😊

Hi it would require a lot of cutting and probably coding to fit, get your existing dash repaired, try ECU Testing, believe me there is no cheap fix for your problem even if you get a second hand unit it will require coding to the car. Steve.

Many thanks Gareth. Rgds, Frankie