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Ladies and Gentlemen. My 1992 Audi Cabriolet was rear ended and written off. After 4 months, the third party insurers do not seem interested in collecting the car as salvage. I have offered them until the end of July to collect the car. Failing this, I intend giving the car away, FREE, for spares. Good condition / engine / manual five speed box / interior / hood / full tank of Shell VPower ! Would anyone be interested if insurers fail to collect it ? Car garaged on Liphook, Hampshire Whatsapp : 00 971 50 3126658

Smashing write up, as always.🤙

Well done - missed the convertible bit!!

Huge one 😆

Thanks for the link for the correct clips, I still have to install puddle lights and at least have everything for the job.

Thanks for the reply steve, i will post some pictures on sunday as im working away in Coventry this week.

Jdragon… A truncated summary is that it turns out ‘up to 18,600 miles or two years, whichever comes sooner’ actually means ‘from 9,300 miles and 1 year’ and is typically 15,000 miles and 18 months…. And that dealership sales staff have widely been missing out the ‘up to’ part, or just totally giving out wrong information. It means that.. 1) People may be paying around £400+ more for servicing than they expected over a typical period of ownership 2) People may, or may not, have bought service plans, maintenance packs and other finance products based on misleading or inaccurate service regime information 3) People may, as I was, have been misled into thinking their car only needed to be serviced every two years (or 18,000 miles) and have taken that information into account when deciding what term / length of finance to have. In my own case, I was expecting to service the car once in three years, and therefore took a three year lease rather than a two year lease (I’d always previously had two year leases where a car required annual servicing), and I didn’t opt for inclusive servicing thinking it seemed poor value.. not knowing the car would actually need servicing three times in three years, not once. In fact, had I have known, because my decision to have the A5 was such a closely run thing, it’s almost certain I’d have had a VW Arteon over two years, saving money on the lease and being in a position to swap the car a year earlier. The big issue for me though, or the really big issue for me, is that for months Audi swore blind their description was entirely accurate and that it wasn’t being misquoted or misunderstood by anyone else other than me… until I rang the 28 Audi dealerships, found that literally not one provided correct information, and explained that I was happy to supply the call recordings to regulators, ombudsman etc.

Someone help me out here please. Is the issue potentially having to spend an extra £400 over a 3 year period? Or any fallout from the car not being serviced according to the recommended schedule?

I'e always done my own car maintainance, but gone are the days when all you had to do to get a car going was to adjust the points and change the plugs. Canbus systems baffle me. I was just looking at this mirror folding thingy and wondering if I could tackle it. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174314357676

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