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Hi David , great choice! ps. we need pics...

Hi Terry, I've had imports befor eand they were the most reliable cars i have had. Perhaps the two seconds of rattling you heard was just before the oil got all the way round due to the excessive cold?

I’m in Bargoed Gareth and on top of this since I’ve had a tow bar fitted I don’t have any rear fog lights on the car. But when my caravan is plugged in the fogs on the caravan work fine, so I’m thinking that’s a programming issue. Need to get the above fixed asap MOT due April.

Glad you’ve found a solution to get around the problem

Yes.

Jordan. Voltage readings tell you nothing about the condition of the battery. To do that requires either a modern professional tester or the ability to test during a 200 ampere discharge, neither of which are available to most people. Nor does the fact that the battery cranks and starts the engine mean that is in good condition. The electronics on the car require a stable power supply, not just any old voltage between 10 and 16 volts as was the case years ago. A failing battery can not supply that stability, leading to spurious electronic faults that come and go at random. Limp mode, loss of radio presets, loss of air con are some of the faults that can arise. The age of your battery is not as important as its internal condition which can only be tested as mentioned earlier, though a life of five years seems to be all we can expect nowadays. I suggest you buy a new battery of decent quality, not one of the cheap unknown brands, and get it coded to the car to avoid spoiling it. Exide and Varta are two names that come to mind, though other folk in the forum can advise better than me.

Those are common symptoms of a failing battery. Get it professionally tested if you want confirmation, and get the new battery coded to the car.

That’s the clutch that has been in for 2 years and suffered with getting a bath in gearbox oil for 3 months and then cleaned in coke when new seal was fitted so think it done well, regarding coke I drink it so not losing sleep washing my clutch in it

Quick update - Martin at Bolton Car Interiors did a fantastic job, communicated really well and was reasonably priced for what was a unique job which no other garage could do. So indirectly he saved me 000's of pounds. Great place if you ever need any work doing.

Welcome to the forum you'll find the members on here are a friendly and helpful bunch 🙂 sounds a lovely car 👍

Hello Charles, I live in South Wales and take my Audi S7 to R-Tec of Swansea 01792 897575 They have just moved to a new workshop facility in Gorseinon, Swansea and its an impressive set up. They do all Germen cars and high performance vehicles, but they specialise in Audi's. They do get busy and so if you need to book your car in, dont delay too long Regards Chris

Hello Charles, Where abouts in S.Wales? - big area! I have used a small independent west of St. Clears to good effect. Kind regards, Gareth.

Hi why go to ECP there are plenty of offers on eBay which are much cheaper thats where mine all came from and if you do get a new unit please buy a new rubber spindle grommet, they go rock hard and shrink thats where the water gets in. Steve

19th May 2024 We have in the last few months been receiving spam posts on the community. These were not new members, but compromised accounts from members accounts that were set up in the past. However, these were not compromised by our security but from email and password lists bought by spammers to access various accounts across the internet. This is mainly due to users using the same email and password throughout all of their accounts they have. So to iterate that the club has not been compromised / hacked. I have seen this on many forums, blogs, email accounts etc. This even happens on login accounts for companies such as Subway, Costa, Starbucks etc. as well. Many companies now require 2 factor authentication these days to get round this issue. So we have decided to request everyone with accounts that have not logged in for more than 180 days to reset their password. We have not done it for recent regular members yet, however, we will be requiring 2 factor authentication with a question to log in so we can secure your account from spammers posting junk on your behalf. All this is done as a precaution and to prevent annoyance to the community, and of course your security. Thanks

OK sorry for not following up on this for ages. I took it to my local VW garage and they refused to touch it and told me to take it to Audi instead. Replacement was £450-ish, new part was £180. Audi charges £155 A HOUR for labour and they kept the car for two weeks as they found other issues with the braking system which cost another £2k to put right - no thanks to the previous owner who wasn't very careful with it). Not going back there unless absolutely necessary.