DanB

Tonight's fun job. Lent the car to a mate for a few days and he told me the fans weren't working so he had fun deicing it 🙈 Sure enough fans were dead. Checked fuse all OK, then set about checking the fan. Glovebox out, fan out. Was a bit stiff so spun by hand and lubed, refitted and boom, all working 👍🏻 Went to shut the bonnet happy with myself and it won't close, just bounces on the latch. Sake

The loss of interest is through never using it. My sister will be moving back shortly I think so it'll be back on daily duties for her

Realised the rear passenger window had dropped when driving the car and heard the noise. Alarm was only going off in bad weather. Removed the air freshener after reading these sometimes set car alarms off, alarm stopped going off. Got window sorted and alarm never gone off since

Only remembered this thread after getting an e-mail ping for someone replying to an old post 😄 Started a new job in Feb with a company car so the A3 is only being used by my mum to ferry daughter around a couple of days a week. Replaced the starter motor and fitted a bigger battery to cure the hot start issue. Rear wiper still not working, probs should get the motor replaced Glovebox still broken, probs should get the hinge replaced Trim still peeling, probs should paint/wrap to tidy them up Rear light got a bit of water inside, probs should replace/upgrade for facelift lights Is it obvious I've lost interest? Do still love driving it when I get the chance though. May become surplus to requirements soon, but may still keep hold of it and sort some bits out

It turned out the back window reg had failed so the window was ever so slightly down, meaning a draft was getting in and disturbing the air freshener round the mirror, which then set the motion sensors off 🙈

Finally have 4 fully working windows Rear wiper seems to have totally packed in now. Started coming on and off whenever it felt like it, then went through a phase where I could hear the motor working with no arm movement before fully giving up the ghost. But I've spent enough on it for now so that can wait 🤣

Having hacked round in this for 3 months, it was needing a clean Starting a new job shortly that comes with a car which will slow down progress on this I imagine. More a case of upgrade stuff as and when it breaks 🤣

Hi All Got the Audi Navigation stereo with 6 disc changer in the glovebox. 6 disc changer accepts disks but can't get them to play through the stereo. Any ideas? Plays a CD fine if inserted in the top of the stereo

Ordered a new rear passenger window reg to replace the broken one and also ordered a new driver door window reg as the anti pinch whatever is a bit iffy where its obviously gunked up inside so thinks something is stuck in the window when trying to go up on one click. Once they're sorted, I'm still left with Broken glovebox hinge Saggy rear wiper Flaky trim Meh floormats Then while I'm not planning on "modifying" it as such, hopefully get round to: LED interior bulbs Remap Stereo upgrade, probs just to the Audi Navigation Plus for OEM look

Basically like a treasure hunt. You're given a list of say 50 grid references, all scoring a different number of points and some only being available at certain times. You then plan which points you're going to go for in the permitted time to score as many points as possible and get back to the finish on time. Basically, ragging it round the Manx roads in the middle of the night and then having pie and chips in a pub 🤣

Another problem Rear passenger window now doesn't want to go up. Suspect regulator or something is gunked up and when I pulled the window back up by hand, it's covered in gunge 🙈 On a positive note, used the car for a my first ever scatter rally last weekend and didn't come last! Were the only crew there without a cage or a sump guard or spot lights, but I bet nobody else had heated seats and rear isofix 🤣

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Armrest clip arrived from China Half way through trying to fit it, started to wish I'd just bought the complete armrest 😂 Eventually got it in and back in the car. Can understand why these are a common issue as they just feel flimsy.

Yep checked all the wires for corrosion and was pretty much nothing to see. I'll see how battery comes on and it it's still iffy try a new one

Evening My alarm keeps going off (seemingly, only at night) and I'm struggling to find help on the cause. I've previously had the issue with the rear washer jet hose popping off, giving me the boot open warning and the hazards not flashing when trying to lock the car which I sorted. However, this time everything in the boot is dry, the pipe isn't leaking, I'm getting no warning about the boot being open and the hazards flash when I lock it but its started. I did find a couple of threads about it being caused by the battery starting to die but they all get hijacked by people talking about water in the boot 🤣 Battery reading between 13.6-13.8v when I'd expect it to be low 14s, so I've put it on my reconditioner overnight to see if I can get it up to where it should be, but if this doesn't work, what else could it be?