My A8 replacement
 

Always wanted one from when I first saw one, but with kids and stuff, it never happened.
Now the proud owner of a 1 owner 65k miles with FASH :)

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Cheers

Nice... You changing career too? :P

Was waiting for that :ROFL:

looks in nice nick Andy, good luck with it+++


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:ROFL:

Awww…she's rather cute (it is a "she", presumably?). Seriously though, that's nice, much better in black than any other colour...;)

I've always been tempted by one myself. Very nice. How is it to drive?

225 BAM engine I presume? So effortless (had a Leon Cupra R 225 back in 2005)

A stainless exhaust and a light map with supporting mods will see 300bhp, should that be your cup of tea

Very nice, i honestly think they look superb (need the RS4 style 18s) despite the clichéd hairdresser comments that they always attract. I just sold one of these after i rebuilt much of the car (specifically head / new turbo being the majors) and with a remap of 265 ish felt a fair bit quicker than my old S8 FE and with new O2 sensors returned around 31 MPG !!

The chap who bought it drove 4 hours home and called me on arrival to tell me about his smile and what a great car 'i had built' (not quite!) which i was very proud of - the rare moment when the buyer returns home and feels quids in to :)

It does look in good nick.. Always fancied picking up a 225 that needed some work and turning it into a weekend/track car.. then I went an bought a new car, so that's on hold again :)

Just needs some lowering springs and spacers 15mm front and 20mm rear is the best width. (get Delta MICs).

Can never remember how to maximise the photos on this forum..

Cheers all.

Drives really well (sprightly off the line and when in top at 70 on the motorway and put your foot down, shifts very well).

First mod is internal - bought an X-Carlink unit which will give me USB/SD/iPOD and Bluetooth using the original head unit (oh, it's Bose amps as well)!

Will be looking at lowering and spacers next. It is the BAM engine and feels really torquey, but sometime in the future will look at engine mods.
This weekend will be the X-Carlink and good wash and polish plus double check everything (so up in the air, wheels off and check everything over.

Cheers

Looks really original and tidy Andy, I prefer the original design to the newer one too, it was so close to the original concept car +++

looks good andy, you should have told me though , im sure i have one of those in my boot

During my last post i was actually trying to upload a photo of my old one but long story short my MAC failed and back up, lost the lot, so if anyone is any good at data recover please get in touch. HDD had a knock..

Back to your car, they are night and day after a remap which makes it another beast altogether. There is a chap called Wak over on the TT forum who mapped mine many moons ago and has done other members to good effect and price. Look him up if you want on the TTOC forum. Good place to be.

Cheers and I have seen a few posts by WAK so will bear in mind.
Regarding your Mac, I can't help so soz.

Got the XCarlink fitted - the hardest part for me was getting the HU back in as the new cables are all on the shallowest side so hard to push in, but eventually managed to do it :)

No pics of the process but pics of the end result (just got to feed the BT microphone cable but the wife wanted to use the car so had to stop):

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Can fed the iPod/iPhone cable into the glove box - again not difficult:

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Works a treat so very pleased :P

Cheers

:ROFL::ROFL:

Beat me to it

Nice car Andy, my SIL is onto her second, if I wasn't so lanky I'd consider one myself

How small inside are they? I'm 6'4" and had hoped to one day have one, as a bit of fun...

You'd better get the convertible then lol +++

:ROFL:

I'm 6' 7" but it's not so much the headroom that's the problem, it's the contortions to get in and out

Garage that I bought it from, the owner was over 6 ft and 17 stone and he got in and out OK (and he was recovering from a broken foot too).
Rear seats are a joke for any one over 4 ft though but good for storage..

Cheers

I've sat in the back of one, funnily enough. Was a no go. Even worse than when I tried to sit in the rear of a Ford Puma!!!

Nice car
 

Nice car Andy. Glad you are happy.....funnily enough this is what i was looking at for the summer....maybe next year now....

Cheers Ranj. How you getting on with the D3?

Nothing major today - gave the car its first wash under my ownership and plenty of scratches and minor imperfections to deal with over time but scrubbed up OK.
Went over with a clay bar then followed with a polish (some cheap stuff I have in the garage as I have run out of the good stuff) and looking better.
Think next time I will go over it with the DA and get rid of the swirls in the paint.
Oh - and took all the plastic out of the engine bay and gave it a good scrub - looks miles better :)

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Cheers

Nice work fella

Thanks John :)

looking good
 

Looking good andy.

I m loving the D3 andy....took it down to london yesterday....it was a dream to drive.....i changed the blower motor....things have improved....but still needs investigating......i have new boot lock coming n have arranged for a new kessi to be fitted thursday.....so in a week or so should be good as new.....seriously thank u....really loving the d3

Thanks and great news on the D3 front - Enjoy :)

Next mod carried out - 15 mm spacers up front and 20 mm spacers on the rear.

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Lowering will be next+++

Cheers

Whoops :(

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how did you manage that

Yesterday morning, on my way to work was behind a moped rider.
Both stopped as a round-about. Thought she had moved off and hadn't :-(

She was OK but moped rear end was none existent.

Mine goes in on Monday so see what they reckon.

Good job you wernt in the 8.

True

Hope the scooter was red and that's not blood on the numberplate... :-(

No blood involved.............:rolleyes:

I'd be whacking a used black bumper on that if it was mine. New plate. Boom.

Looks better than it is to be honest.
Further nosing around and I can see superficial damage to the radiator and also some structure behind the bumper.
Plus, with today's craze for people who have been in an accident to follow up later with other claims for injury, I decided that I would be daft not going through my insurance.

That's a shame. Fully understand what you're saying though. Hope it all gets sorted without too much drama.