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24th August 2010, 10:37 PM
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Got me a new S8
Done the deal. Now all I have to do is get myself 120 miles to collect it. Upside: 120 (plus?) miles to get it back home.
Its a D3. Black with a black & white interior. Sad but it's the interior that did it for me. Turned loads of of others down cos they didn't look like a Liquorish Allsort inside. Can't wait. Perhaps I can swing it tomorrow. Will post picts as soon as I can take them. This means my 2002 02 plate S8 is now on the market. She has a lush Ming Blue exterior & grey interior. An untouched and utterly standard example, with bi-xenons, Bose + SD Card player, heated front screen (wait till the winter and this is just amazing). Those who know me and my 8 will attest that I don't clean her. I think I do, but by the standards of everyone else I meet in the club, I clearly don't. She's done 140k and runs as sweet as a ... Liquorish Allsort. Ben at AVP can tell you more about her mechanicals than I can. I hope he doesn't mind me suggesting anyone interested call him. I've had her 18 months, full Audi history then Ben. Only light is occasional air bag, just after dropping a front seat passenger off. Anyway. I'll work up an ad, bung it on AutoTrader and post a link. Meanwhile feel free to give me a call. Oh yes, mustnt forget. very keenly priced at only £6,500. Can't be bad for an original example with squirt (sport) mode and all her books and keys 
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25th August 2010, 11:23 AM
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#4
25th August 2010, 11:54 PM
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What a horrible day to collect a car. Seriously bad spay on the M40/M42. Couldn't see a thing. Not that I was looking out the windows that much. I finally figured how to switch the nav off when I was about half a mile from home. Dur These are a very different beast to our D2's. I'm going to miss mine. The D3 is fast, but floor it and it feels like someone's fitted a bl00dy big magnet that pulls you irresistibly to the horizon. Its quieter, less involving and highlights how much the D2's are more raw and immediate. There's a lot of toys though. The MMI even has its own big fat 300 page handbook. So now I can switch off and on the rear interior lighting, set their climate and loads of other insane stuff. It'll keep me off the streets for months. I am going to miss that D2. You'll laugh but its my favourite motor since I had a 2 door Cortina 2.0 GT in white with a black vinyl roof. That car fitted me, I understood what it was doing and could get it to go. The D2 is the first since to better that And I still love how it looks. And sounds. And goes 
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#5
26th August 2010, 07:23 AM
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Keep them both Nick. If you can afford a D3 S8 then the D2 can be mounted in your lounge to watch TV from!
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Conan (the Librarian) Watch it if you dare Currently, 2000 S8, Merlin Purple, Leather Pack 1, Winter Pack 1, SPAX adjustable suspension, AP Racing 6 pot front caliper, 385mm fully floating disks, EBC Yellow Stuff Pads, Black Diamond grooved rear disks and predetor pads, D2 Doctors Brake Block. 1997 4.2 A8SQ - the Projekt. 12 years and ongoing! 1997 4.2 A8SQ - Ming Blue. Restoration sat waiting; saved from the Scrapyard 2003 C5 Allroad 4.2Q - Cobolt Blue. Towing car. Laid up awaiting manual conversion. 2005 C5 Allroad 2.5TDi FE - Grey - Workhorse. 2015 Q3QS SLine - Daytona Grey. Lots of extras! Long Haired Admirals cutter. Previously 2003 C5 A6 1.9TDI FWD - Loaner from D2 Doctor Lifex 1997 S8 - Ming Blue. Loaned out and written off. I loved that car. My first engine swap after cambelt failure. 1996 4.2 A8SQ - Ming Blue. 178k on a cambelt! Trader's 8. Delivered to A8Parts at Lifex. 2003 2.8 A8SQ - powder blueish. Fill in for a while. Sold on. 1998 1.8T A4 Avant FWD. Ming Blue (there's a theme here), PEX for the 97 S8. And a list of non VAG going back 40 years before I saw the light. 
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#6
26th August 2010, 10:26 PM
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LOL Mike
The thought of keeping had passed through my mind (No, not keeping it in the lounge. It won't fit through the french windows) But the management here at Maison Moi is already giving me sideways looks and muttering things about pensions and gone. Now I've got to find somewhere to drive this weekend. Assuming I can remember how to work it. Need to get it into Bens for a health check too
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