Well it was good to see everyone and the god of weather was kind to us too.
We had 13 No. A8/S8's turn up and 1 No. RS6 (hello Amar!) and it included a good mix of D2 PF and FL (including Botang's Supercharged PF! :D) and quite a few D3's also. Great to meet up with a few new faces at their first meets and people came from as far as Bolton, Harrogate and Bradford to the meet which is very much appreciated. The food at the pub was excellent as always and they seemed quite interested in what cars we had out in the car park too!
I gave everyone a taster/update on the proposed annual meet for 2015 and I will post this as a new thread shortly for everyone else.

For picture lovers, here are the pics I snapped earlier - enjoy!

Wow!!!!
What a wonderful reception.
A really big thank you to all of you for being there.
Especially Neil for organising it.
Roll on May and Snowdonia:D
We have just arrived home in Wigan, the return drive was horrendous, worse than any normal Friday.
Have A Happy and Prosperous New Year.

Great pics! :)

Same here. The M6 was at crawling pace pretty much the entire way. Finally got home about an hour ago.

Thanks everyone! Great to meet you all! :)

Here are some of mine

And here are the rest.
My apolgies, due to age I have already lost the relationships between names, cars and everything else new that I learnt today.
I do of course remember the name Brenda that appeared during one conversation but I think I had better leave that stone unturned.;)

Great pics gents +++

Wish I could've made it today, but just too tired after drive home yesterday from Gloucester in the dark!

Was Ian trying to prise Amar's RS out of him by any chance lol

Ha ha, nice to meet you and Craig today Ray (Sorry, Brenda).

Great to meet you all folks. I was made very welcome for my first meet (although I did meet Amar there at an AudiSRS gathering 5 years ago).

Looks like a great get together, and a good turnout - wish I could have made it, but by the time I could've left, I would have arrived after lunch...:(

It would have been nice to see another Ebony Black FE D2 at this event: at least there are more pictures of it now..+++. That light cream interior (nor sure who's car??) also looks nice. Roll on the summer event..:)

Really sorry I didn't get there. :-(
In retrospect I could have, but the family screwed me over big time, then changed their plans at the last minute, too late for me..... :angry2:

Similar story here…but family comes first, especially @ Christmas, even though it would be nice if they could be a bit more predictable sometimes..:(

I'm not sure age is necessarily to blame. Certainly in my case I've never been good at remembering names and faces. I often have to meet people half a dozen times before I remember who they are! Despite my attempts to meet and speak to everyone yesterday, I still don't really know who's who or which car they own. http://i.imgur.com/K0FhRwC.gif

In fact, I'm sure I probably missed speaking to or saying hello or goodbye to one or two people; it was a bit overwhelming. Apologies to anyone I missed.




This one?: http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...5&d=1419797164

That's mine (the one with the MKZ plate).

I thought the seats were the same colour as The_Laird's at first, but I'm just getting more and more confused now. I think I'm just going to refer to them white-ish from now on :D

Good to meet you yesterday - The Lairds interior is definately more of a platinum grey colour whereas yours is a cream/donkey brown two tone colouring. What does your code in the front of your service book say?

And you. You're Neil, right? :)

I think we all need to wear name badges .... real name, forum name and a picture of one's car :D

Same as the boot sticker, which is N5D / WF.

Yes that's right +++
Hmm boot sticker says valcona leather / platinum grey
But the colour scheme is definately a beige and mid brown 2 tone scheme going on there. I would probably put this down to it being a final edition and them running out whatever they've got to use up rather than what they planned, we've seen stickers before that are not correctly coded. You could try speaking to the Audi help line and see what interior colour they have on the system for it but I can assure you that you don't have platinum grey!

Interesting, thanks. :)

It's not too important that I find out what it's called .... just curious really.

Interestingly, the service book gives a delivery date for the car of 28/06/02, which would make it quite an early FE, would it not? You'd think they would at least manage to keep the first FEs true to their spec' codes before they began running out of parts.

Manufacturing date is what you need to check, on the sticker. ;)
Mine's not an FE (made 04/02) but was delivered/registered 16/09/2003. :eek:

Wow, that was a long time between manufacture and registration!

My sticker states 05/02, just one month after yours!

I thought that those numbers might be a date, but wasn't sure. It's just on the end of a line that reads:

Mmmm cant say I have ever read in an Audi brochure that the interior was a Donkey brown :ROFL:

I didn't say it was called donkey brown by Audi Mr pedantic :tuttut:, I described it as a two tone colour one of which was a donkey brown colour, simples !! :rolleyes:

http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...6&d=1419797164

Ohhh sorry for making an Ass of myself :D

Yes, that the manufacturing month. You can get more detail elsewhere/online but it's that line on the sticker.

Thanks HP.

:lol: I quite like the idea of Audi brochures comparing interiors with animal colours.

'Donkey' is about right, I'd say, with perhaps a tad of beagle's ears.

I am really enjoying all this prattle about colours!!!!
I think my seats are just dirty in colour 'cos it is used as a grandkids school run vehicle.
A little meet by a few A8 heads and the fun follows.
Good that folk care and that you are all so willing to help each other. I do miss being in the Army and the comradeship that raised.
O/S dipped bulb went on the way home from the meet. First job today was replace it. Bl**dy cold out there. Airbox out, bulb replaced, dead easy. Confident as he**, replaced O/S main bulb, also easy. Confidence in ascendance, replaced airbox and moved to the nearside. Followed the book like last time and took the front left wheel off, then found the wheel arch cover would not flex, it was stiff with cold just like me. Dismounted the power steering reservoir, that gave an me extra half inch, replaced the N/S main bulb, again quite easy. Replaced reservoir, then took it off again to give access to the dipped light. Managed to take off the waterproof cover of the dipped light but it would not come out of the way. Took off the pipe from the coolant reservoir, then unfastened the power steering reservoir mounting and managed to pull the cover away. Replaced dip bulb.
Then disaster. It took Craig and I nearly three hours to fit the bulb holder into the lamp housing/reflector. I could get my hand in but could not place it correctly. Craig's were too big. Off came the airbox, again, photos taken of the O/S lamp and we had success. We were at the wrong angle. We now know a little more about the A8.
After a hot cuppa, reassembled the lot, remembered to put wheel back on, phew! and started to feel brave again. Out came the laptop, connected VCDS and did my first bit of coding. I now have the MMI hidden Menu. One more go and the Old Lady thinks she is Canadian and has the foglights and tailights as DRLs. Fitted a 128GB SDX card in the camera.
So now we are ready for driving to Scotland tomorrow. SWMBO wants to leave at 10:00, drive via Southport to collect two grandkids and away we go. :D
Oh forgot, on final check after putting it all together noticed the N/S parking light was not in the reflector. Being bloo*y minded I managed to get the flipper in place without undoing anything apart from the back cover. Don't ask me how but somehow did it.:o

Good stuff, nice to see your not scared to get stuck in doing things on the car, it's the best way to learn other than asking on here. Enjoy your trip to Scotland.

looks like a good meet with decent weather as well, nice pictures too+++

You were missed Brian - it just wasn't the same without you choking and the heimlich manoeuvre! Seriously though just chew your food better over the coming few days of further celebration in Sconny Botland! +++