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A man that appreciates a mature mistress
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Paul Gosport UK ________________________ Audi S8 2002 FE Avus Silver / Extended Red Leather. Daily Driver: BMW 3 series GT - Just more practical for my camping trips! Last edited by strummagnet; 30th May 2022 at 08:20 PM. |
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Fabulous...
D2 DR. Super work indeed.. Do you offer an inspection service? |
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I'm not offering any workshop services at the moment sorry.
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Picked it up yesterday, nice and bright day after the rain and all seems well....... until last night at dusk the bumper looked a lot darker than the rest of the car. Today at certain angles it is looking darker and also slightly purple in some lights. The painted bumper that MJ had done was never this 'different' and matched the rest of the car perfectly. This one is really rattling my OCD! What to do? Could the ceramic coating on the rest of the car be having an effect? Should I wait until the paint 'hardens' before tackling the paint shop?
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Paul Gosport UK ________________________ Audi S8 2002 FE Avus Silver / Extended Red Leather. Daily Driver: BMW 3 series GT - Just more practical for my camping trips! Last edited by strummagnet; 6th April 2023 at 01:40 PM. |
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I suspect your paint guy has mixed up some stock Avus Silver from the code, which would probably have matched fine 20 years ago. Alas, over that last 20 years the paint on the car has lightened somewhat (its darker under the badges), and so it no longer matches the code. I have another Avus S8 which has exactly the same issue on the fuel filler flap - just a shade darker than the rest of the car.
When I had it painted they scanned the bootlid to get the exact shade and mixed the paint to suit what the car actually was, rather than what the original recipe says, hence it was a better match. |
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Better put your paint guys on notice just in case. And please get better MJ as I just get the collywobbles thinking that I have to take the car to anybody else to have it worked on
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Paul Gosport UK ________________________ Audi S8 2002 FE Avus Silver / Extended Red Leather. Daily Driver: BMW 3 series GT - Just more practical for my camping trips! |
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MOT Fail - That went not too well
MOT day today. Failed on emissions as attached info:
Any clues where I should look first? I have VCDS Lite to check but not sure what I would be checking
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Paul Gosport UK ________________________ Audi S8 2002 FE Avus Silver / Extended Red Leather. Daily Driver: BMW 3 series GT - Just more practical for my camping trips! Last edited by strummagnet; 13th April 2023 at 03:37 PM. |
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As the above.
Plan B. Looking at the CO margin its going to be: Wynns MOT treatment and a gentle 'Italian Tune Up' Booked in later this week - fingers crossed.
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Paul Gosport UK ________________________ Audi S8 2002 FE Avus Silver / Extended Red Leather. Daily Driver: BMW 3 series GT - Just more practical for my camping trips! |
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Do a long drive just before retest as well to make sure CATs are nice and hot
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Currently 8less 2011 Q7 S Line 3.0TDI, 2016 Tesla Model S 90D 8 history: 2006 A8 Sport 4.2TDI quattro SOLD, 1997 S8, reached end of life with gearbox failure |
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The MOT place I use is a fairly short drive from my home so I always go the long way round and give it a good blast en route. One year I forgot and the weather was awful, complete with a deep flood only a couple of hundred yards from the test centre. Fortunately the technician had the common sense to "rev the nuts off it" on the ramp when he realised it had got cold and wet on the way there, so it passed.
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2003 D2 FL S8. Irish Green Pearl/Beige. Solar sunroof, auto-dim mirrors, electric rear seat functions and extended leather. Ski hatch retrofit. Aftermarket reversing camera. DVB-T and XCarlink now removed as redundant. 2016 Volvo V40 T5 Cross Country (4WD) with ALL the toys including adaptive cruise etc. etc. Osmium Grey with Blonde/Charcoal leather interior. Polestar performance "optimisation". (Even rarer than a D2 S8!) Oh, and a brand new engine at just under 30,000 miles on the factory one! Finally: gone, but not forgotten..... 1998 D2 PF S8. Agate Grey/Platinum. Every option (I think) except electric rear seats, Tiptronic steering wheel, ski hatch, towbar & dimming door mirrors. e.g. Cruise control, NavPlus/TV, Bose, GSM, Xenons, Solar roof, Parking sensors, Alcantara/leather everywhere of course. (internal dimming mirror added later) 1998 (very early) Ford Focus 1.8 Zetec; ABS/TCS, Heated screen/mirrors, Aircon. Added Auto-dim mirror, Leather seats, Trip computer, Cruise control, OEM Ford SatNav with CD changer. And before that a lot of Rover 800s, a few oddities, a lovely Triumph Dolomite 1850HL with Overdrive and way back in my schooldays an Austin Seven aka Mini 850! |
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