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I'm going up north next week and will be close to their establishment. Wanted to book in for Thursday. Will take pictures of magic machine if they'll allow... Regards, Sergey
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Confidence is the feeling you have before you know better . . . .  Audi A8 D2 3.7 Quattro Sport 1999 FL - Melange 2nd Place Winner - A8-Freunde Annual German Meet 2012 at Edersee 20" x 9" Bentley GTC Wheels with 385mm W12 Front Discs & Bentley Caliper Covers, Front Lowered on Coilovers, Xenons, Combined DRLs and LED Foglights to modified OEM front fog lamp position, Alcantara/Leather, Full Black Alcantara headlining + pillars and blind shelf, Bespoke Flat Bottomed Sports Steering Wheel, Dark Myrtle Wood, Autodim Mirrors, Bose, Blinds, Digital TV, Ski Hatch, Modified rear exhaust section for extra V8 Burble  Audi S8 D2 Final Edition 2002, Avus Silver with Red Leather Interior Tiptronic with Sport mode button, Sony rear entertainment package, Bose sound system, Audi Navigation Plus, 20 inch Final Edition alloys, Full Cat Back Stainless Milltek exhaust, giving a great V8 burble Audi A8L D2 4.2 Petrol with LPG - Ebony Black Audi A8L D4 FL 4.0T Petrol twin turbo - Havana Black Audi A2 1.6 FSi Sport - Dolphin Grey with Votex body kit and Red Leather Interior and some other A8's A8L's and Mercs
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Drove 200 miles up north to Chester Transmissions (http://www.transcentre.co.uk/) and did the 'Service Plus'.
Specialisation goes a long way. You immediately see the difference between specialised service and generic service -- equipment and skills. They remove line from oil cooler and connect machine there. On A8 D2 you don't have to remove bumper for this. Only undertray is removed. Magic machine works in two liter increments. Two liters out first, then two liters in. Engine doesn't have to be running. It took 11 liters of fluid to do the change. Was impressed when they removed sump and immediately chemically cleaned it with specialised equipment. Then, because they know gearbox sumps get rusty, they striped paint from bottom of the sump with another machine. Then they paint bottom of the sump while other guy is actually changing oil. While you wait. You drive away with clean and painted sump. .I came to Chester Transmissions with one of 27 sump bolts broken off. This is because idiots from Reading Audi left the broken sump bolt in my gearbox without even telling me last time I changed oil there. Reading Audi tried to drill the remains of the bolt out, but of course they only damaged area around the bolt even more. So this time I brought all new bolts (which I didn't have to do because Chester Transmissions had them), my broken bolt was removed, area was repaired with a special re-threading kit. All bolts are in place now. It took 3 and half hours to do the whole thing, that included fixing the bolt. Since initially I planned to change gearbox fluid myself I purchased all Audi genuine parts for my 5HP19 quattro gearbox (gearbox code FBB) and brought them with me: 1. 11 liters of transmission fluid: G052162A2 2. 27 sump bolts: WHT 000 747 3. Transmission fluid strainer: 01V325429 4. Transmission fluid strainer gasket: 01V325443 5. Sump gasket: 01V321371 6. Sump plug sealing washer: 01V321379 7. Drain plug with sealing washer: 01V321377 You don't need to buy parts of you go there. Very happy. Pictures of magic machine, connections to oil cooler lines and my sump right after removal.
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Great write up thanks Sergey
I've moved the relevant posts to a separate thread in D2 Transmission as we had a mix of D2 and D3 discussions going and and have made this a sticky for future reference - can you re-post the pics you placed up the correct way around? lol Cheers
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Confidence is the feeling you have before you know better . . . . Audi A8 D2 3.7 Quattro Sport 1999 FL - Melange 2nd Place Winner - A8-Freunde Annual German Meet 2012 at Edersee 20" x 9" Bentley GTC Wheels with 385mm W12 Front Discs & Bentley Caliper Covers, Front Lowered on Coilovers, Xenons, Combined DRLs and LED Foglights to modified OEM front fog lamp position, Alcantara/Leather, Full Black Alcantara headlining + pillars and blind shelf, Bespoke Flat Bottomed Sports Steering Wheel, Dark Myrtle Wood, Autodim Mirrors, Bose, Blinds, Digital TV, Ski Hatch, Modified rear exhaust section for extra V8 Burble Audi S8 D2 Final Edition 2002, Avus Silver with Red Leather Interior Tiptronic with Sport mode button, Sony rear entertainment package, Bose sound system, Audi Navigation Plus, 20 inch Final Edition alloys, Full Cat Back Stainless Milltek exhaust, giving a great V8 burble Audi A8L D2 4.2 Petrol with LPG - Ebony Black Audi A8L D4 FL 4.0T Petrol twin turbo - Havana Black Audi A2 1.6 FSi Sport - Dolphin Grey with Votex body kit and Red Leather Interior and some other A8's A8L's and Mercs Last edited by Architex_mA8tey; 3rd February 2013 at 11:58 AM.
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Neil, don't know what to do with pics. They show correctly on my computer. I only discovered that they are upside down when I uploaded them to forum. Pictures were taken with iphone and it seems it was 'upside down' at that moment. But iphone has magic sensor and it embeds information about iphone position in the picture. All Mac software I have is aware of sensor information in the picture, so picture is always shown correctly. I don't know exactly what to do now since I need to learn how to strip sensor information from picture first.
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I've changed them around and re-attached them - all done with a i-phone ahemmmm
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Confidence is the feeling you have before you know better . . . . Audi A8 D2 3.7 Quattro Sport 1999 FL - Melange 2nd Place Winner - A8-Freunde Annual German Meet 2012 at Edersee 20" x 9" Bentley GTC Wheels with 385mm W12 Front Discs & Bentley Caliper Covers, Front Lowered on Coilovers, Xenons, Combined DRLs and LED Foglights to modified OEM front fog lamp position, Alcantara/Leather, Full Black Alcantara headlining + pillars and blind shelf, Bespoke Flat Bottomed Sports Steering Wheel, Dark Myrtle Wood, Autodim Mirrors, Bose, Blinds, Digital TV, Ski Hatch, Modified rear exhaust section for extra V8 Burble Audi S8 D2 Final Edition 2002, Avus Silver with Red Leather Interior Tiptronic with Sport mode button, Sony rear entertainment package, Bose sound system, Audi Navigation Plus, 20 inch Final Edition alloys, Full Cat Back Stainless Milltek exhaust, giving a great V8 burble Audi A8L D2 4.2 Petrol with LPG - Ebony Black Audi A8L D4 FL 4.0T Petrol twin turbo - Havana Black Audi A2 1.6 FSi Sport - Dolphin Grey with Votex body kit and Red Leather Interior and some other A8's A8L's and Mercs
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3rd February 2013, 09:55 PM
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Just out of interest I've found out where the machine comes from (in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada): http://www.kenvo.com/products.htm
You can even download the manuals here: http://www.kenvo.com/download.htm
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2002 Final Edition S8. Ebony black with Silver Grey leather and myrtle wood trim. Current mods: solar sun roof, 20mm rear spacers, 15 mm on front, red brembo callipers, 6k headlights, rear view camera, engine remap, alloy dash dial rings, alloy navi rings, tt/phaeton pedal upgrade, (and custom matching foot rest) dension ipod interface & parrot hands free kit (both fully hidden), av input, tv in motion switched thro' PF switch in blanking plug right of steering column, Audi 'quattro' sill covers, repositioned centre console switches, radio clock, .Planned mods: auto-dimming rear view mirror, dash cam (as steamship's), fit the ski hatch, refit philips drl's (or maybe not - nope, definitely not - horrible botch!).
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