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Yuuuupp !! I am asking the question. Are they seen as retro yet, 10 plus years in the market, and if you add the original launch..... quite aged now. I was wondering, what they are like to live with, modified, insurances, sexy wheels to add etc. Nicola has been grumbling about them for quite some time now, so I thought I would start investigating. Please bring opinions, experience and show me tastefully modded ones. I would be happy with a basic, manual model, as the idea is to add stupidly big, wide wheels and deffo a paint job. Two tone Red and black or some other mad contrasting colours.  Imagine this black below the window line and red abobe.    Though a Mk II, this sort of thing would be great.  |
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Last Edit: Jun 8, 2013 9:11:24 GMT by grizz
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Early ones are expensive as they are taxed on engine size. Slightly newer ones are cheap as tax is horrific.
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rx8 - done
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ToolsnTrack
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Get the V6. That noise...... that noise.....
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fred
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Heres a motto from from my old departed dad ''Always aim for the biggest and best you can afford, and pay cash, loans mean you aint affording it'' Ive live by this rule!  |
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Last Edit: Jun 6, 2013 9:54:22 GMT by fred
'79 Cossie ran Cortina - Sold
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'85 Opel Manta GSI - Sold
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Looking for a FD Ventora - Anyone?
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Imagine this black below the window line and red abobe. There was one near work that had the whole roof & pillars painted gloss black (so that it merged in with the glass) - can't remember what colour the rest of the body was, but the blacked out roof looked stunning. |
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jamesv
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Imagine this black below the window line and red abobe. There was one near work that had the whole roof & pillars painted gloss black (so that it merged in with the glass) - can't remember what colour the rest of the body was, but the blacked out roof looked stunning. Most likely a TT Quattro Sport, they came like it from the factory:  |
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And a couple of GSXR's
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Ah - didn't realise it was factory as I've never seen one like that before. A google for TT Quattro Sport shows the rear of the glasshouse rather nicely:  |
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Last Edit: Jun 6, 2013 12:12:23 GMT by Paul H
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Like a lot of cars, i didn't really like them when they first came out, but i saw one the other day, lowered on standard rims, and did a bit of a double take as it looked good!
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Last Edit: Jun 6, 2013 16:29:54 GMT by daver555
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They seem like good cars to me. Not sure if you'd be looking at a quattro or not, but ether way the 1.8t would be my choice, V6's sound nice, but the handling and running costs are better with the 1.8t, and a remapped 1.8t quattro will leave a V6 behind anyway. If it's just a run-around you want then a FWD 1.8t should squeeze 40mpg on the motorway and average 35ish if driven sensible/carefully. (Same engine in my Scirocco's managing over 37 average without me trying to be careful.)
Lower arm rear bushes go, and on quattros one of the rear arms outer bush can seize and cause the arm to fail. Coilpacks are prone to going on the 4 pots too. FWD gearboxes aren't overly strong, but only seem to die from being thrashed rather than wearing out. Water-pumps can be problematic, so if it's had a cambelt check that the pump was done with it. If it's the 1.8t then the recirc valves are often knackered, and boost leaks are fairly common as it takes a bit of a complex route (especially quattros which have 2 intercoolers). All easily and cheaply sorted though. As with any car that sort of age sensors can give issues. Can't think of anything else off the top of my head, and there could be TT specific stuff I don't know about (my knowledge of them comes from A3's, which share the platform with a couple of inches added to the wheelbase.)
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Last Edit: Jun 6, 2013 18:26:49 GMT by RobinJI
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I quite like them for a posh VW Golf, the bauhaus design is quite iconic. Look at the interior of the spider:  Abt did a wide body  Nothing wrong with the original 8 spoke design, but BBS is nice:    But be careful, wearing the wrong glasses may end with:  |
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I'm getting a taste for these everytime we have them in at work. No room in the engine bay to work on the engine. The Haldex systems are supposed to be a weak point in the quattros. And Ive seen alot of broken rear coil springs. The new 3.2 fsi sounds Porsche like (well the one we had in last week did). Nice build quality as you expect from Audi. I'm lucky to have a regular "personal" customer who's got a 1.8 turbo and its great to live with, she tends to leave it with me for weeks at a time, fuel consumption is good for what it is, the only problem I've found with it (other than broken rear coil springs) is first gear whines like mad
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I'm getting a taste for these everytime we have them in at work. No room in the engine bay to work on the engine. The Haldex systems are supposed to be a weak point in the quattros. And Ive seen alot of broken rear coil springs. The new 3.2 fsi sounds Porsche like (well the one we had in last week did). Nice build quality as you expect from Audi. I'm lucky to have a regular "personal" customer who's got a 1.8 turbo and its great to live with, she tends to leave it with me for weeks at a time, fuel consumption is good for what it is, the only problem I've found with it (other than broken rear coil springs) is first gear whines like mad
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RobinJI
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...first gear whines like mad.. Meant to mention that, they do get noisy gears sometimes, but the box never seams to die as a result of it. Might be worth changing the oil if it gets noisy/you buy one that's noisy though, as the cause tends to leave some fragments in the oil. (The gears surface's pit from old oil boiling under pressure.) It tends to be CROWNwheel bolts/rivets giving up that kills the boxes rather than anything in the gear-set its self. |
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jonw
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I looked at them a couple of years back and found that they fell into two categories:
A: Mint, low milage, fully documented and ££££expensive
B: Thrashed, high milage and poor condition ££ lots cheaper.
Never found one that was halfway. Seems they are owned as weekend cars or thrashmobiles. Also spoke to a few people who owned them and they reconed that you had to stay well on to of the servicing or reliability went to pot. If serviced though they are pretty good.
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Definite future classic, but needs another 7-10 years - One of the last pieces of car design which I consider timeless, along with the MK4 Golf.
Real shame it is just a Golf in drag though - and hopefully Audi's image will improve / change as most badly driven repmobiles are silver audi's.
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Some 9000's, a 900, an RX8 & a beetle
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Showed Nicola the thread and she pointed out the silver and black Quatro Sport in rear view guise as a favourite.
Insurance on a Y reg 1.8 is around £250-400/year with excess at about £450
I did not get an outright no..... So it could be on.
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