New car, a4 Quattro special edition

[Andy]

wow looks excellent

[cuprajake]

Strange day today,

Went and rescued my dad who has been snowed in, for summer tyres the quattro is very good.

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And at the summit

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After we had returned from hunting (big shop) I got chance to mess with my wheels

In the booth prepped and clean

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Then ground coat black

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Then on with silver followed by clear coat

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Tomorrow it will be polish the other three lips then clean the insides as once the wheels are rebuilt they will need balancing.

Jake

[Powervalve Nige]

Awesome Jake 

[cuprajake]

Cheers Nige.


Do you offer any systems for these cars? It's in need of a bit more sound.


Did a bit more on the wheels today,

Sanded the barrels as they were corroded, then put into the booth for primer then paint, went for a gun metal finish inside

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Did the centre caps too

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Here are the centres out of the booth in day light

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Then this aft had a oem Bluetooth module fitted and coded. It's really surprising how much you miss them

Jake

[ed30sam123]

very nice Jake 

[cuprajake]

one thing that has slightly bugged/worried me is the car feels quite notchy on the gear change, hard to get into first and second, well today I changed my gearbox oil, which made a slight improvement nothing drastic, so I used a guide on fine adjustment of the linkage,





what the guide doesn't show is how to get to it so:





take the gear lever off, stupid clip.. I replaced the metal clip with a hose clip after,





then you have to pull the foam out, and the ashtray with 2 8mm bolts,

push the ashtray back, there's some rubber matting, fold that back, and under it a plastic cover with 2 10mm bolts,

undo these and then you can see the linkage,





use this vid

its made a massive difference,




ive also found a few little niggles to sort to keep me busy haha

[cuprajake]

Hey guys

This is the oil I used, all genuine stuff from audi, fortune.

Diff and gearbox

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Then I set about my heated passat washer jets, now the guides say that you have to glue these in place, which is pants and you don't

There are tabs front and back which are straight along the edge, take a soldering iron and heat the tab, then bend it forward, the heat stops it breaking,

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Then when you fit it to the car simply put the back in first then the tabs you've bent can be pushed in to hold the washer jet in place

Then finally I built the wheels up, torqued to 26ftlb and then tomorrow ill be getting them balanced

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Jake

[cuprajake]

Well cars been a pita today,

Dropped the little lad off at nursery and the remote locking wont work, so change the battery and go through the rest procedure. And nothing, so using vagcom I clear the keys and then go to recode but the car won't recognise the key when the buttons pressed, at home I code the other key fine, so I'm now left wondering if the fob is a dud.

On a better note I've ordered 5mm front spacers and 15mm rear both hubbcentric with longer bolts and lockers, unforeseen but not too bad.

Jake

[GTiBlues]

Sounds a good touch with spacers. As for your fob, my guess it'll be the fob too? my old Leon had the same issue.

[jaffa]

i thought i recognised those wheels they were lammy's weren't they?

some nice touches to the car makes a big difference

[cuprajake]

The spacers arrived just after lunch






So chucked the wheels on, 


Tbh could of got away with 10 on the front and maybe 20 on the rear lol 









They really suit the car,  so happy with them. 


My kufatech harnesses came too so the Xenons will go in on Sat. 


Then just a few minor bits like the foot well lights and door lights to fit. 


Also got the remote locking working on the fob again. 


Jake 

[cuprajake]

Fitted the lights at dinner 


Bumper off jobbie





Then back together





Still need to do the two repair wires but the lights have coded in ok. 


One how ever is yellowing. So hope it's just the bulb, not ballast. More honest eBay sellers. 

[doylebros]

Fitted the lights at dinner


Bumper off jobbie





Then back together





Still need to do the two repair wires but the lights have coded in ok.


One how ever is yellowing. So hope it's just the bulb, not ballast. More honest eBay sellers.

Is it just me but I can't see the photos it's just black?

[cuprajake]

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[doylebros]

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No problem with the photos now - good progress being made