1990 audi 80

[petermchugh79]

Lads in recently acquired a 1990 audi 80 1.8 injection, two owners 120 miles it's a tidy motor and a brake from my commute mobile yeti, question is what oil, semi synthetic or mineral? Purchase day pics better ones to follow

 

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[Tadhg Tiogar]

Castrol 15w-40 should be enough, semi-synth if you can get it. That's what I had in a 1985 Audi 90.

[Sigmund Fraud]

Can't go wrong with 10W40 semi-synthetic. Get a decent filter and change every 6K miles for peace of mind.

[twosmoke300]

I’d say start with 10/40 semi but go up to 15/40 or down to 5/40 in a vain attempt to shut the hyd lifters up if they get noisy

[Pillock]

That looks mega, can't wait to see more. 

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Oooo that's lovely

 

Often wondered do you have to change the reg when it moves county? Or is it just a marker showing where it was first sold?

 

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[Tadhg Tiogar]

.....do you have to change the reg when it moves county?....

 

Apparently not?

[petermchugh79]

Reg stays with the car for life regardless of what county the owner lives in

 

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[They_all_do_that_sir]

Fair enough - just wondered what the point of having the location marker was!

 

Used to like seeing southern cars floating around north of the border as a kid - mostly Dublin plates but always looked out for ones from far flung corners of the country

 

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[petermchugh79]

My central locking isn't working fuses etc ok, locks keep popping up, I reckon it's the pump, new one coming from Latvia via eBay, 35 euro

 

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[wuvvum]

You used to commute in a Yeti and you bought an Audi 80 to replace it?  You are Skizzer's Irish cousin AICMF€.

[petermchugh79]

Nope think you picked that up wrong still commuting in the yeti

 

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[BorniteIdentity]

 still commuting in the yeti

 

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I are disappoint

[petermchugh79]

105 mile a day, a bit of a stretch for the audi I think

 

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[BorniteIdentity]

105 mile a day, a bit of a stretch for the audi I think

 

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You'll learn.  I'm doing 110 a day in a 1988 Mercedes 190.  Best thing for them tbh.  Anyway - the Yeti is one of a very smoll number of modernz that appeal.  I think because they're no nonsense - and actually a useful tool.

[Skizzer]

You used to commute in a Yeti and you bought an Audi 80 to replace it?  You are Skizzer's Irish cousin AICMF€.

  

You'll learn.  I'm doing 110 a day in a 1988 Mercedes 190.  Best thing for them tbh.  Anyway - the Yeti is one of a very smoll number of modernz that appeal.  I think because they're no nonsense - and actually a useful tool.

A fine choice of vehicles. Here’s my old Yeti, which was indeed supremely practical (this is it having just driven us to Denmark):

 

 

And here’s my Audi 80, a 2.0E auto:

 

[BorniteIdentity]

Didn't have you down as a 'vanity plate' kind of man, Skiz - but that really looks great!  

[Skizzer]

Didn't have you down as a 'vanity plate' kind of man, Skiz - but that really looks great!

 

I’m not, normally - I’ve no desire to have my own initials on a plate. It was meant as a sort of joke ‘anti-vanity’ plate, when Skoda was a slightly crap brand, to stick a finger up at all the ‘X5’ and ‘A4’ and ‘MBZ’ plates. Skoda’s not really a crap brand any more though so the joke is lost, if indeed it was ever funny.

 

It only cost £250 or something direct from the DVLA and I figure I’ll easily get that back from the VRS fanboys if I sell it.

[Talbot]

105 mile a day, a bit of a stretch for the audi I think

If it could do it when it was new, why would it not be able to now?

 

Keeping an old car used is the best thing for them.  Letting them sit on a driveway monday to friday and then expecting them to work for just a few miles at the weekend causes problems.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Didn't have you down as a 'vanity plate' kind of man, Skiz - but that really looks great!  

 

He could also have SK12 ZER.....

[forddeliveryboy]

105 mile a day, a bit of a stretch for the audi I think

 

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If you change the oil and filters every 6000 miles and use a specialist for anything much beyond that, I'd wager an Audi 80 would run and run with less bother over the next twenty years than something you bought new out of a showroom today.

[petermchugh79]

Few more pics of the old girl have the centre caps to put on the alloys, water pump was pissing so iv left it with my local indy to do it, and the timing belt and all other belts as they were cracked, he's Gonna drop the oil and filters and do the rocker cover gasket to. All the bits pull oil only came in at 95 euro, all good brand's as well.

 

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[Schaefft]

My favorite gen 80, I think they messed up the front by integrating the grille into the hood with the next generation. Very cool!

[PiperCub]

That's real nice. It's an Audi that I'd own from the days when they were solid, good looking, reliable cars bought by intelligent people.

 

Unlike the awful looking stuff they put out now and the equally awful owners. (Was it Clarkson a few years back who said 'The cocks of the world have sold their BMW's and bought Audi's now')