A pre-work collection

[Dave_Q]

Apparently now we start these things with a picture of our breakfast, like a weird Maestro-obsessed version of Instagram.

 

 

Hopefully the tablets work, or we could be on for a double figure poo count, and I'm only going to Sheffield.

[garethj]

Does the golden syrup take the taste of the wallpaper paste away?  It's a good idea in case the diarrhoea tablets don't work.

 

What's the car?

[Kringle]

That's like a studio scene for comparing camera image quality.

Chodspeed by the way!

[320touring]

Chodspeed! ( But not from the poo hole plz)

[Dave_Q]

Internet detectives will note I have already posted a link to said car in the LCBL thread.

 

On the first train now, it has game boards on the tabletop, sadly no community chest cards or little hats for me to challenge my fellow commuters to a round.

 

[Dave_Q]

That's like a studio scene for comparing camera image quality.

Chodspeed by the way!

We have 3x children, each less capable of putting food in their actual mouths than the last, so we need a robust wipe clean tablecloth.

 

Also, one of said children was allowed to choose the pattern, hence the visual smartie assault.

[spartacus]

That's hardcore, collecting a car before work.

In the unlikely event you get stuck with anything I'm in Sheffield today, just PM me.

Good luck!

[Dave_Q]

Well, I'm a flexitime office monkey working in an office where 70% of people have already knocked off for xmas, so nobody will care in the slightest if I turn up at half 9ish instead of half 8ish.

 

Wakefield achieved, home of Hirst and erm, getting trains to other places.

 

Must remember to get off this one before Lincoln.

 

[DVee8]

Ummm after a little shirlock homes, work I may know what this is.

[Dave_Q]

And now to work.

 

[rantingYoof]

Liability score?

 

Nicely done sir!

[bramz7]

Nice! I had a lift in one of those not too long ago and was surprised by how much I liked it.

 

I hear they can be a bit prickly at this age but what isn't?

[320touring]

Ahh mate...

 

VAGwanker now eh? Tsk;)

 

What lump and is it mapped?

[Dave_Q]

The obligatory:

 

 

Its a 2.5 V6 tdi 180.

 

First impressions:

Is actually pretty rapid

1st and 2nd gear aren't quite where I expect them to be, but it has done 225k.

 

Not mapped yet that I know of but this may happen.

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

Bugger! - I was hoping for the 745i if I'm honest…………..

Looks a competent winter beater though. Another one on the 'is it mapped' wonderers - they all seem to have it done.

[Dave_Q]

Work achieved: let's offroad!

 

 

This is in height 3 of 4. 

 

I did press the suspenders button a few times when I set off but it didn't move and just gave me bad error lights. 

 

More messing on the way back got it up to level 2 and subsequently level 3 in the car park, but it will not go to level 4 currently.

 

Seller said the rear suspension dropped which is 99% certain to be an airbag leak. These are £50 a corner off of China and I have 2 arriving at home today. 

 

I calculate the liability factor as:

 

Baseline - 180bhp/£700 = 0.257

+0.1 for declared fault on suspension

+0.1 for presence of known unreliable air suspension

 

Total factor 0.457 FTP/week.

[D Spares & Tyres]

I once followed one of these that was slammed to the ground. No suspension at all and all the passengers were jiggling up and down when the car went over bumps in the road!

[Dave_Q]

Yeah the air suspension is infamously flaky, basically each strut has a rubber airbag thing round it instead of a spring and when you lower it it folds over itself like nora battys tights.

 

The bags perish and leak, which causes the compeessor to run overtime, which also wears and fails.

 

All this stuff used to be $$$ but now airbags are £50 a corner and you can rebuild the compressor for £25, I'm relatively confident I can sort this one without selling any limbs.

[w00dy]

Nice buy.

 

That sounds very reasonable for air suspension bits. Should've gone with the 2.7 TT to keep things scary.

[Schaefft]

Good to see you managed to get to work, the leak might not be as bad as the one I had in the Lincoln before I replaced the front shock, that eventually caused the front to be completed slammed to the ground within 10 minutes, hotrod style...

 

Also I didn't know there was a 745i involved in this. That would have been even better!

[SierraMikeHotel]

 

 

All this stuff used to be $$$ but now airbags are £50 a corner and you can rebuild the compressor for £25, I'm relatively confident I can sort this one without selling any limbs.

Now there's a good rebuttal to the usual "modern stuff is too complicated, it'll all be scrapped when it's five years because it can't be fixed." Nicely bought!

[Junkman]

Must remember to get off this one before Lincoln.

Precisely.

[LessThanEqual]

2.5 TDI is a 5 pot, no?

[Dave_Q]

Not in this one, no.

 

The 2.5tdi was a 5 pot in vans, and I think also in the previous gen A6/100, but these, B5 A4/Passat etc etc from I think about 98 on are V6.

[garethj]

Obviously after reading this thread I went straight to eBay and there’s a few around that will probably go for less than a grand. They look quite good too, better than the Q5 which I suppose is the modern equivalent