hodgy0_2

sadly my Trusted Audi 2.5 TDI Quattro packed up last Saturday

my wife rang me to say it had just "stopped"

well to cut a long story short I diagnosed it as the High Pressure Fuel pump

(after the AA man said it was the ECU - because he got no signal from the ODB2 port) - well that was a blown fuse (12)

anyway the cost of repair out ways the value etc, so a bloke from the garage are buying it off me for £300.00

the car had been brilliant - had it for 8 years, spent very little on it and it had 220K on the clock when it finally went bang

so needed a new car and quite quickly (and I had not really given a replacement much thought)

but in the end replaced with the below, saw it on auto trader at lunchtime, mine by 8.pm!! - 2.0T Quattro Estate (i actually wanted an estate when I bought my old saloon)

I think I got a pretty good buy - but you can never be certain until you have had it for a few months

here she is

johned

Hope things go well,all the best.

hodgy0_2

thanks

I find buying cars a fairly fraught business tbh - and you never really know whether you have bought a lemon until a few months down the line

but I was quite pleased to go out to it this morning and find 4 pretty new Michelin Pilot Sports

which I did not check when I bought it last night!!!!!

LSherratt

iTrader: (1)

You didn't hang around long searching for a new car! Hopefully it turns out as a good one for you. You're right though, despite all the extensive research and viewing a car trying to check everything is "as it should," anything can happen.

scooby k

Just curious, what was the repair cost on the car.

Ste RB5138

You cant complain with 220k miles. Your new Audi A4 looks a good one.

hodgy0_2

well it was going to be about a 1k, but it would probably have entailed poncing about on ebay etc (the new part from TPS was £1900.00) for a second hand one - or a remanufactured one, getting my one sent away

then the whole cambelt issue - what to replace, just the cambelt or complete assembly, what about the water pump etc

and could take weeks etc - then you always have the possibility of something else going wrong

to me it did not make sense - it has been brilliant for the last 8 odd years and still looks great tbh

the funny thing is, on the Friday I drove it to a meeting in London and was only thinking to myself how smooth it was

hodgy0_2

I find it a nightmare tbh (which is why I don't do it that often)

I look at dealers - then start to see private sellers selling similar cars for much cheaper - so you get more "bang" for bucks

but "privately" you sometime end up sitting in some oddballs kitchen for an hour or two with a dog sniffing your crotch

this one was actually a pretty painless deal

but as you say anything could happen - it drives beautifully (for an audi obviously) and everything works

but apparently some have oil consumption issues - so we shall see!!!

JTaylor

Why not another diesel, Hodgy? Nice motor and I'm like you, I tend not to change cars too often. Although I quite fancy a Fiat 124 in bronze for the weekend.

hodgy0_2

Mmm I did toy with it

But I think the winds of change are blowing against diesels - I suspect we may see some retrospective taxes against them

Which is a tad unfair as we were all encouraged to buy them on their "green" credentials, but it turns out that was not quite the whole story

The particulate and NOX emissions are quite bad, they are not as green as billed

I probe would have been happy with the 2.0 TDI, but that meant having to capture two filters on my searches etc, and as I am sure you are aware men are rubbish at multi tasking and carrying more that one thought in their head at a time

So in short I sort of settled on the 2.0 T and could be arsed to look at anything else :-)