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New car, a4 Quattro special edition

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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

IMAG4024 by cuprajake1, on Flickr

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,

IMAG4035 by cuprajake1, on Flickr

IMAG4036 by cuprajake1, on Flickr

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

IMAG4048 by cuprajake1, on Flickr


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

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