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Motor Mad:
Morning

I bought a Shadow Blue five door GTi a couple of years ago and sold it six months ago thinking we needed a more practical car.



An Audi A4 Avant S Line replaced the Golf, but I really didn't get on with it. My wife does a lot of small journeys and that plus all the horror stories with the 2.0 TDi oil pump failures, DMF, injector issues and DPF/EGR problems contributed to it staying in our ownership for 4.5 months. By far the least amount of time we've owned a car and a bit of a hit financially having bought from an independent. It was a nice looking car and a lovely place to sit, just the wrong engine!



I sold the Audi back at the end of January and have been looking at lots of different options.

The other week I noticed a five door Edition 30 with a good specification with a slightly quirky advert on Autotrader. Out of curiosity I contacted the seller and traveled the four hour round trip to view it.  It turns out it's a one lady owner from new, having covered 45k miles. It's a five door, manual with the Winter Pack, high line computer, multi-function steering wheel, Xenon headlights, rear parking sensors and a detailed service history. It's not been modified in any way which is ideal and it has four decent matching Continental tyres.

Body work wise it needs a really good clean and machine polish but its not had any paint and the body work is pretty honest. I gave the interior a really good clean and started claying the bonnet and doors. I also cleaned up the door shuts and the engine bay looks pretty horrible at present! In the coming months I'll get a detailer to give it a thorough correction.

Where it's been parked under trees, the drains and scuttle are full of leaves and crud.  What is the best way to clean this out? Pressure washer? I've checked the wings for rust and they are solid. My previous car went in to VW to have some rust sorted so I'm aware of these issues!

Plans are to tidy up the paint work and engine bay, then get it serviced with engine and gearbox fluid change, AC regas and get the cam follower replaced.

Cheers

Motor Mad:
A couple of pictures of the new car





I've done a couple of minor jobs. I changed the pollen filter which was pretty full of tree and replaced it with a Bosch carbon filter. I've also spent a bit of time with a machine polisher getting rid of some of the swirl marks and imperfections. I bought a DAs6 Pro with M105 and M205, plus Hex Logic pads.



I focused on the bird poo stains that had marred the paint work and there were also scratches where it had dried and welded itself to the paint making it tricky to remove.

Before



After. All gone!



Its booked it in on Monday to get two small car park dings removed, then on Tuesday its going for a service, replacing the engine oil and transmission fluid at SE Autoworks in Guildford.

Over the weekend I need to get my new cam follower fitted which I've just collected from VW. Strange that there's an expiry date on the cam follower.

Dave J:
New car's looking good - I don't think I could ever stay on top of keeping black paint in good condition, so you're braver than me!
I've wondered that about the cam follower too when I bought a replacement for mine - not sure what could 'expire', other than VW's profits if they are held in stock for too long...

Andy:
Welcome back.We have a lot of kia cars come back to us at work with dpf issues..Congrats on the purchase of Ed30

Motor Mad:

--- Quote from: Dave J on April 10, 2015, 09:30:41 pm ---New car's looking good - I don't think I could ever stay on top of keeping black paint in good condition, so you're braver than me!
--- End quote ---

Cheers, a grey or silver edition 30 would have been my preference, but because this car was a low mileage one lady owner car from new, I thought it was worth it. The paint has come up really well so now it's coated in wax, keeping it tidy shouldn't be too hard.......

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