It'll be his life if it continues!
I appreciate it was cheap and you might as well try it, but you don't sound happy with it and you're plagued with problems.
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It'll be his life if it continues!
I appreciate it was cheap and you might as well try it, but you don't sound happy with it and you're plagued with problems.
Paid £9k for a 1-owner FSH with 110,000 miles. Should've paid £8k had I known the AC compressor was on its way out.
I also didn't know that replacing the thermostat was such a big job either. Cost a fortune in labour!
Spent £1500 on big service, cam belt, water pump, thermostat, etc.
Spent another £650 on new AC compressor.
£100 on rear pads
So I'm in for £11500 on 'repairs'.
Same spec cars (nav, heated full leather, adaptive xenon, cruise), albeit with around 80-100,000 miles go for around £12500.
So yes, I really should have spent more in the first place on a better one, but things would've broken eventually anyway and the cambelt would've needed doing eventually, which was the biggest job.
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That's not very helpful either.
But if you think the engine code and model year aren't of any importance more fool you.
I was trying to be helpful and offer advice
2007 S3 8P. Thanks
Dude, you can't BYO Stuff in this country
Paid cash for labour so saved VAT there though.
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Annoyingly after reading this thread I've experienced the same thing today.
Went to leave the car park after work and nearly went straight through the junction. Wooden pedal as if no servo assistance.
A mile later after getting onto the 50mph dual carriageway I seemed to have proper pedal feel but was still taking it easy and braking early.
Left home again to go to Glasgow and the first push of the pedal was back to it's usual over assisted nonsense.
I've checked the vacuum hose from the manifold visually and can't see any problems.
Surely a sticky caliper wouldn't cause such an issue? More likely a vacuum issue or the servo is ****ed?
Went to leave the car park after work and nearly went straight through the junction. Wooden pedal as if no servo assistance.
A mile later after getting onto the 50mph dual carriageway I seemed to have proper pedal feel but was still taking it easy and braking early.
Left home again to go to Glasgow and the first push of the pedal was back to it's usual over assisted nonsense.
I've checked the vacuum hose from the manifold visually and can't see any problems.
Surely a sticky caliper wouldn't cause such an issue? More likely a vacuum issue or the servo is ****ed?
Thanks for that, still £1k in the pot as such, and hopefully...or surely not much else can go wrong! The main cost has been the service which bumped up the costs somewhat.
I wonder how cost effective it would be to actually drive to uk to get things done...prices seem ridiculous!
