Ocuk detectives. Is it a lemon

233 · 5 Jul 2011 at 12:30

[TW]Fox;19518700 said:
its covered 8-9k a year therefore may well have been on time based instead of mileage based servicing. This is every 2 years.

So its first service would be 2005, second 2007, 3rd 2009 and then due it's 4th about now, potentially.

There is obviously potential that it had 3 services in 4 years then nothing but its far from the obvious dog you clearly thought it was.

snap, the very same with our audi on long life 20k service intervals with 3 confirmed services and the 4th is due in 32 days

seems to be quite common these days cars having 20k service intervals, vauxhall do the same atm with the 20k intervals

4T5 · 5 Jul 2011 at 12:34

Glad you got what sounds to be a decent car but where the **** are the pics. :confused:

[TW]Fox · 5 Jul 2011 at 12:46

It's an Audi A3, surely you know what one looks like

4T5 · 5 Jul 2011 at 12:47

Fair comment but I like seeing pics of other peoples motors even if they are straight out the box.

233 · 5 Jul 2011 at 12:58

will get some up once its had a good wash and polish

too busy fitting a kitchen today see my house move thread in a few hours for pics of that

Raymond Lin · 5 Jul 2011 at 13:27

[TW]Fox;19518700 said:
its covered 8-9k a year therefore may well have been on time based instead of mileage based servicing. This is every 2 years.

So its first service would be 2005, second 2007, 3rd 2009 and then due it's 4th about now, potentially.

There is obviously potential that it had 3 services in 4 years then nothing but its far from the obvious dog you clearly thought it was.

nooo, there was a gap of 3 years in the middle.

There was a 2004 stamp, a 2006 stamp, 2009 and that's it. None of them were dealer stamps either (I expect the first one to be at least), and since 2009 it had only done £6,000 miles according to the mileage reading on the book.

Two things that struck me, a 2 consecutive years (i.e. 2005 & 2006 missing or 2006 & 2007 missing so 3 year gap) missing stamps and only done 6k in the last 2 years.

mjt · 5 Jul 2011 at 15:10

Raymond Lin said:
nooo, there was a gap of 3 years in the middle.

There was a 2004 stamp, a 2006 stamp, 2009 and that's it. None of them were dealer stamps either (I expect the first one to be at least), and since 2009 it had only done £6,000 miles according to the mileage reading on the book.

Two things that struck me, a 2 consecutive years (i.e. 2005 & 2006 missing or 2006 & 2007 missing so 3 year gap) missing stamps and only done 6k in the last 2 years.

Perhaps it was December '06 and January '09

My 10 year old BMW only has 4 or 5 stamps in it, but then it's done little over 50k.

LeonT · 5 Jul 2011 at 15:33

How do you find it compared to your LCR? Wasn't that remapped? I'm thinking of doing the same switch (heard one pull off the other day - want)!! Although mines 220bhp not 260+ like yours!

Cheers

233 · 5 Jul 2011 at 22:30

LCR is mine,

and still happily with us. actually was dyno'd at 287 bhp and is great fun.

The A3 isnt mine, although i've done the chasing the finding and the buying its for my old man so will be going over to him as soon as the wheels are back from refurb and i give it a quick machine polish

deffo slower than the LCR but with a lovely noise and the DSG box is superb and is a must on mine and the wifes next car(most likely at this stage a mk5 r32)