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    BYE BYE A3

    Decided the time was right to change the old girl for something newer and different. Ended up with a rather nice 2012 Q3 S line Quattro which I must admit is brilliant ! Will still be hanging around the forum and still have VCDS with which I will be happy to help people if and when required...
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    Advice on tyres - Decision and thanks

    Hi all -just to let you know that I am having Goodyear Eagle F1 Assymetric 2's fitted on Tuesday. £112.00 each all inc. Many thanks to all of you who helped me make the decision - I'm sure it's the right one for the price ??? :beerchug:
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    Advice Please on New Tyres

    Appreciate some guidance here chaps (and chapesses) on what new tyres to go for :- Car is 2.0L TDI 140 Sportback (2006) Looking at (in no particular order):- 1. Dunlop SP Sportmaxx TT 2. Pirelli P6000 3. Goodyear Eagle F1 Assymetric 4. Falken FK452 Currently got Michelin Pilot Sport 2 My...
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    Green 'Battery Bars'

    At the risk of being classed as a 'dummy', could someone please explain how the number of green bars is calculated. It can't be anything to do with number of posts because I have two bars with nearly 2500 posts and some people have 'battery full' if you know what I mean with less than 1000 posts...
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    Is This problem a Canbus Wiring fault ??

    Hi guys hope you can help I was asked to code an AUX socket into a 56 plate S4 Cabriolet (B7 chassis) with factory fitted RNS-e but no telephone. I am using fully registered VCDS version 10.6.4. (from Nige). When I did a scan there were a few faults but the scan did not cover modules 37...
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    GB Pound sign disappeared

    Has anyone else noticed that the '£' (pound sign if it doesn't display ! ) has been replaced by a square symbol on the A3 8P forum ? Not particularly drastic but just thought I'd mention it !!
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    TWEETS tab

    Not sure if this is the right section so apologies if not. I do not subscribe to Twitter and find the 'tweets' tab popping upon the left to be very irritating and getting in the way of reading posts. Is there any way that I can remove this via my personal settings or, if not, could you...
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    Unsubscribe from thread

    No offence to anyone but I have been subscribed to loads of threads and get emails indicating new posts in those threads. The previous forum set-up allowed you to unsubscribe once you had finished with either helping, or being involved with the threads. Please tell me how to unsubscribe in...
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    ANY TIPS PLEASE ON RENOVATING A SCRUFFY PUNCHED LEATHER STEERING WHEEL

    Hi - first post on this section. Have trawled the detailing forum but can't seem to find any info. to help me with improving the wheel I have just bought. It's an A3 punched leather sports multi-function wheel which isn't too bad but just needs some TLC. All help and advice will be much...
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    THE GREAT STEERING ECU HUNT !!!

    Hi guys - I have spent ages and ages trawling through all the threads that I could find to do with the required ECU for cruise control AND mfsw. I have successfully (sort of ) retro-fitted CC and now wish to try a mfsw just because I want the radio controls to hand basically. I have bluetooth...
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    Beware LED sidelights and MOT failure !!

    Just had MOT done - passed eventually. On arrival to collect car MOT man said "do you want to know what it's failed on " ? Obviously I said yes and he produced the fail sheet which said :- nearside and offside front position lamps incorrect colour ( 1.1.A.2c ). This sheet had already been sent...
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    VCDS User Manual

    Been reading the on-line user manual to try and understand the system and what it does. Have just about got the hang of things and used the interactive on-line manual but have one (possibly stupid) question :- The user manual makes very many references to refer to 'Factory Repair Manual'...