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    AUDI A4 2.0T FSI (211PS) S Line Estate burning oil quickly

    Hi, I recently bought a second hand Audi A4 Estate with 75K on the clock from an Audi VW garage who serviced it before I drove it away. In the first month I drove approximately 2500 miles with supposedly no oil loss according to the dash instrument, then over the past 2 weeks and ~ 500 miles...
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    Air Con Fault Knocking Noise - Any Ideas?

    Hi All, Its only started over the past few days but when my A/C is on in my car, i seem to get a loud knocking noise (somewhat like the below video) Does anyone have any ideas of how easy this is to fix?
  3. theo289

    Help needed. Recommendations for a first car for a friend.

    Hi all, Currently own a b7 a4 and absolutely love it. Got a friend who's looking at an a3 but has a budget for around £800. Been looking at the below...
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    Parrot MKi9200 Bluetooth Fitting To Audi A4 B7

    All, Any ideas on how easy this is? relatively straight forwarded? i fitted a parrot head unit to my old bora years back and it was pretty straight forward. obviously as this bluetooth unit is an addition to the head unit, is it easy for fitting? Any help is apriciated
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    Possible Injector Fault? White Smoke on IDLE

    Hi All, I took my car into an independent garage the other day to get two engine mounts swapped over as i was experiencing an awful lot of shaking when my car was stationary. Since replacing them, the car was left in the garage over night and in the morning the chap turned the engine on and...
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    Audi Rns-e V1 Sd Card Compatible?

    Hi All, I have a 2007 Audi A4 with the first generation RNS-E MMI unit and i've noticed that there are two SD memory card slots. Couple of questions, whats the maximum capacity that the unit supports? Is it as straight forward as buying a memory card, putting music onto it and then plug & play...
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    Wheel Refurb Colour Choice - What Shall I Do?

    Hi All, I currently have the 18" RS6 alloys on my Audi A4 Special Edition in Black, and the wheels are in a little bit of need of refurbing. The thing is what colour shall i go? Choices are keep it OEM (Silver), Gunmetal Grey, Anthracite or Gloss Black. Thinking more about Gunmetel Grey -...
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    EGR Cleaning

    Hi All, Thinking about giving my B7 Special Editions EGR a clean - how simple is it? Never done this before but willing to give it a go if its easy enough :) Thanks!
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    Engine Mounts Seized?

    Hi All, My B7 A4 appears to be shaking a little excessively when idle. Guessing the engine mounts have gone? Is there anything higher grade than OEM to go for? How much am i looking for getting these changed etc? Thanks!
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    A4 Coil Light Flashing & No Response From Turbo

    Hi All, Was driving my A4 to work this morning and suddenly just lost power, coil light started flashing and could only do around 40/50mph. Car has gone into Audi as i was driving past them but does anyone have any thoughts of what it could be? Thanks!
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    Diesel Fuel Cleaners

    Hi All, Has anyone had any experience with diesel fuel cleaners? Am looking at purchasing BG244, recommended by a friend, am quite unsure about throwing a product straight into the car but obviously if it cleans the engine/ improves the drive, i'm quite keen :) and seems a lot cheaper than...
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    AUX Input for 2nd Gen RNSE Unit B7

    Hi All, I have an Audi A4 B7 with the 2nd generation RNSE unit which only has a CD changer - is there an easy way of hooking up AUX to the unit? Thanks!
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    Whilst driving, car suddenly looses power for a millisecond then judders

    Hi All, Just a bit of an odd issue, i will be driving in third around 35/40 at a constant speed not booting the car and suddenly i will just loose power for a millisecond, the car appears to hiccup and then carrys on. Any ideas? Had this issue before with an A3 170PD and ended up having to get...
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    Thinking of buying an A4 170 TDi Avant - Suggestions please

    Hi All, Was previously a member on here with my Audi A3 which i sold for a BMW 325d. After selling the BMW, i purchased an Impreza WRX STI which is an absolutely amazing car however the commuting to work, having to travel around the UK is not good at all for the car and its economy! Thinking...
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    Removing Audi Center Caps safely

    Hi All, I am having to remove the centre caps from my Audi to place back my original alloys onto the car - obviously i don't want to use the tool audi provided as they scratch the sh*t off the inside of the alloy! - does anyone use something better? safer? possibly a little botch tool/...
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    Would you put two stroke in a diesel engine to clean the inside of the engine out?!

    Rather strange as a question but would you put two stroke in diesel fuel to clean out the engine? Reasons why i am asking this questions is that an old friend of mine who has a Ford Mondeo ST Diesel with around 100k miles on did exactly this and said that it improved the car, its MPG and cleaned...
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    Audi A3 TDI Sportback turning over and randomly not starting

    Hi All, Just started happening as of yesterday when i went to Kwick Fit to get some new wheels fitted to my car and once the car was put back onto the ground with the sciscor lift, the car just wouldn't start! Would tick over absolutely fine and after around 4 attempted to start it, it started...
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    Best way of disc between brake disc and alloy

    Hi All, Probably one of the most vague posts here but i have a little bit of surface rust which i wish to remove between the brake disc and the alloy wheel. i've tried Iron Out and its removed a little bit of it but i'm looking for that little more va va voom with removing the surface rust -...
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    Audi A3 170 TDi Build Thread

    I thought it would be about time to put one of these up! Bought my Audi A3 Sportback 170 TDi last year and have loved it ever since. Few issues down the line but nothing which local mechanics and Audi couldn't fix! Since i have had the car it has so far had: custom remap to 200BHP and just...
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    Audi Phone Cradle - is it worth it?

    Hi All, Unsure if this has been covered on here but i am thinking of buying the Audi phone cradle as my dash already has the GSM prep kit pre-drilled into it. Was wondering exactly what you can do with it - stream music or is it just calls? Audi iPhone 5 cradle: Genuine Audi iPhone 5 Phone...