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cool. i'm joining your 170 appreciation society. it seems to get better and better. i like the s-tronic and paddles and as you say, thewallboy, living in london makes it make sense. almost 10,000 miles in and i'm averaging 49mpg and normally get around 55 on my motorway runs.

Freaky! I did exactly the same journey at the weekend and got 58.6mpg in my 170 diesel. Average speed only 47 though ... i've found that sticking between 75 and 80 seems to give the best results.

it blew out of the bottom of a citroen xsara on the m6 toll, bounced off the carriageway. i managed to miss the other bits of flying engine luckily. i'm going to only follow german cars for a while.

i'm well impressed too ... as it's my car! car now feels complete. total dream. and it's the car's duck (donation from embarrassed son). permatan ducky made it to the back seat and although he made it through the retrofit safe and sound, he's sadly currently covered in glass dust and flakes...

quick update on my original post ... thanks to you who pointed me in the right direction - thanks to d3fy, vagparts have located the missing retaining nut for me and have put it in the post. so i'll be removing the armrest and my custom-made nut creation in the next few days and putting the...

thanks, andy. as i suspected, i am missing a retaining nut which would fit into the recess i can feel underneath. i've managed to secure the bolt with a square nut and hex nut i have which fit pretty well. it feels completely solid for now - i'll see how it goes over the next few hundred miles...

the armrest for my a3 has arrived ... i have drills, hacksaws and a fine selection of tools ready to do the job - but one thing is confusing me: how exactly does it fix??! i have the armrest, a bolt and a car. the bolt goes through the armrest and then into a hex-shaped hole in the centre...

this isn't good news. my 170 has been faultless for the 2000 odd miles i've done so far. i'm about to embark on a mini-epic and do not want to lose all power at a crucial moment on the M1... to answer your question about the glowplug light, pjlarge, mine has never stayed on for more than about...

my engine cover's black and it's a sport.

spot on! the 170 is smoother so you don't realise you're pulling away in the same way that the 140 engine makes you really feel it. it's similar to the psychological difference being closer to the ground gives you: in my old spitfire where my **** was about 3 inches (ok, a little exaggerated)...

spot on! the 170 is smoother so you don't realise you're pulling away in the same way that the 140 engine makes you really feel it. it's similar to the psychological difference being closer to the ground gives you: in my old spitfire where my **** was about 3 inches (ok, a little exaggerated)...

the audi offering does really fall short of what could be done. but it suits me and like a lot of things you learn to live with it and make it work for your needs. for example, i like having my itunes on random anyway as i get bored of my music fairly quickly and so it's like having your ipod...

with the sd slots in the navplus, the track data is displayed on the nav screen which is a good bit of progress. does anyone have ipod+satnav and able to confirm if ipod displays track info on the screen? or is it just the disappointing track1 ... track2 etc.?

short answer ... you don't. it only uses playlists which have to be made before you plug it in (i'm only talking about the audi fit here so other solutions may be different). you can with an ipod make an on-the-go playlist though which is a half-solution. if you only made 4 playlists for the...

the nice thing about it when factory ordered is that it has its own section in the glovebox where it's solid and powered. (there's even an audi logo screen which appears on it although this struck me as a little stupid as you can't really see the screen unless you look at it carefully from an...

the 3dr a3 is a subtly muscular lump of a car and so the parabolics seemed to be the perfect partner. i think they'd work on the original tt too, but i don't imagine they'd be as well suited to any of the other audi models.

the parabolic ones are not the standard sport ones which i found not very very proportioned. a bit fat on the arms or something. interestingly, in all the audi promo stuff, the car is photographed with the wheels spinning to make the arms look slimmer. the parabolics are really simple and neat...

very good point about the depreciation, ben - i had forgotten that this also had been a deciding factor for my purchase. i wonder though how long it will be before audi goes the same way - there's a smell of golden goose killing with 900 A3s being set loose on the world on a daily basis...

have you ever been to copenhagen? if not, you must! and if you wait til i get there, you may be waiting a few years ... i have to learn danish first and it's not all that easy a language to get to grips with. it's so clean and neat and liberal and everyone is so good looking!! i don't know of...

i looked at the alfa gt. i think it's a nice looking car. but the interior is in a completely lower league. the touchy-feely experience is awful. stuff doesn't integrate as well or fit together all that neatly. and i think the person who invented silver plastic should be shot. my friend did...