Just bought this for £400 with broken gearbox.


Filled the gearbox from the trans cooler as the sump plug was rusted solid. 


Buy one of these for filling gearboxes they really work a treat. I used Dexron 2 atm fluid, Seems to run fine on 13 liters  

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That's an unusual colour for an a8 Craig! What spec is it? 

Full leathers with sat nav, Electric everything, Can't seem to find heated seat buttons tho but it has everything else fitted to it. 

Sat nav system keeps crashing tho, Still has old 2000/2001 map hard disk in it

You got a nice spec :) 

can't really help with the sat nav I'm afraid. I wonder if it's due to the age of the disc? 

Cheers Steve :D 

Got the sat nav sorted, Turns out the battery was causing issues and crashing the sat nav system so I swapped it for a 075 battery just for the now untill I can get another 095 type battery for it.  

Hats off to you mate, a bargain fast car that you have sorted for pennies. Result.👍

Just a few issues to sort still, Brake wear sensor is dominating everything and abs light is on all the time and ball joints need replacing.

27 minutes ago, Craig_Anderson said:

Cheers Steve :D 

Got the sat nav sorted, Turns out the battery was causing issues and crashing the sat nav system so I swapped it for a 075 battery just for the now untill I can get another 095 type battery for it.  

Your most welcome :) 

thats great! It's nice when it's an easy fix! ;) but to be fair you'll find a lot of electrical gremlins can be traced back to weak or duff batteries! 

8 minutes ago, Craig_Anderson said:

Just a few issues to sort still, Brake wear sensor is dominating everything and abs light is on all the time and ball joints need replacing.

The problem with older Audis is that they can be expensive to fix in terms of how often they go wrong. I speak from experience here. To be fair though the balljoints army a big surprise to me as the a8 is a big car! 

Seems like you're working through the issues Craig...and nice to see an old warhorse like that being revived, all too easy nowadays to scrap an oldie that needs work doing.