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Well we know it's an engine seizure 😉

Hi mate, you are right with Mr Sinclair's Empire hahaha, I have basically done that today, took it for an 'Italian service' and both the warning lights are off the dashboard and the car is running smoothly, so I am assuming that it is fine for now anyway. Thank you very much for your help, much appreciated. Ryan.

I like the ‘more’ bit Steve! Kind regards, Gareth.

Hi Gareth, Cheers for the reply! Yeah, that's exactly what I've found. Thanks for sanity checking my thoughts! I didn't realise plastic welding was a thing, so cheers for opening my eyes to this. Will look into it, and definitely get in touch with a couple of local places. Sounds like it's certainly a workable option, and would remove the need to find a matching bumper! re: insurance - I know - I may or may not have had little bumps in the past that weren't notified, and covered out of my own pocket, but I have no idea what was going on in my head at the time of calling them this time 🤦‍♂️. Thanks for your time 🙂 Rich

Hey Gareth, Yes, they replaced the water pump and aux belt. From what i can gather, its a whole new engine, but i was curious if it would simply be the engine block itself, or other parts such as turbo, cat etc? I was initially told it was £11,000, then when i got a call back i was told it was upwards of £20,000. The tensioner was sent away to Audi technical for examination.

Thanks Steve Just hope it will help some people out.