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Hi Gareth 

thank you for your input

always interesting to get as many opinions as possible.

i am in fact a master mechanic by trade, so I won’t be going into buying a car totally without experience, however, having only owned BMW & Mercedes, it’s always good to have a heads up on anything specific to look for.

and whilst I agree with you in regards to FSH not being any kind of guarantee, irs better than NO/partial service history, 
at least the car has regularly visited an Audi dealer, however brief!

Wear & tear on a low mileage engine isn’t so much of a problem now with the high quality oils in use today - again, main dealers you would hope have used the correct grade! 

thanks again

Mark

Hi Steve 

thanks for that ~ good read. 
Interesting about the timing chain issues as low as 40k-60k, definitely makes me err towards low mileage with full Audi main dealer service cars

thanks again

mark 

Good afternoon everyone

I'm a new member, joined today, as I am in the process of buying my daughter a used A1 for her first car

I've got my orders - White S-Line 3 door with black wheels!

ideally I'd prefer to get her a 1.2 for insurance purposes - I'm not interested in diesels, but I'm open to the 1.4

not many around with black wheels so will likely get the wheels refurbed & powder coated in black

anything I need to look out for when looking at cars would be nice to know

I am a mechanic by trade, but, don't really want to be doing an in depth inspection on every car we look at

as I said, any info would be appreciated

Have A Good Day

Mark