DanB

Tonight's fun job. 

Lent the car to a mate for a few days and he told me the fans weren't working so he had fun deicing it 🙈

Sure enough fans were dead. 

Checked fuse all OK, then set about checking the fan. 

Glovebox out, fan out. Was a bit stiff so spun by hand and lubed, refitted and boom, all working 👍🏻

Went to shut the bonnet happy with myself and it won't close, just bounces on the latch. 

Sake 

11 minutes ago, Steve Q said:

Sorry to hear you've lost interest. It can often happen when lots of faults occur in a short time. I had that with a Volvo 940. 

The loss of interest is through never using it. 

My sister will be moving back shortly I think so it'll be back on daily duties for her 

Realised the rear passenger window had dropped when driving the car and heard the noise. 

Alarm was only going off in bad weather. Removed the air freshener after reading these sometimes set car alarms off, alarm stopped going off. 

Got window sorted and alarm never gone off since 

Only remembered this thread after getting an e-mail ping for someone replying to an old post 😄

Started a new job in Feb with a company car so the A3 is only being used by my mum to ferry daughter around a couple of days a week.

• Replaced the starter motor and fitted a bigger battery to cure the hot start issue.
• Rear wiper still not working, probs should get the motor replaced
• Glovebox still broken, probs should get the hinge replaced
• Trim still peeling, probs should paint/wrap to tidy them up
• Rear light got a bit of water inside, probs should replace/upgrade for facelift lights

Is it obvious I've lost interest? Do still love driving it when I get the chance though.

May become surplus to requirements soon, but may still keep hold of it and sort some bits out

It turned out the back window reg had failed so the window was ever so slightly down, meaning a draft was getting in and disturbing the air freshener round the mirror, which then set the motion sensors off 🙈

Finally have 4 fully working windows 

Rear wiper seems to have totally packed in now. Started coming on and off whenever it felt like it, then went through a phase where I could hear the motor working with no arm movement before fully giving up the ghost. But I've spent enough on it for now so that can wait 🤣

Having hacked round in this for 3 months, it was needing a clean

Starting a new job shortly that comes with a car which will slow down progress on this I imagine. More a case of upgrade stuff as and when it breaks 🤣

Hi All

Got the Audi Navigation stereo with 6 disc changer in the glovebox.

6 disc changer accepts disks but can't get them to play through the stereo. Any ideas?

Plays a CD fine if inserted in the top of the stereo

Ordered a new rear passenger window reg to replace the broken one and also ordered a new driver door window reg as the anti pinch whatever is a bit iffy where its obviously gunked up inside so thinks something is stuck in the window when trying to go up on one click. Once they're sorted, I'm still left with

• Broken glovebox hinge
• Saggy rear wiper
• Flaky trim
• Meh floormats

Then while I'm not planning on "modifying" it as such, hopefully get round to:

• LED interior bulbs
• Remap
• Stereo upgrade, probs just to the Audi Navigation Plus for OEM look 

Basically like a treasure hunt. 

You're given a list of say 50 grid references, all scoring a different number of points and some only being available at certain times. 

You then plan which points you're going to go for in the permitted time to score as many points as possible and get back to the finish on time. 

Basically, ragging it round the Manx roads in the middle of the night and then having pie and chips in a pub 🤣

Another problem

Rear passenger window now doesn't want to go up. Suspect regulator or something is gunked up and when I pulled the window back up by hand, it's covered in gunge 🙈

On a positive note, used the car for a my first ever scatter rally last weekend and didn't come last! Were the only crew there without a cage or a sump guard or spot lights, but I bet nobody else had heated seats and rear isofix 🤣

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Car-Front-Center-Console-Armrest-Lid-Latch-Clip-Replacement-for-Audi-A3-O2V9-/203109393291?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l6249&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0

Armrest clip arrived from China 

Half way through trying to fit it, started to wish I'd just bought the complete armrest 😂

Eventually got it in and back in the car. Can understand why these are a common issue as they just feel flimsy. 

Yep checked all the wires for corrosion and was pretty much nothing to see. 

I'll see how battery comes on and it it's still iffy try a new one 

Evening 

My alarm keeps going off (seemingly, only at night) and I'm struggling to find help on the cause. 

I've previously had the issue with the rear washer jet hose popping off, giving me the boot open warning and the hazards not flashing when trying to lock the car which I sorted. 

However, this time everything in the boot is dry, the pipe isn't leaking, I'm getting no warning about the boot being open and the hazards flash when I lock it but its started. 

I did find a couple of threads about it being caused by the battery starting to die but they all get hijacked by people talking about water in the boot 🤣

Battery reading between 13.6-13.8v when I'd expect it to be low 14s, so I've put it on my reconditioner overnight to see if I can get it up to where it should be, but if this doesn't work, what else could it be? 

New rear passenger door lock fitted and now working again perfectly. 

Lad only charged me £20 to fit too which I'm more than happy with 👍🏻

A3s love "Common faults" don't they 🤣🤣

Drive home today and I was getting the boot open warning and then my alarm kept going off after locking the car. 

Quick Google and a YouTube video led me to the problem. 

Thankfully terminals on the switch didn't look too bad, but gave them a blast of acf50 to clean up any corrosion and then WD40 to seal and put the washer pipe back on nice and tight (glad it wasn't split) 

Let's see how long this fix lasts 

Random trim piece been rattling round in the arm rest since I bought the car. 

Thought I'd actually Google the part number to find out what it was. Totally unnoticeable and was more annoying not knowing what it was than it not being fitted 🤣

Made a few purchases. 

Hoping the replacement door lock mechanism cures my issue. Shame it's winter and I don't have chance to sort it myself so tasking my friendly local auto electrical guy with the job

1 hour ago, Steve Q said:

Hey Dan yep it's still a thing. Got another member with an ongoing A4 cab project 🙂 looks like you've got a nice a3 👍

Cheers 

Annoyingly my door "fix" has already stopped working so may need to dig deeper. Not great timing with the clocks going back 😂

Another niggle detected.

Suddenly the rear passenger door has only been unlocking when it felt like it, not ideal when the cars purpose is ferrying the little one round.

Would open fine from the inside or when you press the door unlock button in the car, but not always on the fob. 

Quick google told me it's a common fault where the mechanism just gets gunged up over time so to either blast everything with WD40 or remove the door card and give everything inside a good clean up. Thankfully, the former seemed to do the trick 👍

Wonder if this will also work on the boot which seems to need a few clicks on the fob to unlock

Easy job done

Are forum project threads still a thing? If not, they need bringing back 😁

Picked this up couple of days back

2007 S-Line Auto 2.0 TDI (My checks suggest 140 but not sure if PD or CR, however, insurers got 170 from their system)

Few little niggles to sort out but the plan is just to sort those out, get it mapped and run it til it dies.

• Sometimes funny starting when hot, dies but then starts up fine on 2nd attempt - suspect starter motor needs replaced?
• Spare key fob battery flat
• Armrest clip/latch missing
• Glovebox broken
• Rear wiper a bit saggy so touching the bootlid
• Mats a bit tacky
• Few bits of paint flake on the door trim

I'm sure I'll find more things that annoy me the more I use it

Facebook groups are ok but cant beat a decent forum

Picked up an A3 a couple of days ago as I was on the hunt for cheap automatic that my mum could use when she's on Nan duties as her iQ whilst perfect for her, was a struggle getting the little one and her pushchair in 😅

Also a handy runaround for me if the wife's using her car and I don't fancy getting mine out the garage. My van used to be ideal but looking to swap that for a lwb crafter at some point and they arent fun parking in Tesco