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Originally Posted by rallyejames
Ive still got the 80 and haven't sold it....
£50 to spend on it?!!! £1800 to date and I haven't even started underneath the car yet.
Car is being re loomed atm....after having to remove the dash due to complete electrical failure after only getting to drive the car for about an hour the day after purchase.
After removing the dash we were completely horrified to find what I can only describe as a ticking time bomb waiting to explode....and im not even exaggerating....bare live wires everywhere not insulated...ECU screwed into heater duct with wood screws......relays just floating around with bare spade connectors and so on......
Don't want to start a slagging war but im not even going to mention what unbelievable 'Bodges' I wound under the bonnet because I don't know who was responsible?
I have owned many vw and Audis and there is one lesson I have learnt in the last 12 months of owning this car.....don't ever buy a car on a "hunch" it really can turn around and bit you on the arse.
At least when and if I do come to sell it I know and will be happy to say the car will be safe and reliable and not being held together with 'Plastic milk bottle tops' 'plastic pens' and bits of 'wood'
that's no exaggeration either.
Like I said I can not emphasize anough that this was responsible by the previous owner..but whoever it was 'Free Barclays pens' to join vacuum hoses together and plastic milk bottle tops to hold coilpacks in!!!!! REALLY?!!!
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Sorry to hear this but i'm not surprised at all!
The car did look great in the pictures but pictures are just pictures. Obviously its easy to know now in hindsight about the level of incompetence but it's a shame we didn't know each other and we didn't speak because i would have put you off buying from the guy as i have personal reasons to dislike him intensely.
He contacted me through myself selling genuine mint very low mileage 7A 20V parts at fair prices that were way way cheaper than Audi prices and i had no problem shifting to other members over on the S2 forum and eBay about 18 months ago. When i replied to his requests for prices of stuff i had not listed he just became cocky and abusive saying my prices were too expensive,he just expected me to give the stuff away himself saying he threw away these parts only a few years earlier. More fool for him not thinking ahead.
His emails were very unsavoury to say the least,he even trolled on the open forum over it.The man is deluded as i had no problem selling the parts to shall we say the more exacting members who are looking for mint perfectly working stuff to compliment their cars that have graced magazine articles like Audi Driver for one. I have even given one or 2 parts away for certain members to help them get the perfect original NLA part for their RS2. I'm afraid Jolfa deals in the gutter and is best avoided at all costs.
