8 Years Ago Today - Nostalgia Trip

[s2driveruk]

was she a 'racer' too per chance Alex?

[Error404]

fairly racey yes

[newsh]

John. Still lurk mate!!! See your coupes a beast - and the avant is coming on ;-)

Never new the mailing list, just probably th early days of the forum.

First garage meet must be about 6 years ago at Gregs dads...

My first meet was a December rolling road day at PTS? In Luton?

Remember that being the start of Dougs monster - he blew a spark plug on the way down and was trailered down or back.....

Even Remember Lee in his green avant with his monster stoppers!

Mik started the forum in July of 2003 IIRC, the Yahoo list was closed in September.

I remember that RR meet, I took the pic of Doug's car on the trailer

Mihnea fixed by low boost problem by plugging the WGFV back in

I had a misfire on the rollers and Martinjs lent me his plug leads.

[K Simmonds]

Its was Eight years ago this August that I purchsed my first Audi, a 10 valve NG engined FWD Coupe. It belonged to very good friend who had bumped it then couldn't afford to fix it. I got it for peanuts, straightened it out myself, loved the solid build quaility and torque from the five pot motor. I'd been a VW man up till that point, had a few MK II GTi's, Scirocco's, Corrados etc over the years but I prefered the Audi. Funily enough I'd always wanted an S2 Coupe ever since I found out about them some time around 1995, in fact I nearly bought one instead of a Corrado VR6 when looking for a cat D project car, that would have been the year 2000.

Had a couple of 80 saloons and a ratty MK II GTi since but I've still got that first Coupe now, it's done well over 220K miles and still runs/drives perfectly. It was due to be broken at the start of this month, I've already sold the seats, doorcards, carpets ec and am driving the old girl round stripped out. However my replacement daily driver MK II 16V GTi is not yet ready so it's had a reprive. I'm going to make it as light as possiable, sunroof out the lot!!! Fit Saloon head lights and front bumper along with a set of 195/60/15 snow tyres all of which I have knocking about and it use through the coming harsh winter without having to be too bothered about having a bump. Sould be good fun to boot!!!:

[martinjs]

The yahoo group, haha, that brings back memories. I bought my s2 in august 2002 and took it on track at adi in october (the first adi i believe) it was seriously underpowered) i knew it when i bought it, was confident it was an easy fix (turned out to be a split accordian hose)
You dont know how easy you have it nowadays, back then fitting an aftermarket dump valve or air filter was a big deal, and if you wanted a remap you had 2 choices, £700 at QST or AMD.
We've come a long way since then, hybrid turbo's, big ic's, porsche brakes, manifolds, launch control, polly bushes etc, all this didnt exist back then, jesus i feel old.
Since then, yes Gregs garage meets were the best meets ive been to, also monday afternoon mapping with Mihnea down the A1, "redline in fifth please...."

[s2driveruk]

very true Martin, a t'internet search for audi s2 returned pretty much nothing either. Is fantastic that so much is now visible/searchable on the car and a load of owners are connected I still think the best car round ADI was that 100 with the diff/box whine you could hear for the entire lap

[Fat Audi 80]

Wow. I always thought I was a bit late to the party, but having joined in Jan 2004 and bought my S2 in the same year, it appears that I was in fact fashionably late.

On a serious note, I don't think anyone here would have been able to buy, run, maintain, modify and continue to own their S2's if it had not been for the collective knowledge and ingenuity of the majority of the members on here. The sheer volume of quality data on these cars stored here, has saved many owners a lot of time and money, but more importantly made owning an S2 a real joy.

Long may it continue.

[Greg_S]

The yahoo group takes me back a few years too. Ive been trying to get hold of Mik, but lost his contact details if anyone has them??

8 years ago I had the S2 for about 1 year by then after rebuilding the engine the first time around and being in touch with Mihnea, Doug etc through the forum I arranged the PTS RR meet and put up Mhinea and a few others at my mums place at the time while we had the cars mapped. 5th gear and floor it was definitely order of the day then.

Also the Garage meets over at my dads and the first of the Billing events, I still remember Nick doing donuts at about 3 am while we were there. 8 Years on and things have changed quite a bit, I still have the S2 though, albeit going for another engine rebuild now. Good to see Dean back on the forum, saw your forum handle come up and that was a bit of a blast from the past!

[s2driveruk]

I still remember Dean's snoring at that pub/hotel we all went to after one of the garage meets when it was really foggy

[Greg_S]

Yeah, remember going out in gordons RS4 in that and he wasnt hanging about!

[pixsaudisex2]

Wow. I always thought I was a bit late to the party, but having joined in Jan 2004 and bought my S2 in the same year, it appears that I was in fact fashionably late.

On a serious note, I don't think anyone here would have been able to buy, run, maintain, modify and continue to own their S2's if it had not been for the collective knowledge and ingenuity of the majority of the members on here. The sheer volume of quality data on these cars stored here, has saved many owners a lot of time and money, but more importantly made owning an S2 a real joy.

Long may it continue.

I agree it was 2004 i joined also but after getting my car i found this place.
An like you say i imagine if it was not for this place and Sal an Quattro corner it would have gone a long time ago..
An blooming hell has this place changed in that time.. Although i must say at least one thing has stayed the same the fact the estate looks so much better than the coupe..

[jubjub]

I still remember Dean's snoring at that pub/hotel we all went to after one of the garage meets when it was really foggy

Dean Snoring. Me? No. Never. Never heard a peep that night

[jubjub]

The yahoo group takes me back a few years too. Ive been trying to get hold of Mik, but lost his contact details if anyone has them??

8 years ago I had the S2 for about 1 year by then after rebuilding the engine the first time around and being in touch with Mihnea, Doug etc through the forum I arranged the PTS RR meet and put up Mhinea and a few others at my mums place at the time while we had the cars mapped. 5th gear and floor it was definitely order of the day then.

Also the Garage meets over at my dads and the first of the Billing events, I still remember Nick doing donuts at about 3 am while we were there. 8 Years on and things have changed quite a bit, I still have the S2 though, albeit going for another engine rebuild now. Good to see Dean back on the forum, saw your forum handle come up and that was a bit of a blast from the past!

Greg mate.

Still lurk all the ime but dont post that much...


Attempted to buy a few Rs's/S's over the past couple of years but not to be.
Was tempted with Habibs beasty at one point..

My time will come again.

[s2driveruk]

Dean Snoring. Me? No. Never. Never heard a peep that night

there'll be some seismic monitoring kit somewhere that picked it up Actually can't believe how long ago that was...just after my son was born i think

[S2central.net]

Ahh the garage meets - pure quality... way too much spanners, comedy, alcohol and waaay too many bodies littering the floor afterwards. I lived in MK way back then and was just getting my head inside the mysterious ECU. Our eldest was only a toddler then - hard to believe.

The yahoo list - wow that is a bit of history.

There are some seriously high quality people on the forum - the S2 / RS2 continues to attract them by en large, but we have lost a few souls along the way - which is a great shame.

I often wonder if the S3, S5 or S8 owners have as much fun as we do here !