Did a bit of shopping today... No pics yet, but its a new mule for daily duties that will let me get the S2 into my garage for much long overdue TLC.
Its an MY92 80 quattro sedan - V6 engine - quite a rare beast in its own right. I couldn't bring myself to buy just any old cheap runabout - Audi is the only thing I know and I needed something trusty and robust enough with 4 doors with some sort of character about it. I missed it 1st time round, but the current owner (gunman) kindly let me know the car was up for sale and gave me 1st dibs. He had made a nice job on refurbing the alloys, replacing both lambda probes and a problematic hall effect sensor.
It has a few niggles as you'd expect of any old car, but it only has 118k miles. Paint is great (bar a few spots of note) - pretty sure she is Tornado Red, but not checked yet. Everything works except the central locking and the water temp gauge (known faulty sensor). The ECU singularly fails to talk to anything which is a bit annoying, but that'll just be a wiring fault.
It has the sport suspension, so drives rather well - softer sprung than an S2 of coure, but its nice to have dampers that work. Brakes a bit soft (prolly old fluid or tired servo)... And there is knock at rear left corner - likely ARB link. Rear discs & pads need changed.
There is hesitation from low revs at high load sometimes - probably MAF or injector related but it's OK to drive... Will get that sorted once the ECU starts talking.
Tax & MOT runs to September so it buys me some time and puts less stress and strain on the old S2.
Makes a rather nice burble - unexpected really - it can be legally decatted as well which I'll get round too.
I doubt its making full stock power at 180bhp - so the performance is far from S2 levels - however it seems a fine, solid and original car and I hope it serves me well.
Its an MY92 80 quattro sedan - V6 engine - quite a rare beast in its own right. I couldn't bring myself to buy just any old cheap runabout - Audi is the only thing I know and I needed something trusty and robust enough with 4 doors with some sort of character about it. I missed it 1st time round, but the current owner (gunman) kindly let me know the car was up for sale and gave me 1st dibs. He had made a nice job on refurbing the alloys, replacing both lambda probes and a problematic hall effect sensor.
It has a few niggles as you'd expect of any old car, but it only has 118k miles. Paint is great (bar a few spots of note) - pretty sure she is Tornado Red, but not checked yet. Everything works except the central locking and the water temp gauge (known faulty sensor). The ECU singularly fails to talk to anything which is a bit annoying, but that'll just be a wiring fault.
It has the sport suspension, so drives rather well - softer sprung than an S2 of coure, but its nice to have dampers that work. Brakes a bit soft (prolly old fluid or tired servo)... And there is knock at rear left corner - likely ARB link. Rear discs & pads need changed.
There is hesitation from low revs at high load sometimes - probably MAF or injector related but it's OK to drive... Will get that sorted once the ECU starts talking.
Tax & MOT runs to September so it buys me some time and puts less stress and strain on the old S2.
Makes a rather nice burble - unexpected really - it can be legally decatted as well which I'll get round too.
I doubt its making full stock power at 180bhp - so the performance is far from S2 levels - however it seems a fine, solid and original car and I hope it serves me well.
shame really as I have nearly everything to do it minus the block.
. Kinda sorry to see her go but glad she'll be in the hands of someone who can sort out the wee niggles.
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