S2 avant

[John.]

Taking shape Mike

[Mikes2]

Looks great with all the correct early details, those 5 spokes look really good. Is it Panther black?

Yes - panther black mostly. Needs a good clean inside as well as outside.

[Mikes2]

The alloys got refurbished.

Before




After

[Thuppu]

Wow, nice, really stunning! Did you do those yourself?

[Spyform]

[Mikes2]

Wow, nice, really stunning! Did you do those yourself?

Unfortunately, I don't have the skills or the equipment to do that. I paid someone to diamond cut them

[Mikes2]

Now with 12 months MOT. No advisories

[newsh]

Yay! [emoji4]

[mr ed]

Nice one mike.i've enjoyed this thread.

[80Quattro]

Yes - panther black mostly. Needs a good clean inside as well as outside.

Same colour as mine. I think it was only available upto MY93 so there can't be many S2s. Your pictures are pretty accurate in showing the colour, it's more of a dark metallic grey than black, although mine always looks black in photos.

Good to hear it now has an MOT.

[Mikes2]

Getting deja vu here.

The clock doesn't work. it's totally dead. If you unplug the cluster and plug it back in you get numbers for a while but they fade away and it goes blank. The numbers that you do get are always 00:00 and they don't change

New ones are not available any more so 2nd hand was the only option

Some pics for reference during disassembly









I tried to reflow the bad solder joints on the top right of the board but it made no difference





Note that there are 2 versions of the clock and the screens are not interchangeable as the board uses a different design. The one pictured is a later type

[John.]

Timing belt changed today.

Also replaced the water pump. The original one from 1993 (LUK) was still in there.

Mike, did the Valeo pump have a metal impellor?

[Mikes2]

Yes it did.

[John.]

Thanks Mike, have a 7A pump to change soon........so I can ad Valeo to the list!

Hepu
Graf
Valeo

[PaulJ]

Car spotted ?

Mike, was that your car I seen in skidz in Falkirk last week, I asked Craig who's the audi was but he did not know
Paul