jinjur
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- Clio 172
Hi squad,
Sorted my mum out with a lovely wee Audi A1 sport back a year ago now from Lakeland Audi (worth it for the drive alone) and it has just come out of Audi Belfast only needing a brake fluid change.
They did however delightfully advise me that the car is now due its timing belt done and that comes at a delicious sum of 600 smackers. I actually sharted a little when she told me that but we all had masks on so it was undetected.
The car has a 2 year Audi warranty and I will likely extend that for her as the car only has 30K on it so most certainly don't want to do anything to affect that.
My question is, am I really stuck with dealership work on this one?
I had a look myself thinking that I could do it using genuine Audi stuff but then I saw that it looks to have variable cam timing on both cams so completely tapped out of that one. Clio 172 belts are bad enough with variable cam timing on one side ffs.
As a side note, I thought I was getting her the sensible 1.4 TFSI model but "accidentally" got her the 140BHP COD one and I am hugely surprised at the way that little thing shifts all while returning unreal economy. Wouldn't half mind seeing how the S1 shifts.
J
Sorted my mum out with a lovely wee Audi A1 sport back a year ago now from Lakeland Audi (worth it for the drive alone) and it has just come out of Audi Belfast only needing a brake fluid change.
They did however delightfully advise me that the car is now due its timing belt done and that comes at a delicious sum of 600 smackers. I actually sharted a little when she told me that but we all had masks on so it was undetected.
The car has a 2 year Audi warranty and I will likely extend that for her as the car only has 30K on it so most certainly don't want to do anything to affect that.
My question is, am I really stuck with dealership work on this one?
I had a look myself thinking that I could do it using genuine Audi stuff but then I saw that it looks to have variable cam timing on both cams so completely tapped out of that one. Clio 172 belts are bad enough with variable cam timing on one side ffs.
As a side note, I thought I was getting her the sensible 1.4 TFSI model but "accidentally" got her the 140BHP COD one and I am hugely surprised at the way that little thing shifts all while returning unreal economy. Wouldn't half mind seeing how the S1 shifts.
J
