Shedlife! Here we go!
Discussion
My daily commute involves a long stretch of the hideous M62 motorway, which is currently clogged up with 20 miles of contraflow, resulting in continual traffic jams and increasing my commute to around an hour and twenty minutes each way.
This is depressing. It is even more depressing being sat in that in my other car (the Porsche 911, read about it here) which should really be associated with fun and enjoyment, not frustration and misery. Something had to be done, so I decided that it was time to take up the bangernomics ethos and enter the world of ‘shedding’.
Sheding, as I understand it, means buying a very cheap car to do the daily trudge, whose sole objective is to get you through the soleless miles which you really don’t want to be doing.
My budget was £800 but I didn’t really want to spend that much if I could help it. As cheap as possible was the aim. I was looking at Mondeo’s as I quite like newer shape but it was only a half-hearted search as I’ve too much going on at the moment and time is very limited. Handily though, my brother-in-law had just bought a new Audi A4 and was about to put his old one up for sale. A 1997 1.8 Petrol in burnt Orange. “You can have it for £300 if you want it”, he suggested. This was met with approval from my good lady and the deal was done. The car needed a few bits sorting out, which I said I’d pay for if he could fit them (he is a mechanic). So the car had new spark plugs, new rear disks and pads and a few other things that I’ve forgotten.
In terms of provenance,it has 156,000 miles since its origin, but comes with electric everything, climate control with cold air conditioning, remote central locking and a CD player. It has a few months tax and 12 months test, recent new tyres and service and a stainless steel exhaust. And it feels like a 90’s car; the seats are small and the headrests only serve to prevent whiplash in your upper back – and it has that old-car smell. But it all adds to the character. It still looks good and has a private number plate which disguises its age. It also drives well, but there is a small coolant leak and the engine doesn’t like to be rushed; there is a notable dip in acceleration up to two thousand revs and you cannot get it to move until after that rev range. I knew this when I bought it though, so no big deal. Once it is up to temperature everything behaves itself. Great news.
Shedding also has many unforeseen plus sides. The first being that you feel so much happier spending just a fraction of the cost of a new car. Buying a car that you don’t really care about brings with it a huge amount of unexpected pleasure. For example the first day I bought the car, I had to call at the supermarket on the way home, and there was a space available right at the front of the car park. Never has one been so excited at the prospect of being able to park somewhere so close to my destination and be completely at ease with the world of selfishness that surrounds us these days. Chancing a car park ding on my motor is fine-and-dandy in the Shed. It already has several war wounds over the years from light scratches to a small dent in the front wing, a couple of door-dings will be barely noticeable.
Then there is the key turning gamble. Will it start or won’t it? Will the engine just refuse to work part way through a journey? Who knows. This is the fun of shedding, because with such a low price tag after a few months of ownership the car would become almost disposable.
Having said that, I don’t want to jinx it as I’m already becoming quite attached to my Orange Audi and so it was treated to a good clean at the weekend. Six minutes flat of glorious wash and wipe, a record for car cleaning here. The windows needed a good sorting though as they were filthy, so I spent 20 minutes getting these spick-and-span. Worthwhile as the car will be used primarily for motorways and I need to be able to see.
So, that’s the lengthy introduction to my initiation with Shedlife and still hard to believe that I bought an entire car for less than the price of one tyre for the Porsche. Total cost so far £400 plus £87 for 3 months insurance and as this is our third car, I guess that means I’ve formed the start of a ‘collection’ too. Happy days indeed.
Day Two. Fail.
I set off on the first work-journey using the Audi shed and regrettably it failed me. The indicators wouldn’t work and neither would the wipers, the latter being an essential requirement in 2012’s British summer. I did a u-turn back home and parked the car up. Except that I couldn’t get the key out of the ruddy lock. It was stuck fast in the ignition and wouldn’t budge. I tried to restart the car and the ignition turned and fired the engine, but wouldn’t ‘catch’ meaning the key went straight back down to the off position.
Not a great start. A call was put into my bro-in-law who promptly disassembled the steering column that evening and found the issue with the ignition switch. New one ordered, the car was back on the road again a couple of days later.
No problems since and I’ve used it a couple of times. I like my shed. The big test will be next week when it commences commuter duties. Fingers crossed everyone.
This is depressing. It is even more depressing being sat in that in my other car (the Porsche 911, read about it here) which should really be associated with fun and enjoyment, not frustration and misery. Something had to be done, so I decided that it was time to take up the bangernomics ethos and enter the world of ‘shedding’.
Sheding, as I understand it, means buying a very cheap car to do the daily trudge, whose sole objective is to get you through the soleless miles which you really don’t want to be doing.
My budget was £800 but I didn’t really want to spend that much if I could help it. As cheap as possible was the aim. I was looking at Mondeo’s as I quite like newer shape but it was only a half-hearted search as I’ve too much going on at the moment and time is very limited. Handily though, my brother-in-law had just bought a new Audi A4 and was about to put his old one up for sale. A 1997 1.8 Petrol in burnt Orange. “You can have it for £300 if you want it”, he suggested. This was met with approval from my good lady and the deal was done. The car needed a few bits sorting out, which I said I’d pay for if he could fit them (he is a mechanic). So the car had new spark plugs, new rear disks and pads and a few other things that I’ve forgotten.
In terms of provenance,it has 156,000 miles since its origin, but comes with electric everything, climate control with cold air conditioning, remote central locking and a CD player. It has a few months tax and 12 months test, recent new tyres and service and a stainless steel exhaust. And it feels like a 90’s car; the seats are small and the headrests only serve to prevent whiplash in your upper back – and it has that old-car smell. But it all adds to the character. It still looks good and has a private number plate which disguises its age. It also drives well, but there is a small coolant leak and the engine doesn’t like to be rushed; there is a notable dip in acceleration up to two thousand revs and you cannot get it to move until after that rev range. I knew this when I bought it though, so no big deal. Once it is up to temperature everything behaves itself. Great news.
Shedding also has many unforeseen plus sides. The first being that you feel so much happier spending just a fraction of the cost of a new car. Buying a car that you don’t really care about brings with it a huge amount of unexpected pleasure. For example the first day I bought the car, I had to call at the supermarket on the way home, and there was a space available right at the front of the car park. Never has one been so excited at the prospect of being able to park somewhere so close to my destination and be completely at ease with the world of selfishness that surrounds us these days. Chancing a car park ding on my motor is fine-and-dandy in the Shed. It already has several war wounds over the years from light scratches to a small dent in the front wing, a couple of door-dings will be barely noticeable.
Then there is the key turning gamble. Will it start or won’t it? Will the engine just refuse to work part way through a journey? Who knows. This is the fun of shedding, because with such a low price tag after a few months of ownership the car would become almost disposable.
Having said that, I don’t want to jinx it as I’m already becoming quite attached to my Orange Audi and so it was treated to a good clean at the weekend. Six minutes flat of glorious wash and wipe, a record for car cleaning here. The windows needed a good sorting though as they were filthy, so I spent 20 minutes getting these spick-and-span. Worthwhile as the car will be used primarily for motorways and I need to be able to see.
So, that’s the lengthy introduction to my initiation with Shedlife and still hard to believe that I bought an entire car for less than the price of one tyre for the Porsche. Total cost so far £400 plus £87 for 3 months insurance and as this is our third car, I guess that means I’ve formed the start of a ‘collection’ too. Happy days indeed.
Day Two. Fail.
I set off on the first work-journey using the Audi shed and regrettably it failed me. The indicators wouldn’t work and neither would the wipers, the latter being an essential requirement in 2012’s British summer. I did a u-turn back home and parked the car up. Except that I couldn’t get the key out of the ruddy lock. It was stuck fast in the ignition and wouldn’t budge. I tried to restart the car and the ignition turned and fired the engine, but wouldn’t ‘catch’ meaning the key went straight back down to the off position.
Not a great start. A call was put into my bro-in-law who promptly disassembled the steering column that evening and found the issue with the ignition switch. New one ordered, the car was back on the road again a couple of days later.
No problems since and I’ve used it a couple of times. I like my shed. The big test will be next week when it commences commuter duties. Fingers crossed everyone.
Edited by Paul O on Tuesday 30th October 12:07
Next update (I wrote the first one above a couple of weeks ago)...
July 2012: Week One! Success!
Now finally on the road after the debacle with the ignition switch and the Audi is behaving with impeccable manners.
When running from cold, keeping the acceleration above 2,000 revs all is well. A few miles into the motorway drive, the car got up to temperature. The engine note changed to more of a calm, confident rumble that you'd associate with any modern motorway mile-muncher.
The gear changes were smooth and it was, well, very nice to drive. It inspired confidence to the point that I actually relaxed into the drive and started to enjoy it.
After the recent ignition disaster though, the battery had been removed so the radio needed a code. Happily, I have the code. Regrettably, I didn't have the instruction on how to enter the code.
My bro-in-law did tell me what to do, but I'd forgotten and he was now on holiday. A call to the internet was required, which provided me with lots of false and inaccurate information.
Eventually, through pressing lots of random buttons I found the combo that allows code entry. For reference, with "Safe" lit up on the display, you press and hold "TP" and (the button below TP).
Code entered, the radio sprung back to life and I now had musical choonage for the journey home.
The Shed has now been my faithful daily companion for a couple of weeks. The motorway journeys have provided ample charge into the battery and it starts with confidence and once to temperature, the acceleration problems disappear.
I still haven't got complete trust to fill the car with a full tank of fuel, but I was confident enough to commit £40 of unleaded at the petrol station last week. It's record so far is starting to give me the increasing assurance that I need to ultimately come to rely on it without trepidation that inevitably still creeps into the thought process in the morning.
Long may it continue!
July 2012: Week One! Success!
Now finally on the road after the debacle with the ignition switch and the Audi is behaving with impeccable manners.
When running from cold, keeping the acceleration above 2,000 revs all is well. A few miles into the motorway drive, the car got up to temperature. The engine note changed to more of a calm, confident rumble that you'd associate with any modern motorway mile-muncher.
The gear changes were smooth and it was, well, very nice to drive. It inspired confidence to the point that I actually relaxed into the drive and started to enjoy it.
After the recent ignition disaster though, the battery had been removed so the radio needed a code. Happily, I have the code. Regrettably, I didn't have the instruction on how to enter the code.
My bro-in-law did tell me what to do, but I'd forgotten and he was now on holiday. A call to the internet was required, which provided me with lots of false and inaccurate information.
Eventually, through pressing lots of random buttons I found the combo that allows code entry. For reference, with "Safe" lit up on the display, you press and hold "TP" and (the button below TP).
Code entered, the radio sprung back to life and I now had musical choonage for the journey home.
The Shed has now been my faithful daily companion for a couple of weeks. The motorway journeys have provided ample charge into the battery and it starts with confidence and once to temperature, the acceleration problems disappear.
I still haven't got complete trust to fill the car with a full tank of fuel, but I was confident enough to commit £40 of unleaded at the petrol station last week. It's record so far is starting to give me the increasing assurance that I need to ultimately come to rely on it without trepidation that inevitably still creeps into the thought process in the morning.
Long may it continue!
Welcome to the world of shedding. I've been I devotee to the religion for a few years now and I'm not doing bad. I would suggest you keep an eye out for your next shed though, you may find something better/more reliable before this one lets you down. Or this one might just go on forever. Today my £401 R-reg Alfa 155 just passed its MOT first time under the stewardship of my father-in-law - we've been running it for 2 years between us.
Month 1 - Steady away.
I am now one month into shedding and things have gone pretty well so far. The car is used for daily work-duties, with a 60 mile round trip on the days when I need to be present in the office.
I have been regularly checking the status of the Audi's coolant leak and it duly required a top up a couple of weeks ago. Having done this now a couple of times - and thereby improving my mechanic-like ability ten-fold, (removing coolant lid, filling up bottle, replacing said lid and securing tightly) I'm feeling more confident with the car. So confident, that it had an extra £40 of fuel put in, taking it to three-quarters of a tank full. Now that's commitment.
For extra coolant top-ups, I have a 2-litre lemonade bottle. The contents have been replaced with the finest of tap water for the summer months. This bottle lives in the car and is ready and waiting to top up on demand.
There is also a slow puncture on one of the tyres, so a call to the petrol station to fill that up was required.
Costs to date: 1 litre of council pop and fifty pence-worth of air.
I am now one month into shedding and things have gone pretty well so far. The car is used for daily work-duties, with a 60 mile round trip on the days when I need to be present in the office.
I have been regularly checking the status of the Audi's coolant leak and it duly required a top up a couple of weeks ago. Having done this now a couple of times - and thereby improving my mechanic-like ability ten-fold, (removing coolant lid, filling up bottle, replacing said lid and securing tightly) I'm feeling more confident with the car. So confident, that it had an extra £40 of fuel put in, taking it to three-quarters of a tank full. Now that's commitment.
For extra coolant top-ups, I have a 2-litre lemonade bottle. The contents have been replaced with the finest of tap water for the summer months. This bottle lives in the car and is ready and waiting to top up on demand.
There is also a slow puncture on one of the tyres, so a call to the petrol station to fill that up was required.
Costs to date: 1 litre of council pop and fifty pence-worth of air.
Edited by Paul O on Tuesday 14th August 13:56
Paul O said:
Month 1 - Steady away.
I am now one month into shedding and things have gone pretty well so far. The car is used for daily work-duties, with a 60 mile round trip on the days when I need to be present in the office.
I have been regularly checking the status of the Audi's coolant leak and it duly required a top up a couple of weeks ago. Having done this now a couple of times - and thereby improving my mechanic-like ability ten-fold, (removing coolant lid, filling up bottle, replacing said lid and securing tightly) I'm feeling more confident with the car. So confident, that it had an extra £40 of fuel put in, taking it to three-quarters of a tank full. Now that's commitment.
For extra coolant top-ups, I have a 2-litre lemonade bottle. The contents have been replaced with the finest of tap water for the summer months. This bottle lives in the car and is ready and waiting to top up on demand.
There is also a slow puncture on one of the tyres, so a call to the petrol station to fill that up was required.
Costs to date: 1 litre of council pop and fifty pence-worth of air.
Doesn't antifreeze also help stop the car overheating in summer? I know you're running on a shoe-string, but it might be worth investing in a big container of cheepo coolant from ChAvSDA. (Cheapest place I could find it! Oh and they do an expensive one, but ignore that one.) Or why not chuck some Radseal or similar in. I've always been suspicious of the stuff, but it seemed to do the trick on my old sheddy Freelander. I am now one month into shedding and things have gone pretty well so far. The car is used for daily work-duties, with a 60 mile round trip on the days when I need to be present in the office.
I have been regularly checking the status of the Audi's coolant leak and it duly required a top up a couple of weeks ago. Having done this now a couple of times - and thereby improving my mechanic-like ability ten-fold, (removing coolant lid, filling up bottle, replacing said lid and securing tightly) I'm feeling more confident with the car. So confident, that it had an extra £40 of fuel put in, taking it to three-quarters of a tank full. Now that's commitment.
For extra coolant top-ups, I have a 2-litre lemonade bottle. The contents have been replaced with the finest of tap water for the summer months. This bottle lives in the car and is ready and waiting to top up on demand.
There is also a slow puncture on one of the tyres, so a call to the petrol station to fill that up was required.
Costs to date: 1 litre of council pop and fifty pence-worth of air.
Update
It's been a few months since my last post and I've hit 159,000 miles of M62 to-and-fro with lots of M62 stoppage and startage during every outing. My journey is consumed by the enforced 50mph speed limit currently and almost every day the motorway a god awful nightmare. This made me wonder what the point of Active Traffic Management is. The idea of ATM is that traffic speeds are reduced at busy times, thereby keeping a constant, steady flow of traffic. Anyone who uses the M62 will know that the current enforced 50mph is anything but constant and most of the time those 50mph signs are just a pipedream target that you can only wish to come close to. Waste of money then? We'll see.
Back to the Audi, I took Wormburners advice and, with a planned work trip further afield to Cheshire I had a little chat with my Shed. I promised Audi a full tank of fuel if it delivered me there and back safe and sound without problem. It indeed did this – despite an extra dose of traffic hell from all the gods of rush hour, coupled with a sprinkling of lane closures and dash of bad weather. Not a hitch of a problem from happy Shed though!
Audi received a full tank of fuel and a lot of confidence from me.
It has also had its second bath – and I'll provide it with a third in a few weeks time.
Emeye had a good point with the Anti Freeze. I took a trip to Asda and a £5 bottle now travels on the back seat with my water bottle, being used intermittently to stop the rads freezing.
Tax was due last month too - I took 6 months out (£110, I think). I know half-year purchases are a false economy, but it 'felt' cheaper than 12 months.
Insurance was due this month -£350 thereabouts. A fair bit of spending recently then, but the bulk has been on admin and tax.
On a separate note, this car is covering only the miles to and from the office. It does little else. I am able to do flexible working and do work from other offices (including home) but am still obliged to turn up at my main office a few days a week. It is these trips that I use the Audi. So, in that respect, the Audi is documenting the amount of miles that aren't really necessary and are more management 'asks' than business 'needs'. With that in mind, I wonder just how many people on the roads every day really don't need to be there to do their job. For me so far, it's around 3,000 miles of time, financial and environmental waste and counting.
But the Audi is taking it all in its stride. Let's see how it fares through winter....
Total so far
£110 tax
£350 insurance + £87 original insurance
£5 anti freeze
£1 (2x tyre air)
=
£553
It's been a few months since my last post and I've hit 159,000 miles of M62 to-and-fro with lots of M62 stoppage and startage during every outing. My journey is consumed by the enforced 50mph speed limit currently and almost every day the motorway a god awful nightmare. This made me wonder what the point of Active Traffic Management is. The idea of ATM is that traffic speeds are reduced at busy times, thereby keeping a constant, steady flow of traffic. Anyone who uses the M62 will know that the current enforced 50mph is anything but constant and most of the time those 50mph signs are just a pipedream target that you can only wish to come close to. Waste of money then? We'll see.
Back to the Audi, I took Wormburners advice and, with a planned work trip further afield to Cheshire I had a little chat with my Shed. I promised Audi a full tank of fuel if it delivered me there and back safe and sound without problem. It indeed did this – despite an extra dose of traffic hell from all the gods of rush hour, coupled with a sprinkling of lane closures and dash of bad weather. Not a hitch of a problem from happy Shed though!
Audi received a full tank of fuel and a lot of confidence from me.
It has also had its second bath – and I'll provide it with a third in a few weeks time.
Emeye had a good point with the Anti Freeze. I took a trip to Asda and a £5 bottle now travels on the back seat with my water bottle, being used intermittently to stop the rads freezing.
Tax was due last month too - I took 6 months out (£110, I think). I know half-year purchases are a false economy, but it 'felt' cheaper than 12 months.
Insurance was due this month -£350 thereabouts. A fair bit of spending recently then, but the bulk has been on admin and tax.
On a separate note, this car is covering only the miles to and from the office. It does little else. I am able to do flexible working and do work from other offices (including home) but am still obliged to turn up at my main office a few days a week. It is these trips that I use the Audi. So, in that respect, the Audi is documenting the amount of miles that aren't really necessary and are more management 'asks' than business 'needs'. With that in mind, I wonder just how many people on the roads every day really don't need to be there to do their job. For me so far, it's around 3,000 miles of time, financial and environmental waste and counting.
But the Audi is taking it all in its stride. Let's see how it fares through winter....
Total so far
£110 tax
£350 insurance + £87 original insurance
£5 anti freeze
£1 (2x tyre air)
=
£553
Edited by Paul O on Tuesday 30th October 12:17
Edited by Paul O on Tuesday 30th October 12:18
Well after a long period of minimal costs, the Audi has required a few essentials. The always required insurance and tax have been paid in the past month or two (£350 insurance once again, £260 road tax) and this month the exhaust has sprung a leak in the form of a gaping hole in the flexi joint at the front. It has been fixed before but bodged by welding the new flexi to the middle section Catalytic converter.
I'm not a DIY'er so had to buy a new one as the garage wouldn't do a welding job, citing it needed both new front and cat parts to seal the deal. This was £280.
I pondered over the cost for a few weeks, using my other car whilst I decided what to do and in that time one of the front tyres went flat! My other car then hit a problem on the way to work with a "Check Engine, visit workshop" light instilling immediate panic of expensive bills too. The joys of motoring indeed.
So, after abandoning the Porsche at Revolution in Brighouse, a long train journey home it was time to get the Audi fixed pronto. I bought a foot pump and pumped up the tyre then, after a few calls around for quotes I booked it in with the original garage for the exhaust and tyre repair.
The repair was £15 plus £20 for tracking, totalling £320.
This got me thinking about whether it is worthwhile, so I've calculated the total cost of ownership in 16 months and 12,000 miles. It goes like this;
16 months, 12k miles
Year 1
£230 tax
£350 insurance
£87 insurance
£5 anti freeze
£10 air (to check/fill the tyres at 50p a go)
40 MOT
Year 2
280 exhaust
25 tyre fix and balance
260 tax
350 insurance
That works out at about £1637 - or £102.31 per month. In addition, travelling 12,000 miles at approximately 30mpg works out at about 1800 litres of fuel at, say £1.30 per litre. That equates to £2340 fuel. Add the lot together and we've down for 33p per mile. Oh, there was also £30 of oil too, which I'd forgotten about.
A quick look online at new cars for comparison and nothing comes close, so shedding still remains good value it would seem, even though it still makes me wince having to fork out for a car that I don't want to spend anything on.
Now for the overtime, to pay for the inevitable financial doom that the Porsche bill will bring....
I'm not a DIY'er so had to buy a new one as the garage wouldn't do a welding job, citing it needed both new front and cat parts to seal the deal. This was £280.
I pondered over the cost for a few weeks, using my other car whilst I decided what to do and in that time one of the front tyres went flat! My other car then hit a problem on the way to work with a "Check Engine, visit workshop" light instilling immediate panic of expensive bills too. The joys of motoring indeed.
So, after abandoning the Porsche at Revolution in Brighouse, a long train journey home it was time to get the Audi fixed pronto. I bought a foot pump and pumped up the tyre then, after a few calls around for quotes I booked it in with the original garage for the exhaust and tyre repair.
The repair was £15 plus £20 for tracking, totalling £320.
This got me thinking about whether it is worthwhile, so I've calculated the total cost of ownership in 16 months and 12,000 miles. It goes like this;
16 months, 12k miles
Year 1
£230 tax
£350 insurance
£87 insurance
£5 anti freeze
£10 air (to check/fill the tyres at 50p a go)
40 MOT
Year 2
280 exhaust
25 tyre fix and balance
260 tax
350 insurance
That works out at about £1637 - or £102.31 per month. In addition, travelling 12,000 miles at approximately 30mpg works out at about 1800 litres of fuel at, say £1.30 per litre. That equates to £2340 fuel. Add the lot together and we've down for 33p per mile. Oh, there was also £30 of oil too, which I'd forgotten about.
A quick look online at new cars for comparison and nothing comes close, so shedding still remains good value it would seem, even though it still makes me wince having to fork out for a car that I don't want to spend anything on.
Now for the overtime, to pay for the inevitable financial doom that the Porsche bill will bring....
Nice cars these. My last car was a rare White B5 A4 1.9 TDI Quattro. It would do 40-50MPG, get up to Lancashire and back to Bournemouth on one tank of fuel, was brilliant in the snow with heated seats and 4WD, and managed a round trip to France and Switzerland (about 1500 miles) for a snowboard holiday. Not bad for a 180,000 mile 1997 German saloon for £1600! the starter motor broke the day after that trip and needed sorting - common with older diesels as it needed to crank for about 20-30 seconds before it would fire.
It wouldn't set your pants on fire, would struggle up hills and such, but handled really nicely and had a surprising amount of grip.
They can be pricey for parts. Mine had a new turbo before I bought it which was in the region of £300, the dual-mass flywheel I think was a bit buggered on mine, was drivable and the clutch didn't slip but was nice and juddery on set off - fine when you got going. Was a £700 fix to replace with a single-mass unit but I sold it before I did something stupid...
I sold it before I ended up doing daft things to it, like fixing the suspension or remapping it. I've got a MK1 MX5 now and its great - I do miss the heated seats and massive boot though!
I think this generation of Audis are the last 'hands on' cars they built, not too much electronic stuff under the hood, they're still quite DIY friendly and seem to be very solidly built.
It wouldn't set your pants on fire, would struggle up hills and such, but handled really nicely and had a surprising amount of grip.
They can be pricey for parts. Mine had a new turbo before I bought it which was in the region of £300, the dual-mass flywheel I think was a bit buggered on mine, was drivable and the clutch didn't slip but was nice and juddery on set off - fine when you got going. Was a £700 fix to replace with a single-mass unit but I sold it before I did something stupid...
I sold it before I ended up doing daft things to it, like fixing the suspension or remapping it. I've got a MK1 MX5 now and its great - I do miss the heated seats and massive boot though!
I think this generation of Audis are the last 'hands on' cars they built, not too much electronic stuff under the hood, they're still quite DIY friendly and seem to be very solidly built.
Just wondering - what do you guys think of the ride quality of the Mk 1 Audi A4.
From reading far too many press reports then is healthy
- ive always had the perception that Audis in general tend to ride pretty harshly.
Seen what looked like a very nice tidy (from the ad) 01 Audi A4 Mk 1 (last of the mk 1s before the B6) 1.9 tdi automatic a few weeks ago - avoided the temptation to go to see it - because I was concerned the ride would be absolutely s
t.
But assuming that its on normal (non sport/not modified) suspension with sensible sized wheels and tyres - is the ride okay on rough roads.
Thanks
From reading far too many press reports then is healthy
- ive always had the perception that Audis in general tend to ride pretty harshly.Seen what looked like a very nice tidy (from the ad) 01 Audi A4 Mk 1 (last of the mk 1s before the B6) 1.9 tdi automatic a few weeks ago - avoided the temptation to go to see it - because I was concerned the ride would be absolutely s
t.But assuming that its on normal (non sport/not modified) suspension with sensible sized wheels and tyres - is the ride okay on rough roads.
Thanks
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