RE: Shed of the Week: Audi TT (Mk1)

[832ark]

I had a 225 which was a lovely place to be but fk me was it dull to drive. About as exciting as a toilet seat.

[KM666]

Carry coils and a spare MAF in the boot of any 20v turbo and that's about 50% of the common stuff covered. Changing every vac, boost or breather line will eliminate 49.999999% of all other issues.

[JohnnysTT]

I have and Audi TT ABT convertable, I am told there wasn't many built, does anyone know there value or where to get it valued, if they are so rare..

[J4CKO]

R4PID said:

Its the Karmann Ghia of it's generation. The car aging hipster millennials will be buying in 10-15 years.

Was thinking the exact same thing earlier.

Too many still about and familiarity breeds contempt, numbers will dwindle and they will have a resurgence at some point, just not yet.

[R4PID]

J4CKO said:

Was thinking the exact same thing earlier.

Too many still about and familiarity breeds contempt, numbers will dwindle and they will have a resurgence at some point, just not yet.

Ah.. you should watch my when will the mk1 Audi TT be worth more vid on YT...

[Matt_Zeus]

I was car shopping over the past 2 weeks with a £1500 budget.
Spent ages trying to find a TT but none of the sellers had decent service history (mainly clutch and cambelt).
And most traders "Flew through last MOT" would show failures on quite a few items then passing the same day. Maybe fixed them, doubtful though.

I settled on a £500 Rusty Ford Puma with 54,000 miles on the clock which will now become a long term project that will go way over budget...

[J4CKO]

R4PID said:

J4CKO said:

Was thinking the exact same thing earlier.

Too many still about and familiarity breeds contempt, numbers will dwindle and they will have a resurgence at some point, just not yet.

Ah.. you should watch my when will the mk1 Audi TT be worth more vid on YT...

Rings a bell, did you do one on the old Sat Nav as well ?

[VR6 Eug]

The TT is the modern day Ford Capri. ..both look great, both were cheap and easy to maintain, both have dubious handling. One now a classic, the other will be when all the rest are dying out.

[kel176506]

I’ve always thought one of these with the Baseball style leather interior would one day be a design classic. Can’t believe they are 20 years old, they have aged very well inside and out.

[TomR555]

Just bought myself one of these little gems,mk1 225 absolutely love it.Great little car for what you pay for them.

[rtz62]

Note to editor; it wasn’t just a different Turbo that was the difference in the power output, the 225 had 2 small intercoolwr, the 180 was a single intercooler.
Also the compression ratio was different, the 225 was 9-1 and the 180 9.5-1 iirc
Sorry but please make sure you get the facts right!
Also, out of interest, first year production of the 180 was a 5-Speed gearbox if I’m not mistaken? (I stand to be corrected of course!)

[Zooks]

Anyone watching that girl Sarah on the you tube channel restoring hers? that one looks beat half to death.

[va1o]

I got my Mk3 last year and love it. I'd always admired the TT through all 3 generations and remember when they were just a concept! Had no idea they'd reached sub £2k, great buy at that money

[s m]

VR6 Eug said:

The TT is the modern day Ford Capri. ..both look great, both were cheap and easy to maintain, both have dubious handling.One now a classic, the other will be when all the rest are dying out.

Always interesting how perceptions change over the years









"......handles superbly....." ( CAR )




Best "drivers car" out the review

Edited by s m on Saturday 28th July 08:30

[Thin Lizzy]

Think some people have missed the point, it's a shed, so not to some performance expectations.

It's a bloody good looking and driving shed and deserves better than 6.85.

[samoht]

s m said:

Always interesting how perceptions change over the years

To be fair, those pics show a pre-spoiler car so it's not just that perceptions have changed, Audi changed the chassis setup to be very notably less lively after that test was written, surely?

[CDP]

My wife had a 180 Quattro in black with black leather. If you think of it as a mini GT rather than a sports car it really works. The interior quality was a cut above the Boxster let alone the MG's, Mazdas, Z3s etc even if the driving experience was a bit wooden.

She ran it to over 190,000 miles and it stood up really well. Better than my MG at 70,000. I'd imagine a fair few of these will be clocked.

[Gary C]

Wildcat45 said:

One of these or an MGF/TF for the same price?

As a serial MGF owner all I can say is I'll take the Audi.

No suprised by that as the mgf is a st car.

[1781cc]

aka_kerrly said:

I was up at Curborough at the weekend and there were a couple of mk1 TTs being hounded around the track setting some very respectable times. They certainly didn't look to be the handling disasters that people make them out to be.

I've owned mine for 4 years now, been tracking it over the last 3 and as mentioned above they aren't the handling disasters that people expect, that said, mine is extensively modified. I know these aren't the first choice for many people as a track car, but with the price point they are currently at for purchase I would wholeheartedly recommend anyone considering one to hit the track with it.

Incidentally, I am 6' 4" and 17 stone and have no issues, and my water pump is just fine and dandy thank you.

[s m]

samoht said:

To be fair, those pics show a pre-spoiler car so it's not just that perceptions have changed, Audi changed the chassis setup to be very notably less lively after that test was written, surely?

As per recent threads, they were best left without the later mods if you wanted a "drivers car". Seems to be a few original spec still going when there was the same sort of TT thread a few months back
Don't think Porsche/Ferrari would have bowed to media/PR pressure in same way perhaps.
Good news is it seems simple to return them to press review spec