My Audi TT problem

MX5huggy

capri wrote: »

Ha ha funny u shud say that had one before the Audi and am seriously considering another cheers!

Not quite so happy now as it needs a new tyre but on the plus side its only £55 for the tyre (top of the range as well) although the old one has only done about 2k :mad:

mikey72

Inactive wrote: »

No there is a huge difference, Japanese cars rarely have a problem.

British cars were utter carp..

When British cars were cr*p, so were Japanese. They used to rust away just as fast. Ever see an old one nowadays? Clever marketing, completely different car with the same name, or dropping an entire range when required, and getting everyone to associate the car with the new shiny model. And the Japanese policy of not admitting to any mistake. British cars got it entirely backwards,they kept the same name dragging on, and managed to get everyone to associate it with the original designs, not the improved new model. Fiats, everyone remebers the rust, not the fact they're fully galvanised. German, brilliant cars, not that the only thing they sold was a base model, with even the cd as as extra. And the British pastime of knocking British didn't help.
For the times, british cars were as good as the competition.
To compare with the Japanese marketing, look at Renault, same marketing policy. Good reliable car, for a European manufacturer, but just what is a Renault Megane?

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers!

capri wrote: »

Not sure if Im honest just been told needs a whole new unit! think i will get it fixed and sell it sounds the best option!
Thanks

Who told you that? Only a gearbox specialist is qualified to make that decision.

harveybobbles

I can recommend some very good transmissions garages. where abouts are you in the UK?

Inactive

mikey72 wrote: »

When British cars were cr*p, so were Japanese.

In those days, all cars rusted away, the difference with Japanese cars was that they were totally reliable, didn't leak oil by the bucketfull, like crap British Cars.

Mechanically, Japanese cars were superb.

I mean who else would dream up a square steering wheel like that fitted to the All agro?... :rotfl:

Lum

Also the Japanese had an excuse. Cars don't really rust over there, which is why you can get imports that are 15+ years old and completely rust free.

They at least fixed the problem once it became apparent to them, and British cars remained crap.

mikey72

Lum wrote: »

Also the Japanese had an excuse. Cars don't really rust over there, which is why you can get imports that are 15+ years old and completely rust free.

They at least fixed the problem once it became apparent to them, and British cars remained crap.

Don't really think I can come up will an answer to that, if you're saying Japanese did rust, but it was ok as they weren't designed for the rain in Britain. Or are you saying british cars still rust, and they haven't fixed it?
Next time you're out, look for any car pre L reg, and see it it's British. european, or Japanese, and see which lasted best.
As for Japanese style, look at
http://www.cube-cubic.co.uk/gallery.html
At least the steering wheel is round.


As I said "And the British pastime of knocking British didn't help."

Lum

I'm just saying it's a little different when you go into a completely new market and get caught out by something like that, wheras the British companies should've known better.

My understanding is that Japanese cars only really found their way into the UK in any significant amount in the 80s, by the time we were in the 90s the problems were mostly sorted.

By comparison the British cars have been around a lot longer, and it should've been obvious to BL that their cars were all rotting away, yet they didn't do anything about it for quite some time.

I'm not saying it's ok for any nationality to sell rustbuckets, don't get me wrong here, but I'm slightly more sympathetic to a manufacturer who hasn't seen the problem before than to one who sits and watches all their previous models rot away and does nothing about it.

And I've owned a number of pre L reg cars. I think the best survior would be my Volvo, which is (of course) Sweedish. My guess would be that the Sweedish have an even bigger rust problem than we do thanks to their climate, but Volvo actually did something about it.

As for the Cube, it's just another toy/novelty car like the new Beetle/500 etc. designed with a unique look to people who are prepared to pay extra for such a thing. Some people love it, others hate it, personally I think the previous generation Cube looks better. Nissan have been doing oddball cars like this for years, look at the Figaro, S-Cargo and Pao for example.

mikey72

OK so you owned swedish, but support japanese. I wouldn't have traded my Rover SD1 against the Datsun Sunny you didn't own, but support anyway.
My SD1 didn't leak oil, ran forever, and I would buy again today with no questions.

goldspanners

anyway back to the TT, as far as im aware there is a problem with the audi quattro (and most other high performance 4wd systems) if the tyres arent running with a very similar amount of tread on them this can cause expensive problems relating to the diffs and gearbox. some folk say this is a load of crap,other can verify it due to having seen the bill for damage caused by this.