yabeeb
13-07-2014, 09:36 PM
Hi.
I got a used Audi A3 a month and a half ago. Was in mint condition until i drove it home from the dealer and got 2 chips in the bonnet. Was just coming to terms with this and have spotted another one. Now, call me a whiner but my former Renault Clio had not ONE chip in the bonnet after 8yrs of caning it round the M25. So how come i pay 14k for an Audi and get 3 in a month and a half?? And more importantly, what do i do? I've had a couple of blokes look and apparently one's gone through the XXX (dunno the name of it) but basically the layer that means if i don't deal with it, the paint will go all **** and the bonnet will start to rust. So Audi ordered me some paint which i assume i have to put on like tipex and from what i've read it will look a bit dodgy anyway (certainly if i attempt to do it). So I took it to a local body place and they said the same that left untreated it will eventually rust. I said how long and he shrugged and said 6 month, 1 year, 2 years! I take from his response he didn't really know. Then he told me he would not get involved with a tipex job, and that a respray is what they could offer me for 200 notes. So my question is do i just leave it and respray in a couple of years when presumably i will have shed loads more chips, or find someone to tipex it asap?
Secondly, does anyone find that BOSE is a bit kak? Again, my trusty 05 clio might not have had the base but i reckon it had a more rounded sound than the audi BOSE system does. I can't explain it. I dunno if its cos the trebles all tinny or if the speakers are a bit poo or what. I am taking it to Audi tomoz as i am sure one of the front ones is bust as it crackles intermittently - but i don't think even getting that fixed would improve things much. So my next questions is how do i improve the sound of the BOSE?? Its a 2011 model so not that old.
Thanks in advance for reading my rant and for any words of wisdom!
I got a used Audi A3 a month and a half ago. Was in mint condition until i drove it home from the dealer and got 2 chips in the bonnet. Was just coming to terms with this and have spotted another one. Now, call me a whiner but my former Renault Clio had not ONE chip in the bonnet after 8yrs of caning it round the M25. So how come i pay 14k for an Audi and get 3 in a month and a half?? And more importantly, what do i do? I've had a couple of blokes look and apparently one's gone through the XXX (dunno the name of it) but basically the layer that means if i don't deal with it, the paint will go all **** and the bonnet will start to rust. So Audi ordered me some paint which i assume i have to put on like tipex and from what i've read it will look a bit dodgy anyway (certainly if i attempt to do it). So I took it to a local body place and they said the same that left untreated it will eventually rust. I said how long and he shrugged and said 6 month, 1 year, 2 years! I take from his response he didn't really know. Then he told me he would not get involved with a tipex job, and that a respray is what they could offer me for 200 notes. So my question is do i just leave it and respray in a couple of years when presumably i will have shed loads more chips, or find someone to tipex it asap?
Secondly, does anyone find that BOSE is a bit kak? Again, my trusty 05 clio might not have had the base but i reckon it had a more rounded sound than the audi BOSE system does. I can't explain it. I dunno if its cos the trebles all tinny or if the speakers are a bit poo or what. I am taking it to Audi tomoz as i am sure one of the front ones is bust as it crackles intermittently - but i don't think even getting that fixed would improve things much. So my next questions is how do i improve the sound of the BOSE?? Its a 2011 model so not that old.
Thanks in advance for reading my rant and for any words of wisdom!