Audi A2 | Shed of the Week

Ah sure, a remaining discipline decision this 7 days, the Audi A2. Quite few of these aluminium-bodied futuremobiles have been sucked into our £1,500-or-less Get rid of of the 7 days black hole. In truth there have been just two in the very last decade, a 2002 1.4 petrol in 2014 and a 2001 1.4 diesel in 2016.

These days, with the inflationary effects of planet activities, the half-respectable 3-determine A2 is as distant as at any time. Even when you forged your gaze over and above PH Classifieds, MOT’d A2s very hardly ever look for a lot less than £1,000. The ones that do are nearly often Cat C or N. £1,500 appears to have develop into the default entry selling price for examples that you wouldn’t head remaining observed lifeless in. Some are remaining advertised for £3,500 and additional. Anything at all that may possibly conceivably promote for much less than the proverbial bag of sand does not, for the reason that it has been written off. 

As proof of types, let us take a look at the fates of people other two Drop of the 7 days A2s. The 2002 petrol just one from SOTW in 2014 disappeared from United kingdom streets sometime just after its ultimate MOT take a look at in 2016, by which point it had completed a creditable 177,000 miles. The 2001 diesel A2 from 2016 vanished someday in the 12 months after September 2019, when it passed its final MOT examination with just more than 141,000 miles lined.

Of course there is a 3rd option, which is that joyful A2 homeowners aren’t providing them. This is rather probable. Lose himself ran a quite early 1.4 diesel A2 for a even though. Over-all he liked it for its differentness, its economy and its unusual spaciousness for the footprint. It was amazingly able on more quickly streets also, attracting a speeding good on the A303 when Shed considered he was just bumbling together at the NSL. Turns out he wasn’t.

The only A2 features he was not so eager on ended up the leg pains he endured when driving, and the single arm windscreen wiper. The leg thing initially. This was to do with the A2’s unconventional spaciousness. Get rid of constantly termed his A2 the ‘tin louse’. The height appeared out of proportion to the duration in some way. The verticality of its interior place gave it the means to accommodate five large lads. Only if they all sat to focus, intellect. You experienced to sit bolt upright in an A2. 

At knocking on for six feet Drop is only middlingly tall, but it was bodily difficult for him to straighten out his knee joints while driving the wheel. He remembers being maddened by the need to have to prevent every 50 % an hour or so for leg-straightening breaks in order to get the circulation again into his lower extremities. We just can’t explain to you any extra on this since Shed is minded to preemptively sue Audi for any very long time period leg injury that may well have an affect on him in later lifetime. 

Wipers usually are not one thing you frequently see described as a level of ongoing aggravation on any auto, but the A2 wasn’t just any motor vehicle. Pre-2003 designs like Shed’s experienced what in A2 circles is normally named a ‘hook’ arm. 2003-on vehicles like our drop went to a ‘floppy’ or aero structure. Drop does not know or care about any of this. All he understands is that when he stopped in the rain the wiper used to strike the A-pillar really hard adequate to make the complete vehicle shake. He hardly ever obtained utilized to it.

In any case, receiving round to this week’s drop, a well-specced 1.4 SE, she offers nicely as auto dealers used to say. Some blackness has been chipped off the rear window spoilerette but the primary blue paint even now seems contemporary and there are no obvious bodywork flaws. You just can’t say the very same about the really hard touchpoints in the cabin, most of which are rather heavily scarred, suggesting that previous homeowners could have included men and women who have been seriously into rings, like Bobby George or Johhny Depp. 

As we talk in June, the automobile has completed 139,000 miles, which is what it experienced carried out at the day of its MOT in February. The suggestion there remaining that the past proprietor got bored of it, or of existence itself. No matter what, the seller is providing a fresh new ticket on sale to go with the service record and, to quotation from the advertisement, the ‘perfect’ motor, suspension and gearbox. A daring claim. Get rid of remembers earning a related slip-up several decades ago when tricky-advertising a Ford Cortina to the only villager who turned out to be courageous enough to stand up to him. Even now, forty-odd decades afterwards, Lose is continue to getting the cross the street to stay away from him.