Audi TT Overhaul - Flipping Bangers - S02 EP01 - Car Show

this time on Flipping bangers we wanted  something Glam potentially this car could be extremely dangerous we're going to  end up buying it whatever's wrong with it so we took a chance of rocketing we need to get  back right now on the best looking when I look at that car now I can genuinely say it scares  me but cruelest is a real waste of time when you find out that what you've done hasn't fixed  the problem most frustrating motor we could find it's not coming off because still not carry on I'm

Gus Gregory and I'm will Trickett together  we're risking everything to follow a dream it's something I've wanted to do for a long long time  we've packed in our day jobs and invested our own hard-earned cash as we try to make a living in  a Cutthroat world of second-hand cars it's all in the chase you've got to buy well you've  got to sell well why would anybody buy this car we've got a goal we want to double our  money if we put 500 quid in we need to see a thousand pounds back we're targetin

g the  very bottom of the market we buy cars that nobody else wants can we keep our business  afloat flipping bangers it needs so much work one year ago we turned our backs on our regular  jobs rented this garage and attempted to carve out a new living by buying and selling cheap  cars and made enough money flipping bangers just to return people dream of giving  everything up but we're doing it for real and it's scary we've rated our piggy banks again  and this time we have enough to spend 500 t

o a thousand pounds on each car if we want to cover  our costs and pay ourselves wages on top we have no choice but to double our return on every pound  we put in our Workshop time must be fixed too and runs to just five days per car we've swapped  a salaries and a wage possibly for nothing the workshop is hungry for fresh rusty metal  what shall we get we've learned that rare cars can sometimes be tough so this time we keep  it mainstream and see what a few hundred quid will buy us I reckon we

need to look for  something sportsy and Flash and relatively modern that's what you're looking for  yeah I'm going to try typing that in and it's come up with a whole ream of things now  I'm lost already what what do you reckon Gus I'm just thinking of price range so I think  that SLK right okay I really fill me with that much interest no me neither those early  1800s yeah we want something which is really sort of trusted so it's going to sell easily  something popular about Porsche uh Boxster y

ou get a boxer I bet we'd get a Boxster no too  many of those yeah no because what is something yeah I could do boxes the first generation Audi  four-wheel drive yeah they were cool really cool there are thousands of TTS out there but they  have too many zeros in the price something that we've never tried before is to call up auction  ads that have ended with no sale it might throw up a troubled TT that no one else wants the next  day we have a lead so we're going to see Ollie Ollie lives in Mil

ton Keynes brilliant which is  the throbbing heart of the British Motor Racing industry it certainly is certainly good part of  this eh yeah and this is he's selling his dad's car and his uh apparently been sitting around  for a bit because he bought it to sell it and then didn't sell it okay and then I think it sat  around a bit more yeah the price has gone yeah potentially worrying the price has gone from 1500  pounds to a thousand pounds it's it's quite a drop isn't it yeah it is quite a job

but especially  when you take into consideration what it is and it's a series one in the most beautiful gray  sweet I do that is gorgeous color yep and it's got a special edition interior you know the  baseball glove that's gorgeous leather yeah with that big leather Stitch oh that is so nice  yeah not everybody's cup of tea I might say but I don't really like it there's a big list  of things wrong with it now how did I know we arrive in an industrial estate where the  TT has been taken especial

ly for us to view Ollie Hello nice to meet you nice to  meet you hi there nice to meet you I'm will we've come back to TT oh yeah she's  inside I'll open the door for you brilliant potentially this car could be extremely dangerous  if it looks as good as it did in the ad we're going to end up buying it whatever's wrong with it  yeah and the problem is it does look just as good as it did in the advert have we struck gray gold  this 18 year old series one two two five Quattro doesn't have the rear

spoiler which is sought  after in the used market we've been instructed that Ollie knows very little about this car he  just wants it off the premises and at a price of a thousand pounds it's take it or leave it today  so only a quick test drive is allowed a good TT can fetch two to three k but this one is poorly  its exhaust has split in half and it overheats so it can't be driven on the main road we settle for  the slip roads around the industrial estate not ideal for sampling the Audi's sub

7 second naught  to 60 but we can still get a taste of its power right oh yeah yeah he's getting that temperature  gauge of rocketing with his get back right now driving a car that overheats risks damaging  the engine it means we've only got a couple of minutes to get a feel for the Roadster it's  the dark side of it isn't it it's a car that's much younger than anything that we've we've  ever had and that worries me yeah and I it worries me that I love it because I know what  happens and we both

love it and that's really dangerous because that means we're going to end up  buying it but should we the list of little jobs on our beautiful TT is growing longer every second  breaks a terrible on it actually it has been sat around for a while not worried about that that's  a mechanical thing yeah that's easy that's easy peasy the gear change is really stiff so clearly  either the cables or well something but something needs 10 tables or the sockets of this end or  it could be deep inside the

gearbox this car's suffering from the common pulse which are worrying  their computer control thing so the display there the the controller for the for the hood which  is not working either the windows aren't going up or down we buy cars that no one else wants  and this one is bang on brand it seems to have every single TT fault the car is known for are  we getting carried away just because it once cost around 30 grand we've got to decide whether  this is actually workable you know what despite

how fabulous that interior is the car feels like  it hasn't been loved the ABS lights flashing it's just oh it just doesn't doesn't feel good and  how much does he want for it any more wants a thousand pounds for it now yeah which there's just  no way that we're going to make any money out by the time we've done the exhaust no way the only  way we're going to get this one is if we really screw them down on price well let's talk to him  it's all about how much we can get it for us it is foreign

excellent we love it but it's full of floors  you know he should have seen him trying to drive it without gas station it's really stiff  it doesn't spring back either but yeah there's a lot of things we need to do to it oh yeah  I mean it has got problems you've got to be sure about this look the windows don't go down  the hood doesn't go down and worst of all that temperature gauge definitely doesn't go down and  you know to make it good for us we need the price to go down the issues that there

are realistically  700 pounds is is as much as we can be I can't do 700 it's limited edition limited edition seats  yeah that's true that is yeah yeah fair enough what do you think should we try and meet halfway  I can do 800 750 yeah 750. yeah okay yeah yeah excellent 750 words for us doesn't it it does yeah  excellent nice one lolly we've got to design a car for the price of a designer handbag but before  we start whooping we also have a list of scary and quite possibly expensive problems yet

we still  need to double its sale price let's get it back in the workshop and find out if we can when I look  at that car now I can genuinely say it scares me well I'm not surprised but we have got it at  the price that we hope for we've managed to pull them down a long way from the price he wanted  yeah I still think and I always think this when we come away we've paid too much for it back at  the workshop we need to put our thinking hats on revisit this project with clear heads and work out 

weather with only five days to turn it around we are either Brave or stupid hello early bird good  morning you're right yeah I am just admiring this our car yeah it's absolutely brilliant yeah I was  thinking about this last night on the outside it's everything we wanted isn't it well I was doing a  bit of research on them and these things have got a catalog of errors that they often suffer from  yeah and we already know about the gear stick one yeah it's really awkward to get into gear it's  re

ally awkward to get into and the temperature gauge windows and the hood an exhaust oh yeah well  we've got a long list and only five days I'm gonna go and open up the door all right oh can you get  the keys they're on the Shelf yeah no problem we advertise the cars as soon as we've got  them so I waste no time and take some picks for our online auction so I'm listing our Audi  TT will and I have decided that because this Audi TT is very special and we're banking on  the fact that if somebody wan

ts to buy a series one Audi TT they will buy it in the gray with a  baseball glove interior so so that ends we are putting in a starting price of 1 500. um we're  going to do a Buy It Now price for wait for it 2795 and then a reserve price  of 2 400. I'm going to post that so if the listing says everything works on the car there is a massive pressure to  make that true in just five days the first look underneath is key it's something  we can't do on location yes go see it severe disconnection pr

oblem there welding job coming up  on that well that that's good if you can weld that or if that can be welded because this rear section  is dealer only and it's 800 quid really I can do a lot of welding for 800 quid and the great thing is  when we take it out that'll give us access to the uh to the Gear cables which are just above this  section we've got the cam belt's got to be done yes and because of our overheating probably water  pump as well at the same time yeah definitely but the other s

tuff like the roof yeah it's going to  be a very very very close call no time to waste rather than tackle the critical mechanical issues  we have a brew and decide to start on something cosmetic since the car is a lot about looking  good so our Audi TD convertible isn't actually a convertible because the roof doesn't come down and  the reason for that we think is the little black box that lives in here to get to it I'm going to  take the rear window out which sounds ridiculous I know but the rea

r window has been stuck in so  badly that we're never going to get top money for this car if it's like this you can see the glue  all the way around it here it's a really really tricky thing to do and we need to do it very  precisely there may well be a special tool for the removal of glass but I use a kitchen knife to  prize it out taking care not to rip the fabric or I'm into 300 pounds for another Hood I just hope  the boffins online are correct about the roof control module which is basicall

y a switch being  kaput so there is our kidney shape hole and there is our Black Box inside a little cradle there  with some 10 mil bolts at the Top If the Black Box isn't the cause of our broken Roof then we may  have to replace the motors or the frame which will be around 350 pounds a real blow for us the  landlord's son a boy racer and Audi fan sold as a used module for 40 pounds so this is our new  well it's not new obviously because it's us it's a second hand um well black bolts fairly accu

rately  named so I'll pull the wires out of one and plug them in the other and see if it works there we  go so I think I should connect the battery now works one Triumph down I reflect that I tackle  things that require guile and cunning but for anything sticky and dirty will is the man for the  job this is a rear window out of our Audi which as you can see has fallen out at some point and  somebody's tried gluing it back in with this stuff here that is PU glue polyurethane glue normally  used f

or fixing wood together not glass into cars before it can be glued back in I've got to  clean all that loss off and end up with a nice clean shiny surface like that little sample  bit there I'm going to use this scraper for that because it's a nice clean surface it just  scrapes away beautifully look I'm thinking hard for any Smart Tips relating to nasty  mess removal uh don't scratch the glass and don't miss any bits or your perfectionist  partner will moan rocket science it ain't that's the la

st bit of glue off there still a  few more jobs to do though this is the um the surround that goes on that holds it on the inside  I've got to make a new one of those from PVC vinyl the electrical connections have come off here and  here if I've got enough time and enough patience I'm going to sold the new ones on those and before  the glass can be glued bonded into the canvas of the car I've got to put a special primer on around  the edges so it accepts the glue really well then it will be a re

ally great little job but the  TT is convertible once more it's time to tackle the mechanical gremlin the pleasure of driving  this car is seriously marred by the gear change it goes backwards and forwards fine but the side  to side is really stiff there's two cables in here one cable that does up and down and one cable that  does side to side so clearly the one that does the side to side is either sticky and it's frayed or  it's bent or something anyway it's got to come out I'm going to change

them both swapping over a  gear linkage a job that crops up on many vintage Volkswagen products it's basically disconnecting  a cable at the gearbox and the shifter and then replacing the cables about 25 pounds or you can  clean the cables inside but it's not an easy job in a modern car the interior and most of the  underside will need to be removed to gain access so the final step to reveal my gear change  mechanism is to take out the center console here and I just wanted to take a minute to ap

preciate  this because it's rather beautifully made and if you take it out in the order that they  tell you to take it out it comes out really beautifully it it's really well thought out  and I've only broken one thing which is good so what I should be doing is going underneath the  car dropping the linkage out from the bottom but the LCD in here is broken so while I've got all  the tools here I might just whip this out as well and then we can get that fixed a failed.matrix  display in a pinnacl

e is yet another textbook TT fault many owners don't bother fixing it as a  main dealer would charge 600 pounds for the job I'll see what can be done later now I need to get  underneath the car to carry on with the linkage the next step in getting to the gear linkage is  taking the exhaust pipe off well we know that this resource pipe's had it so it's got to come off  anyway but like the all exhaust fixings they're a nightmare to get off because they've been  heated and cooled and heated and coo

led I suspect oh suspect they're gonna break but no not broken as usual just removing the exhaust is a series of  minor battles but little by little I make progress oh it's actually it's ripped  it so we'll need a new rubber but I'd like to say at this point then it  wasn't me that ripped it but hey I think it probably was another blow there's no way will can  weld these tubes they are far too rusty now we'll have to find another exhaust potentially a few  hundred quid that we really don't want

to spend maybe we should have seen that coming a  trawl of local online ads has offered up a car dealer who has just finished  breaking his TT I've said I'll take the exhaust and I expect to make a cheeky  offer on anything else he has I'm looking forward to this apparently this guy's  got stacks of bits for me to look through hello hello are you Pete I certainly am must  be well I am good how are you doing good day how are you doing yeah I'm very well good day  to meet you this looks like our A

udi TT exhaust this is the Audi TT exhaust minus an ldtt yes I've  noticed it's not attached I was kind of expecting to be uh taking it off myself I've saved your  job uh so where is the car so I can go and pick it clean of all the other bits we're going to  need for our project oh probably halfway up the M3 at the moment excellent so Pete has already  sold the shell to another hobbyist I think I'm gonna have to um load that one up and take it with  me excellent not before you cross my palm with

a requisite amount of gold do that next really  good wonderful how a sweep through the local free ads can bear fruit the usual Scrappy price  for an exhaust is 250 to 300 quid yeah Peter's happy with a bargain 75. I didn't manage to fix  it for free but that's not far off I'll head back and hopefully by now Gus's mood will have lifted  I've now left the confines of the workshop manual and I'm flying by Instinct the job is much more  challenging than I expected but it feels good well at this poi

nt I would be expecting that  to come apart but I can see the cables now and hopefully I can get the box out of this space here  Slide the new cables in and all this works not in vain because actually putting new cables on this  car will make it drive so much better it's going to be worth it after hours of unscrewing  and pulling bits off I seize my prey hey it's out excuse my cheers but  it's been a long time coming yes there it is let's have a look see how bad it  is shall we and we know that

yep backwards and forwards is fine but this is the one that  should be really stiff but in actual fact it's not stiff at all in which means I have possibly just spent the whole  day taking this car apart for no reason whatsoever a scream from the other end of the workshop means  the day must finish with a trip to the pub we've taken long steps forward but we've wasted  large chunks of our valuable Workshop time it's day two out of five on  Project Audi TT Goss is still miserable because he can't

solve  the issues with the gear linkage yes I'm still short on Smiles one I don't know why  the linkage is poor and two I have to carefully rebuild all the bits that took me a day to remove  ah when you've only got five days to fix a car spending a whole day ripping out the interior  taking out all the under underneath and the prop shop and the exhaust pipe it's a real waste  of time when you find out that what you've done hasn't fixed the problem everything I read about  the gear change being

stiff on these points to the cables but in actual fact and I feel a complete  idiot now but in actual fact when I took the cables off this end and lifted this you can feel  that it's stiff it's exactly the same resistance as you get on the gearbox I should have put two  and two together but what this does is it opens up a whole new can of worms because I've got to  take I've got to get this pin out of here and to do that ideally I want to take this all off and  put it on the bench but this shaft

in here goes all the way through the gearbox and it's got  pins and and forks in there that select gears so I don't want to move that I  don't want to touch that I don't want anything to touch that so I'm going  to see if I can if I can take this off oh you really don't want to disturb that shaft that's  the key because now that is scary I'm just going to fill that up with rags and nothing Falls in  there a visit to the vice is the next step for the gear selector so this is the cause of all my 

problems this little pin in here is clearly seized that's coming out really easily oh there  we go it's out but you can see on here all the lubricant inside here  or as solidified and is sticky so I think maybe if I just clean it up put it  back in and see what it feels just adding a little lubricant no replacement parts that's the  only remedy I need for the offending pin look at this it's a 10 minutes of mild cleaning and I've  completely cured the gear change on our Audi TT so 225 horsepower

series 1 Audi TT with its awful  gear change is now transformed three four five and with Uncle Will's new exhaust we can write  another of the TT's multiple wrongs I'm happy with that yeah nice huh yeah nice and secure our  fixed exhaust and linkage have brought positivity to the workshop everything is suddenly working in  Harmony and Uncle will is building a bracket to hold the glass while it bombs neighbor brackets  I need to attach the brackets to the glass which I can't weld them on can I o

r bolt them on so  I've got these lumps of wood sticking them on now come over to the car and see how it all works everything is cleaned and ready and this is  the moments of truth will the brackets work will the gluing job work if you have a headache  like this a professional fitter will be an 80 quid call out because I'm going to be putting  glue all over this loss and glue being messy I don't want the glue sticking to all  the wrong bits of the canvas do I so I being a little bit careful I'm 

going to mask it all up neatly first fancy glue for sticking canvas and glass together  and it's got a habit of being really really messy but my bracket plan isn't quite over I now  need to force the glass towards the bracket right that's the last bit and I know that  when gluing things once it's set up don't touch it so that's me for the day and  I'm going to leave that to dry overnight day two is over and didn't we do well we've  spent just over a hundred quid the TT is looking better but the

roof and gear shift  were only distractions we've avoided tackling the big nasty jobs such as the overheating  and the cam belt swap we need to face them day three we've resurrected our business fixing up  and selling a very poorly cars accordingly we've bought a TT that showcases every fault that  plagues these cool coops we've got two days left to complete all the Cosmetic and mechanical  jobs but first has my window fix been successful the glass hasn't fallen in which is good the glue  has s

quidged out around the edges which I know at the moment looks a real mess but the trick is this  you let it squish out you wanted to squeege out because you're going to cut it off with a blade  and make it look really nice and nice and tidy that looks like a done job brackets off on the inside and that's ready  to go we're doing the thing that all Warriors do before battle and the battle of the day  is swapping over the cam belt in an engine that's packed in tight I'm secretly hoping  it's Will'

s turn to drown in frustration first generation plastic covers isn't it it  is yeah I want to take that off and have a look what's under the I bet it's not a nice  old-fashioned looking engine it's not going to be pretty is it because it's cheaper to put a  plastic cover on yeah than it is to make it pretty oh yeah it was a multitude of sins yeah  I see where they're coming from with it just like the gear linkage the issue with  changing the cam belts is about access the job is essential for a c

ar that has been  standing if it fails it shreds the engine that's out and that's off the fuse box is off  also which is great that just clicks onto there right now if my plan is correct bearing in mind  my plan is different to my actual knowledge this cover should be coming off now and  I should be able to see the cam belts oh tight let's lose some rattles around but good sounds  like it should come out and actually come out it's like we're six weeks in and we still  haven't seen the cam belt i

t's not coming off because still not coming off the guideline  number of hours for this job is around six to eight we thought it wouldn't apply to us because  we're nice guys but we were wrong we've already done five it comes from there to there and  stops yeah so it's hitting there there's a multitude of things down there oh there  are literally 700 things for it to catch on aha once you start taking big lumps out of these  they become less scary don't they because you see like clearly there's

gearbox there's the  gear change mechanism do you know what I mean yeah I know what you mean but I haven't got the  first bit off yet probably without reading the instructions approach isn't working so I think I'm  going to remove the cooling system to gain access to the other engine belts which hide the cam belt  and then try another route into the engine bay now I can't actually see even four but I guess  that there's a fixing up in here anything a 10 mil socket feels like it's doing something

yes  oh lovely I think I've got the invisible fixing hey that's a genuine big celebration and I  can see all the other bits I need to get to I tell you this is not an easy straightforward job and down goes the TT I need to pull off an engine  mount so I support the engine on a jack while I unscrew it it's a move in the right direction  but there are still dozens of bits to remove and each should be cataloged photographed and stored  carefully and primed to go back in the right slot yes that was

a nightmare but with any luck oh yes wow come on please yeah look at that how it comes and  so does the pulley and the belt after what seems like weeks of work that's the  cam belt finally out while will battles with oil grease and general frustration I've escaped  for a breather there's a functional aspect to my journey too I'm taking the faulty binacle to  a specialist I've got a rather sick LCD cluster for a TT yes is it in for the LCD exactly what  it is yeah and I know that people would pr

obably normally drop them off but I'm really interested  to see the process yeah I'm sure that's no problem do you want to come through with Richard can  I brilliant I absolutely respect small smart companies that are making inexpensive fixes  possible for thousands of motorists and anyway it's a job we can't do ourselves this is proper  Tech well beyond my well beyond my learning so so that's our LCD clearly yeah that's just  how they are that's how they are yeah totally unreadable yeah these P

innacles and close  relatives are used in multiple VW group models and come apart quickly from removing  the front board from the backboard now see this all scares me it's incredibly  scary and there we have the screen there it is the main job is to vacuum up the old solder  connections so we can get the broken screen off so this is your broken screen wow the screen is attached and soldered into place there you go look at that that is amazing very very precise then the Pinnacle is rebuilt  all w

orking 99 pound for this is a bargain I think the whole process has taken about half an  hour of skilled work it's that click isn't it yeah no hammers no spanners remote no  shouting Clean Hands excellent from a pair of Clean Hands to the dirtiest  in the business back at the workshop will is preparing for battle I'm about to put  the new cam belt on I need to look at the water pump it's probably the cause of our  overheating I've got to drain the water out of the engine now there's two ways of

doing that  there's the correct way which is taking off the bottom hose and draining it into a container  and the way I'm going to do it so I need to change the water pump anyway so I'm just going  to take that out and let the water come out so I'm going to catch as much as I can and  hopefully the gusts won't get too cross our engine's been overheating and it's  very very very easy to see why this is the impeller of the water pump those two bits  should fit together like that they pump the wate

r around the engine and in all these bits like  that there's no way that could ever possibly work so I found the root of the problem I've  got the solution which is a new water pump and thankfully I'm changing the fluid at the same time  I run some lube around the O-ring of the 20 crib water pump and fitted now I can get the new belt  into position a struggle with hardly any access now it's always a bit of a fiddle getting these  things in especially on ones like this which are a bit complicated

you've got to get the belt  roughly in place and on this one it's got to go and Beyond this great big bracket and that's  it a new cam belt and water pump when Brave fellows can give no more to particularly  tough and thankless jobs they must hang up their hats and head home financially the whole  project owes us just under a thousand pounds and honestly we're reaching the limit of what we can  spend if we want to sell the TT on for a profit it's day four out of five for our 750 pound  Audi TT

it looked amazing but wasn't now some of it actually works but time is tight and there's  plenty left to do like the brakes that don't break that's really bad you can see all the way around  the edge there how warm this disc is it feels like it's worse on the back it's quite a lot of rust  on it the discs need to be swapped over which will cost only 40 pounds if we're okay with aftermarket  gear which we are but getting the discs out is going to be tough they're rusted into the caliper  I'm just

pushing them piston back in the caliper and I've got a screwdriver in it because I'm  replacing these discs it doesn't matter if I mark them so I'm pushing them right in so it just  slides straight out you'd be surprised how many issues are caused by dust and grime so a clean of  all four brakes and internals is the next job so I've cleaned all this up ready for the disc to go  back on and the caliper to go back on with the new pads in it but first I've got to change this ABS  sensor because we

've been told that it's faulty so this creates a magnetic field which is broken  and completed by the holes and in this disc here um thus sensing the speed of the wheel I saw an  ABS warning light on the test drive so once the sensor is replaced the error message will clear  when we were test drive in this car the other day we noticed that there was a very small but  very annoying little Nook coming from the front suspension so I've had a look and I've found  it's where the um anti-roll bar whic

h is the bit the links the suspension from one side to  the other to stop the car from leaning over on Corners uh has got play in one of the joints on  the bottom of the roll bar drop link which joins the roll bar to the suspension itself to the  moving part this is the movement here you can see that there has got a tiny bit of play in  it which doesn't seem like very much but it's an awful lot when you're actually driving the car  so that needs replacing great thing is it's cheap and relatively

easy this component here which is  the bit that's broken this bottom joint here is only 15 quid so it might be easy but only on paper  it's actually really hard to get the bolts undone all right before the new unit goes on I dab a little copper  slip on the joints to stop it seizing up with rust right that's the nasty knock on the suspension  sources quickly easily and for not very much money it feels good to be finalizing the smaller jobs  and getting the car to Perfection as promised in the a

uction but will the car sell it looks like  the sunny weather has got people in the spirits for buying an open-taught sports car which is  really good news and we've actually got some bids not quite up to our reserve price  but it's a step in the right direction day four is done our total spend including  the car is around a thousand pounds which is great even though academic  no one has offered to buy it it's time now to increase the sales potential  without spending any more money our little c

ar is 18 years old and to be honest it's got away with  it it doesn't look too bad most of the wheels look really good but this one has been curbed to hell  and it's really really glossy now I'm not going to spend a great deal of time on this because  we're in a bit of a hurry so using sandpaper a block of wood some masking tape two cans of paint  I'm going to make this look brilliant this have a go wheel refurbishment might seem a little  bit Pony but it is similar to a professional job you mig

ht also notice the hubcap is missing  but we've got one which only cost us a Fiverr now this isn't a proper job but it will  look tons better and that's what I'm after next up there's a gaping hole in the dash  that needs its old Pinnacle Plumbing back in my instant reaction when we had the LCD trouble  was to say okay let's just go and get one from the scrap yard but you can't do that I mean I didn't  know it at the time but Richard has told us you can't do that because they're coded each of th

ese  binacles is coded to the car that they come out of so I'm going to put this one in  and uh hopefully it's gonna work right moment of truth so when you turn the  turn the key on turn the ignition on after you've put your binacle in you're going  to have a nasty surprise because the key key light is going to flash and you won't  be able to turn the engine over but that's because during the process of fixing these and  taking them apart the key and the binical Have unsynced and apparently if y

ou take them  out for any amount of time that happens so what you have to do is you have to turn  the ignition on and leave it on with the light flashing for 10 minutes and it gives them  time to resync so let's see if that's the case foreign well at least it lights up so we've got a  fully functioning Dash now I'll leave that that's it the Audi is done we've addressed the  broken Hood fixed the cam belt and water pump replace the discs and drop links refurbish the  instrument panel fitted a new

exhaust and improved one of the wheels add in the other spares and  we're in for 1175 pounds that's insane all the good stuff of the Audi remains but all the bad  stuff like the listing says doesn't exist yeah but did you enjoy working on this car no guys I didn't  at times I felt like I'd rather be banging my head against a brick wall well I was doing that at some  point yeah you were no but you know what I learned about working on this car it stands Testament  to the Audi and German technolog

y yeah they were trying very hard weren't they when they built this  car this was their sort of Brave New World wasn't it yeah it really really was well they had to try  hard I mean look at the market they were breaking into they had to make a car which was brilliant  and they have I just want to see how it drives the test drive of the Audi TT is a private  test track outside London press versions of the TT would have been photographed here so it's  a good fit that way but more importantly if th

e engine blows up we're not far from Hell we've  got a smoking hot car it's a really good car probably best car we've ever had the best car  we've ever had our country Morrow yeah yeah oh yes cars awesome the last time we drove the TT  it was at 20 miles an hour and this is supposed to be a performance car it's time to set the Beast  free this thing has got a little bit of poke isn't it yeah it still feels amazing I mean it really  does feel amazing so it's very smooth delivery of power yeah and

the steering feels great  the gearbox and the gear change feels really Progressive and I'm not just saying that because  it took me all day to sudo fix it and then 10 minutes to fix it I do actually mean that it feels  great and if you think this car was much aligned it was really between this and the Boxster  wasn't it and people looked at the box and said oh that's a that's a purist sports car  this is based on a golf but in actual fact if this four-wheel drive system and it's got ample  powe

r yeah actually this is the car you'd have it it is yeah the 4x4 system is the cleverest one of  its generation and certainly of its time I for me it would be the one to have so who is lined up to  have this one we didn't fix this car up to have a lot we're a business and to keep afloat we need  to double our money and that means bids of 2400 as a minimum we've had some interest but is it  close Will's been keeping an eye on the figures and should know we don't have anybody wanting  to buy us at

2795 which is a Pity obviously we don't even have anybody coming  in at 2 400 for a reserve price which is shown but I have got a small  confession though oh okay you know um you know my missus has taken a bit of  a shine to this car no that is a terrible terrible business model we're not in business to  do up cars to sell to ourselves we're never going to get top money and also if they break we'll  end up fixing them ourselves I thought you might say that yeah I've got another confession you'r

e  right you're right but I'm sure there's a way we could do it clearly we're going to get more money  for this car someone else but is it than you do a partnership is a fragile thing we're a business  and that's the way it is we'll must understand I cannot let this car go cheap it's too good if we  can't sell it at the right price now we'll have to keep it until we can this is a dilemma isn't  it there's only one way forward my misses must deal directly with Gus and make a decent offer  if he c

an live with it fine if he says no for the sake of our friendship and more importantly  our business I've got to accept it hello podcast how are you hello there all right I'm all right  yeah fine Hello darling Hello darling now I think it's honorable for me at the moment to bow out of  the business transaction we were saying anyway it seemed like a a bizarre thing to do selling to  family and friends but actually don't make any odds does it I mean if you want it you want  it that's the way it is

I kind of agree with you because this you know this is your business  but over the last week you've both been talking about this car I have so been missing having a  sports car but it depends how much you want it doesn't it that's the that's the kit excellent  that's also good I want it you're going to talk price aren't you I know what you're gonna that's  where we were going this is an honest car with and I I really like that um but under  this you know it's an oldish car under that you've sti

ll got you know an iconic  mark one you've got the Quattro it's you know the big engine yes I'd offer you the 2400 Reserve  well I think we'd bite your armor for that yes that was easy yeah brilliant thank you 2 400 pounds of proper  cash is paid into our kitty no warranty is implied or given we've doubled our money and put 50  Quid on top I think this proves it we're back foreign