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Audi A4 door strips removal & installation
10 March 2014
My passenger side door strips had picked up a nice collection of car park war scars in their 10 years of existence and needed some attention. The Audi workshop manual states these can't be removed without destroying them, so I…
A4 is back from the bodyshop
10 March 2014
Picked up the car from JD Autos on Thursday afternoon and Richard had done an awesome job. I've only just got around to fitting the tinted fog lights and putting the grilles back in the front bumper. All black everything…
Tinting the A4 fog lights
03 March 2014
The A4 was dropped off at the bodyshop this morning and I won't see it again for a week while the bumpers and lots of panels are given fresh coats of Audi Akoya Silver. Wanting to have everything ready for…
Tail light lens tinting
10 February 2014
Getting the little jobs tied up while I wait for the A4 to go into the bodyshop, this weekend was tinting the tail lights. I didn't want to completely black out each one, the indicator lines meet the line across…
A4/S4 Headlight tinting experiments
19 January 2014
My S4 headlight lenses could do with a bit of buffing as they're looking little cloudy, but for the time being I thought I'd try tinting them as I had some stuff laying around. So I had a can of…
Retrofit OEM B6 S4 Xenon headlights into A4
14 January 2014
Finally a nice easy little job! Turns out the OEM S4 Xenon headlights are a simple (almost) plug and play upgrade, even if coming from regular A4 halogens. The plugs/connectors are the same, no VCDS coding required, no wiring. Just four…
The Audi, Android, Bluetooth, iPod dock, OEM radio Fiasco
17 December 2013
You can connect an android phone to your audi factory radio, you just have to go against everything you (as an android phone owner) believe in and buy an Apple product... sort of... Plans for the AV/Nav setup in the…
The A4’s alive!
07 December 2013
After all the seats went back in and the airbags were all hooked up it was safe to reconnect the battery and see if the A4 would come back to life. I'd been trickle charging the battery for around 18…
Deep cleaning Interior seats and carpet
02 December 2013
This isn't really my kind of thing, but 10 years and 100,000+ miles takes it's toll on a car's interior. To roll back some of the years I thought I'd have a go at deep cleaning the seats and carpet…
Preventing the common Audi A4/S4 Glovebox hinge break
30 November 2013
Broken glove box hinges are another common issue with the B6 A4 and S4 (maybe the B7 A4/S4 and RS4 too?), if yours is broken, it's broken, there's not much you can do about it. You either replace the whole…
Audi A4 Alcantara Dash (part 2)
24 November 2013
It's winter, I'm cold, and I want to be in my car with the heaters on maximum melting the ice on the road ahead from fifty feet away. I got a little step closer to this by finally getting the…
Lots of work, zero progress
18 November 2013
A really annoying weekend. While I'm still waiting for my airbag cover to come back from Plush I thought I'd drop my new rear springs in; a nice easy job for the weekend? Wrong. Half of Saturday was spent looking…