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…

Audi A4 Alcantara Dash (part 1)

22 October 2013 I got my beautifully trimmed dash back from Luke at Plush Automotive on Friday night, along with my centre console. After months of searching for a good, reliable trimmer I'm really pleased I went to Plush as Luke's done a…

B6 Audi A4 armrest lid breakdown

12 October 2013 Us B6/B7 A4 owners are all aware our armrest lid catches are prone to breaking. Replacing this can be expensive, especially if it's trimmed in leather or Alcantara and I'd previously read the upholstered top of the lids couldn't be…

Breaking Bad (B6 S4 Breaking)

02 October 2013 How good was the finale to Breaking Bad!? Truly awesome TV. To help me come to terms with the fact that Breaking Bad was coming to an end, over the last couple of weeks I've been getting involved with some…

A4 Headliner Alcantara retrim

23 September 2013 As I've mentioned before, I had to scale-down my retrim plans slightly when my quote for half the job was my budget for the whole lot. This could be pretty easily rectified by doing half the job myself. This weekend…

A4 Centre console progress

09 September 2013 Modified the centre console this weekend as it seems I'm stuck with it for a while until the retrimmer can fit me in. I Decided that deleting the storage recess would save the retrimmer some work (and in turn save…