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I've always wanted to get back into a B5 after selling my 2002 back in 2006 after only owning it for a year.
When I came across this beauty I knew I had to jump on it. I haven't seen an Avant in this good of shape in a long time. It only has 111K km's and drive's amazing. Only after market part is a turbo timer so the turbo's have been babied.
There are a few differences I've noticed from the US Avant's and the Canadian Sedans. For starters, Mine is a 2000 and NA did not get the Avant until 2001 so it has the earlier badges. It comes with the Euro bumper and the Carbon Fiber Trim with the blue weave like the RS2 had. It doesn't have the Bose Stereo system but it has the Symphony head unit. If anyone has an old head unit from the NA A4/S4 from 1999-2002 I'd love to make a deal with you. The Japanese go their own unit with a frequency range that doesn't match ours so I can only get Shine FM!!
It comes with the Xenon headlights and foglights that the Canadian sedans didn't get. I bought a polishing kit and the lights now look much clearer.
After spending the weekend detailing it, I'm amazed at the condition of the paint. The hood has been repainted at some point but all the rest of the panels appear to be original with barely any chips.
Looking forward to driving this for a while and deciding if it's worth modifying or whether I should hold out for the an RS4.
These photo's are from my drive home last week from Vancouver to Calgary. This is before I detailed it so it looks even better now!
When I came across this beauty I knew I had to jump on it. I haven't seen an Avant in this good of shape in a long time. It only has 111K km's and drive's amazing. Only after market part is a turbo timer so the turbo's have been babied.
There are a few differences I've noticed from the US Avant's and the Canadian Sedans. For starters, Mine is a 2000 and NA did not get the Avant until 2001 so it has the earlier badges. It comes with the Euro bumper and the Carbon Fiber Trim with the blue weave like the RS2 had. It doesn't have the Bose Stereo system but it has the Symphony head unit. If anyone has an old head unit from the NA A4/S4 from 1999-2002 I'd love to make a deal with you. The Japanese go their own unit with a frequency range that doesn't match ours so I can only get Shine FM!!
It comes with the Xenon headlights and foglights that the Canadian sedans didn't get. I bought a polishing kit and the lights now look much clearer.
After spending the weekend detailing it, I'm amazed at the condition of the paint. The hood has been repainted at some point but all the rest of the panels appear to be original with barely any chips.
Looking forward to driving this for a while and deciding if it's worth modifying or whether I should hold out for the an RS4.
These photo's are from my drive home last week from Vancouver to Calgary. This is before I detailed it so it looks even better now!
Back to the multimeter. I started checking continuity on all the wires between the ECU, EGT's and MAF which are all connected. I ended up with no continuity on 2 circuits going into the ECU at pins 50 and 53. One wire was Violet/Green (li/gn) and the other wire was Violet/Grey (li/gr). Sure enough when I was putting all the wires back into the ECU harness I mixed these two wires up. A quick swap of the two wires and the car is now fault free!!
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