PetrolDave

On the RS4 forum of rs246.com I'm trying to get Chopper to provide some independent evidence to back up his claims, but he seems strangely unwilling to provide any... Time to ignore him I think.

Try checking the wiring to the switch, then changing the switch.

A few years ago several RS4 owners tried replacing the cyclonic separator and fitting a catch can - it made absolutely no difference to carbon build-up compared to the standard setup. So the evidence suggests that a catch can doesn't solve the underlying cause - which is why current thinking is that it's blow back of combustion products due to valve overlap.

Or write it in his native language and use Google translate...then we might be in with a chance of understanding what the problem is.

250GTO's have always sold for silly money. I was lucky enough to sit in one back in 1988 that had just been bought for £10m by a friend of the MD of the company I worked for then.

It's possible that the battery management system is incorrect, this is a fairly common problem on MMI cars.

The pinout of the BNS 5 and the RNS-E is subtly but importantly different, the Bose pin and K-Line connections are on different pins - which explains both of your problems. Take a look at the paper labels on the BNS and RNS-E and you'll see the different pin locations. Move them to the correct pins for the RNS-E and all will be OK.

Can you hear any fans or pumps running?

How old is the battery?

Only when the range on a single charge is equivalent to the range on a tank of fuel, and the recharge time is similar to the time taken to fill the tank. Unless and until that happens they won't meet the needs of people in rural areas (i.e. a significant proportion of the population) or those who have to travel long distances daily. Personally I think hydrogen fuel is a better way to go than electric...

Check out the stories today about the introduction of charges and/or increased pricing for public charging points http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28054738 Even at home don't forget that charging a battery is at best 60% efficient and with electricity at around 15p per kWh the cost of charging at home isn't insignificant either. Oh and don't get me started on the CO2 emissions from electricity generation in the UK (where most of our electricity comes from natural gas fuelled power stations... http://www.electricityinfo.org/co2emissions.php

IMHO the official mpg/CO2 figures for hybrids are so far away from what is achievable in the real world they're verging on fraudulent. Plus another scam is the the cost per mile figure quoted - currently they're running adverts on Wave105 with Tiff Needell claiming you can get from London to Brighton for less than £1 (50 miles at 2p/mile). OK so what about the cost of the electricity the night before while it was plugged in? By ignoring that they are making a fraudulent claim again IMHO.

They're in a heated test cell (so the warmup phase is much shorter) with no other traffic driving against a set accel/decel pattern that bear no relationship to how traffic behaves in the real world. Manufacturers figures are comparative onl;y, they have no real meaning other than that - except if it's the figures for a hybrid when they have no meaning at all (if you don't believe me look at the CO2 and mpg figures for the Vauxhall Ampera and compare them to what a journalist got when using it for the daily commute - worse than his daily drive Golf Diesel!).

The volume (and the tone) of the OEM reversing sensors can be adjusted using VCDS, see http://wiki.ross-tech.com/wiki/index.php/Audi_A4_%288E%29_Parking_Aid_%284/8-Channel_-_8EC/8ED%29

Even my wife's 2005 Skoda Fabia 1.2 (which cost under £7k new) has the interior light package.

Points to the lack of attention to detail, and /or poor product knowledge that we've come to expect from dealers.

+1 For the last week or so TSN has been at least as fast as the other sites I visit, instead of being mind-numbingly slow.

Seems to have suddenly sped up in the last couple of days - nothing changed at my end. Getting BT Infinity on Friday

TSN is so ridiculously slow I barely visit here now, but ALL the other websites and forums I visit are fine.

He's still actively posting on audiforum.us, maybe he's just sharing his knowledge rather than doing it as a business now?

craigyb is still in business, try contacing him via his website http://www.tclsatnav.com/

Worth getting someone with access to VCDS to do a fault code scan first.

That article says: So we can expect to see Haldex,Torsen and e-quattro in parallel in different model ranges for several years.

I prefer the practicality of a hatch - I've had a fully boxed 600mm integrated oven into the back of my S3 hatch (to get it home from B&Q), you couldn't do that in a saloon.

I've never paid full price on the 1 x S3, 2 x S4 and 1x RS4 that I've bought from an Audi dealer - nor have I taken their first offer on finance rate, told them what interest rate I was earning and the cash and if they weanted the commission they had to make if financially worth my while not to just pay cash and lose the interest. It's surprising what they can do when pushed...