my new ride!
 

<center><img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/28417/my_a4_3.jpg"></center><p>well it looks like I will be joining you all from the 80/90 forum. I needed to get a car with some more room for business purposes. I got a pretty good deal on this 1999.5 A4 avant 1.8t with a manual tranny and black leather interior. I think the first mods that I am going to do to it are the S4 engine mounts, allroad tranny mounts, and a purems snub. Of course I will need to check the thing over and replace the cooland, brake fluid, tranny and diff fluid. Probably a new timing belt too since the car has 101,000 on the clock.

Nice
 

If you don't have any records for it, I would hesitate drving it far at all without doing that TB job.

Yeah I feel the same way you do...
 

I have relatives who live near it so I am probably going to do the tb at their house before I take it back home. Unless that is there is record of it being done recently.

welcome, i made a similar progression :)

welcome YFF..
 

you definatley have a very desirable year... chip?.. oh and quattro?

jeeeessshhhh its another avant!

have you done your TB?

Hot sauce.

Haha
 

Not yet. I'm ordering the parts this week.

I see you stepped up to quattro as well!
 

Congratulations on the purchase.

just so you know, its pleather not leather
 

B5 A4's didn't have leather option. Pleather or cloth

1.8T B5 A4s you mean
 

It was available on the 2.8.

Wow, good eyes... I can barely see that little thing

right, and "leatherette" for the 1.8t if you want to get technical ;-)

Watch the movie "Tomcats" for a laugh when they use that word.

Thankyou!

No chip but it is a quattro...
 

I love this year mainly because of the 1 piece headlights and updated steering wheel, although this one has the 4 spoke wheel not the 3. :o(

This is true...
 

some of my friends also call it leatherette, I will probably end up looking for a decent set of S4 seats for it someday.

LOL!
 

I love the part of that movie where the guy is doing this chick doggiestyle with her head out the car window and she was pukeing.

He purchased a 1.8T
 

I was commenting on that. Perhaps I should have also stated that they were available on the 2.8 only.


thanks...

leatherette is the proper name, as that's what Audi calls it

I would rather have a sedan but I need the room...
 

at least its alot better looking and better to drive than most other wagons.

Avants rule - congrats!

Amen to that

don't run down leatherette too hard
 

My car's five years old and the leatherette looks practically new. No cracks or other flaws. Not a bad seat at all.

Agreed, now if it only had some good bolstering...

7 years old here, and it's just about perfect