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I have been contacted by the press who are doing an artical on the ashes car he has asked for comments on the following so what do we all think

what has ashes to ashes has done for Audi owners - is it harder to find parts at the moment due to demand caused by the show? Do you think its unfair for the BBC to be championing a particular brand or do you think its great for Audi?

post away :D

Damn, this could be an interesting thread!


1) It's made people who own red quattro's look like they are stuck in the '80's!

2) It's made people who drive other coloured quattro's seemingly a lot less gheyer!!

3) Every person who has listed a normal Type 85 coupe GT in blue/white or black on eBay has then used the phrase "just like the ones used in Ashes to Ashes"

4) Every Audi quattro owner (male!!) has a fetish for Keeley Hawes.

It's made me realise that Audi actually made 4762 swb quattros, cause everybody comes up to me and tells me their; Mate, Mum, Uncle, vicar, gardener or pool man has one except its a proper swb rally one....

Seriously though all i think it's done is bring a load of sheds out of sheds that people seem to think are worth £10k.

The disgraceful way Audi treat the parts situation, is one of the reasons we are very unlikely to spend money being brand loyal on the newer stuff.

Sometimes, when I'm on my own, late at night, I like to imagine there might be female owners who have a fetish for Keeley (Amanda excluded from this paticular fantasy- no offence meant :D )

Seriously though- what silly questions.

Parts are a joke
Darren is bang on. it was bad enough before a2a but every one that had a gt or a cq years ago seems to think they had a Ur now........and the number of cocks at traffic lights that shout 'Fire up the quattro!' at you is getting very tiresome

Parts are a joke

plus points.....even young kiddies know w a quatt now....we have a lot of young uns walk past the garage at the side of our house and they all admire the cars in a positive way. Harry and George (!) two young lads of 9 and 10 are into Scoobies and look upon the quatt with reverance....very cool in a way :rock:

ps Parts are a joke

No they don't Gene Hunt is is hot not keely :devil:

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Well,I'll answer

OK,Im not a Quattro owner and dont particularly aspire to own one....

I was susprised they chose to use a Quattro and was pleased they did.It could have been the Cosworth or one of the faster Escorts,being far more typical and more affordable at the time.Mind you he is a DCI!!!

It doesnt make parts more or less obtainable for me as I own the later style B4 Coupe V6,so not relevant.

My car gets more looks now,this I have noticed.Its probable that its due to some of the gawpers (kids) are Ashes fans and are looking to see if this is some sort of Quattro!

Where I live,I have seen an increase in the amount of non-forum registered Quattros,WR and MB,on the road.All of these are texted to Amanda,with reg no.
Im not sure if she does anything with this info or just laughs at me,but just in case there really is some kind of register being kept.

Steve:tup:

When prople ask me what car I have in the garage I seem to get a lot more interested people now whereas before it was more of "oh ok". Quite a few people seem to say to me fire up the quattro, to which I say "I Cant" lol. It has definately affected the scene there is a lot more for sale, I think every decent car gets a boost every so often whether it top gear , 5th gear, tv program etc, but eventually it all settles down again. Eventually all that will be left is decent ones and no parts. Hence why I am fitting a newer engine and running gear. I think the trick is to store as many parts as you can now instead of waiting for the drought of parts that will eventually happen. Cant wait to "Fire up the Quattro" lol...

Agree....

Why would they care?

" you own one of the Quattro thing's in Ashes to Ashes" No I f**cking dont. Its 2 wheel drive you dick heads and it got GT ON THE BOOT, and have you not noticed, where the F**K are my boxed wheel arches!!! Sorry about that.
Love the show but you average punter wouldnt know the difference between a GT and a UR if it slapped them in the face!
Plus everybody thinks you are driving it as a fashion statement.
Biggest rant is how prices have suddenly gone up on spare's. Bloody Audi need to look at this problem. Im going to take prozac now.:lol::lol::lol:

Try here and keep off the prozac ;)

http://www.audi-nla.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=218

some of the specialists prices have gone funny too :razz:

Thanks my Love!, will write a rant on there as well, mumble mumble twitch twitch bloody Audi!!!

oh good... my street cred just went up then:D:ihih:

Audi has NO intentions of ever doing a heritage facility and as I was saying to Amanda earlier, with this European/British scrappage system coming into force then quiet frankly there is going to be a load of "older" cars binned and supposing you see a car sat at a dealers traded in, can you go and ask to buy it from the dealer or is it destined to be scrappped even if you want to buy or or explain that this car has parts you need to maintain your own so can you remove parts you need or do you have to follow it to the breakers and ask if you can pick at it first.... PPWWWWWEASE?

A2A:rolleyes::rolleyes: its bringing to light " The quattro" again and a few folk shout out "fire up the quattro" if and when they see one out on the road, they'd better have a good look because the way things are currently going, there wont be too many to look at working because NLA parts got the better of us.

Yes there is an influx of cars on ebay under the tag as described earlier.... its a SAD attempt to make a few quid on a barn find or grand dads heap clogging up the bottom of the garden so while A2A advertises the quattro it has a flash in the pan opportunity to palm off a banger.... and some of them advertises its just that!!!!

Its an advert Audi doesnt really need since its not advertising a new model but what REALLY RIPS MY KNITTING is that Audi take great delight in wheeling out their factory fresh RARA at any opportunity for a new model promotion then wheel it back into its air conned box until next time:mad::mad:


whats wrong with Keeley's Drawes??????????:hand:

The short answers? It's made no difference trying to find parts (can't really see why it would), BBC aren't championing a current product and I'm sure Audi think its all good.


I suspect most people still don't know what the car is, or particulary care. It's an old Audi to them, and one to try and overtake.......:devil:

Still one of the best drives for under £50k for me though, or even double that. :ihih:

That's more to do with the fact that the pound is worth about as much as a handful of cocoa beans.

Serious opportunity here to get some press for the dire parts situation.

Dont think that cos you own a newer Audi that it wont affect you, cos it will as they continue to pursue the same policy across the range.

I like my 26 year old car, i like the fact that its dated, its like me, stuck in an 80's timewarp, i dont want a newer car cos then ill have to update my wardrobe ( take about 2 mins), i dont want a car from the 90's or the noughties they all look the freaking same- quite frankly most look sh*t and have no soul or any distinguishing character, heck they even mostly sound the same. B-O-R-I-N-G.

The way i see it, the beeb decided to use a really cool car( Audi seem to want to bury it) to sell their product to us and well, we went out and bought it wholeheartedly and ogled Keeleys nips , so hows about they return the favour and put some pressure on the head honcho's at Audi to get this crappy parts situation resolved so we can continue to "Fire up the Quattro".

that would mean all prices would go loopy , they aint Coxxy but one or two are using it as an excuse as they can leg us up....bear in mind i bring stuff in and buy a lot of imported stuff too

you could always stage a 'protest' at Festival of Speed??

Just an idea, but Audi are celebrating 100 years and they are the main marque at the show.
There will be a lot of bods from Audi HQ there prancing around with their new models on show, and such cars as the new TTRS etc etc.

Could just get all the quattros/80's/90's/100's and just form a bit of a quite blockade, and when they ask us all to move, we just reply "we would if we could, but the car isn't working because I'm after a part for it which you discontinued 1 min 38 seconds after production ceased..."

Just an idea like. Kinda piss on their parade a bit!

It's what caused VAG parts to fold though.

IMHO: it won't do much: 'interest' wained a few months after the last series & will again after this final series. Interest in this context = people who are not normally out & out Audi Coupe fans suddenly thinking their car will be worth more now. Whilst it is good to see the Ur on the screen & GH is given the impression of driving it hard; the way it is featured does not do much for the marque (hell it can't even out-run an Austin Princess! [episode2]) except remind people they were an 80's icon. As for Audi I don't expect they're bothered either way & it would have made no odds to them if the BBC had chosen an XR3i: all they do is make another bin load of parts obsolete every month. Why do I always choose a car that's hard to get parts for :wierdo: Cheers.

tecnically yes but if so all the other would have gone tooo, it was the beancounter that did them so i heard as their margins were very very tight

I've noticed more people chase me in there cars since the second series of Ashes 2 Ashes started.

Oh,.. did i say chase me?? What I meant was, over take and leave me for dust. :(

first an old toyota cilica stepped on me,
then A red MK2 escort peed on me last week, (that was rapid to be fair)

& I even had a white pug 106 rallie I couldn't shake one day, even on the swisty's., & As if that wasn't bad enough, he then closed the gap, just so i knew not only was he as fast as me, but he was faster . He gives me a toot! of his french horn when ever he sees me in town now. Looks like i've made a friend. lol :D

Kind of like my idea for the 30 year celebrations next year, to hit the Audi Museum and strip all of the cars in there for the parts to keep ours going lol!

Must be an odd day for A2A related things...

Hmmm you been reading my my mind ;)

can i just say quickly,.. i like ashes to ashes. :tup: even if some ppl dont.

yes i like ashes to ashes , yes i have an old audi quattro ur, yes it has increased the valve of the car, and that it. But what pissed me off is when i approach the top guy at audi ,s international show last year in castle coombes, and i asked him about the parts siruration on all old audi but my quattro ur, he looked at me and could not answer the question but said look on internet, so i asked him why he could not support this car ie quattro ur , which give them huge success in the 1980s in the rally world, to which his pr bitch tried to get stuffy with me, so i asked him w3hy its easy to get parts for older triumphs, mimis, vw, fords etc etc etc ,again he did not answer, so my final point to him was WHY should I buy a R8 or any new audi, when in 8 years all parts will be deleted for all audis of today, he did not like my comments or the truth spoken to him at all and yes i did point out that ashes to ashes , series one had highen the demand for older audi quattro ur and coupes, but we all suffer from crap parts or lack of the supply for them. yes in the end the pr bitch did get stuffy, to which i asked her did she know what a quattro was and had she driven one to which on both answer the bitch said NO, so what can i say???????????????????????????? any commentguys

The parts situation is annoying, but TBH why should Audi give a stuff about us?
I don't have any interest in the kids I knocked around with in school 30 yrs ago so why should Audi care about stuff they made back then?
I imagine the average punter who is buying a new Audi doesn't care if theres no parts available in 8yrs time. They almost certainly wont own it! (if they ever did- I imagine most audi sales are to business users etc) The car will be owned by its 3 or 4th owner who has it maintained by a local garage. Theres no money in it for Audi, who are a business not a charity.
lets put pressure on Audi and hope they help out of the goodness of their hearts because there's no business advantage in it.
I suggested to the QOC chairman that Philip Glennister was made an honuary member. I would have thought that would have made a few paragraphs in "The Sun" . Never heard anything back.
The only effect A2A has had for me is that Monday nights are something I look forward to and the inclusion of a quattro is a nice bonus.

Id have to push mine all the way i think.... thats if i can get the bloody wheels back on it otherwise im carrying the bugger on my back. See ya there. :D

I see the answer to this question as follows.

Customer loyalty to the brand.

If the suits at Audi AG dont give piss in a pot about us, Audi buyers, promoters, drivers and parts buyers then its a sure fire way to cut your own throat.
It makes no sense from a viewpoint of business to alienate the very people who you depend on to promote your products by driving them and showing them to others.

Why did i drive a GT Coupe for 13 years? Because i liked the product, its precisely why ive bought Quasi, because i like the product and to me at least, the year it was made means little.
I dont expect the lack of a brake pipe flexi or a diff seal to put a perfectly good vehicle off the road for what one of those costs.

Carry on Audi suits and beancounters, keep on taking a dump on the people who you rely on and see where it ends.
Not many can afford an R8 at 50 grand plus and at this rate theyll be selling even fewer.

And breathe.... :)

Ps, make Phillip Glenister an honorary Classic Audi member if QOC dont want to know. :)

thats a well put point, but if we're honest we are not Audis key customers.
Have a look at how many new audis there are on the road. Have a look at what type of people they are and have a chat to the drivers.
How many do you think know anything about old audis, or know what a quattro is, or care?
there several co-directors of my wifes company who drive audis. - an A8, an A5, a S5 and 1 R8.
none of them made any comment on my quattro when the wife borrowed it one day, probably because they didn't know what it was exactly and being the "petrolheads" that they are, they didn't want to appear stupid infront of a woman.
Apart from the R8 (which is the CEs, who also has 2 911s) the cars are all company cars. They dont have any brand loyalty, dont care what its worth after 3 years and they aren't intersted in parts availability for old audis. These are typical Audi owners and Audis marketing department target them fairly succesfully.
Not a bad idea makiung PG an honuary member of ClassicAudi, but what would we get out of it? The QOC stood to gain publicity and from thjat leverage on the parts situatrion IMO

Dont shoot me down if this has already been done. Has anybody ever got a petition together of every classic Audi owner in the UK, get a bloody great convoy to Ingastade with all the press and tv to boot and bloody embaress them to death by knocking on the door of HQ. Im sure the motoring press would have a bloody field day. Audi are in the shit at the moment, their cars are not flying of the shelves, do they need more adverse press! Just a though!

be easier and cheaper to drive to Milton Keynes!!!


and less chance of breaking down!

Chaps,

perhaps you should all switch to BMW? I never have any trouble getting bits for my 1982 323i. :devil:

http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2007/08...s-for-old.html

Ok then converge at UK H/O. Need to do something. Im not desperate for any major parts today, but tomorrow?

The Dark Side!!!!:moon:

not trying to be on a downer but does anyone at Milton Keynes actually have any say with what the main office does?
iMO the only hope is if a new "top-man" at Audi actually has a love and interest in Audis heritage and he decides "sod the cost- lets do it!"

Amandas being doing loads of this sort of thing over the years . I'm sure she 'll let you know what shes done

Milton Keynes have little influence and TBH they have pushed on the collective behalf of 'us' but got little achieved, some notable things like those new wings were done but not very well ( got a pair here )
rather than the polite protestations maybe we should go armed with catapults, paintbombs and stinkbombs AND chain Amanda to the head honcho....:devil: