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Ooooh damn! More then a year since my latest update here on Irry. I’m a bit ashamed! I will try to do better in the future. In this update I’ve also added some old pictures I found that might be out of interest.

A lot have happened to the car and in my life in general. But who cares about life in genera!? Let’s take a look at what happened to the car instead. It’s hard to remember everything but I’ll try to write about he big stuffs at least

During the summer 2004 the RS2 front spoiler and the cup spoiler was finally mounted on the car. The parts were painted and I thought everything was a done deal. But you know how it is… =/ The parts were painted in two rounds and the parts that were painted in the second round (hood, fenders and one set of the brake ducts) got the wrong black color! Black isn’t just as simple as black. Those parts got a blueish black that’s far from correct. The painter has said that we’ll take a look at this but the car has been broken and non moveable ever since. =( In addition it was a really bad paintjob and the front spoiler is already, after a few 100 miles, blasted from small stones.

After the summer I broke the rear right drive shaft cv joint at a stop light in Gävle. Did a 6000 rpm start when the light turned to green but the car didn’t move. First I thought it was the gearbox or rear diff but when I finally had the time to look at it, it turned out to be the outer cv joint for the rear right side that had failed on me. Big thanks once again to Sebban who towed me home and to quattromaniac for borrowing me the tools I needed. Found a complete drive shaft at a scrap yard and bought new cv joint rubber boots for it. I had to do that operation in my apartment in Gävle since I didn’t have a good garage back then. There was grease all over the place for a long long time. =) The family living in the apartment under me rang on my door when I was in the middle of the work. They were angry as hell and on some cryptic combination of Swedish and Russian yelled that I should stop making such a noise. In all fairness I had forgot what the time was and I was making one hell of a noise when I was hammering the cv joint onto the drive shaft. When they rang on the door they “kindly” informed me that it was closer to 23:00. Ooops.

I got the drive shaft mounted on the car just before the first snow fell. So I drove the car home to my parents for winter holding and temporary deregistration. Once I took it out again in 2005 it was time for MOT. I didn’t want to change to the original taillights so I bought some orange LED indicator bulbs (red turn signal is not legal in Sweden on newer cars). I barley got through the MOT with these LEDs. He looked at them for a long long time and closely. But he never said anything, but he took out his inner anger on the cracked RS2 mirror glass. He also complained on the top mounts that didn’t go as smooth as they should. And sure, I can agree that they didn’t and I said too hum that it must be because of the car is lowered. The top mounts were brand new and just mounted on the car so there was no way in hell there could be something wrong with them. I asked him to try it on the ground instead but he refused and told me I had to fix it and come back in with the car. =( So I went home, angry as hell. Removed the top mounts and drove in to Audi and showed them to the mechanics. They said there was no problem what so ever with them and that I just should put new grease in them and reassemble it all. I actually drove past the MOT and showed the top mounts to the guy too that said that they looked ok.

After a few hours in the garage everything was cleaned up and reassembled. I took the opportunity to adjust the shock absorbers to a firmer setting. Before I went to the MOT I went to Audi once again and they took a look at it and said that all was looking good, they told me too call if something was wrong. This time around I got a more sympathetic MOT guy that also came to the conclusion that they were a bit sluggish. But he didn’t think they were any security risk so he passed the car. Woohoo!

After this me and the car was up in Gävle. I was supposed to have showed it for the painter but he was on vacation until August. =( Since I now was done with my studies at University I moved down to the parents for a while. Though it didn’t take long before I got a job in Stockholm so in August I moved up there. The weekend before I would start at the new job I was on my way from Stockholm home to the parents. On the highway when I was cruising at 90-100km/h there was a loud noise, somewhat like a jackhammer. At first I thought they were drilling outside of the car on some construction site but the noise followed the speed of my car. All I could do was to pull over and try to see what it was. Couldn’t really see anything but all pointed at the gearbox. Luckily enough I had stopped the car on a Hotels parking lot. So I checked in for the night and the day after dad and a friend of his picked me and the S2 up. We loaded the Bathmobile on the car trailer and drove home.

It took until November before I had the time too remove the gearbox. But for sure it was the gearbox that had broken down. Some large gear parts fell out of it. =/ Couldn’t find anyone that could repair it so instead I looked for a replacement gearbox. I guess I was lucky because I found a RS2 gearbox on a scrap yard. I mounted it last weekend but can’t test it for a few months since the car is in pieces.

I have probably missed something now since I’m tired and exhausted. So stay tuned for more updates and some corrections to this post! =) Also have to update the specification with a couple of thousands.

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