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Nick
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Mon Sep 12, 2005 2:58 pm Post subject:
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Hi
I have an A3 (2001) that am about to sell. Since I am european I had the
Ausi dealer change the display (mileage & computer info) from imperial
readings to metric. The salesman told me it was a very easy job to change -
just hook it up to a computer and change the factory defaults. Another Audi
dealer now says that the whole unit has to be changed (lots ££££) in other
for it to go back to imperial meassurements.
What to think? What to believe?
Was it a bigger job to change it initially than the dealer (seller) told me?
Or is the the new dealer (buyer) just trying to make money off a false
claim? Or does he not know his product well enough to know it is only a
matter of hooking it up to a computer.
Who is right here?
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Graham
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Mon Sep 12, 2005 10:23 pm Post subject:
Re: A3 change metric/imperial |
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Nick wrote:
| Quote: | Hi
I have an A3 (2001) that am about to sell. Since I am european I had the
Ausi dealer change the display (mileage & computer info) from imperial
readings to metric. The salesman told me it was a very easy job to change -
just hook it up to a computer and change the factory defaults. Another Audi
dealer now says that the whole unit has to be changed (lots ££££) in other
for it to go back to imperial meassurements.
What to think? What to believe?
Was it a bigger job to change it initially than the dealer (seller) told me?
Or is the the new dealer (buyer) just trying to make money off a false
claim? Or does he not know his product well enough to know it is only a
matter of hooking it up to a computer.
Who is right here?
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I don't know for certain, but one would imagine that if the change can
be made one way then it can be made the other way just as easily.
Why not just go back to the original dealer who did the change and ask
them to change it back? |
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Nick
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Tue Sep 13, 2005 12:23 am Post subject:
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Going back to the original dealer is what I want to do, but I thought it
could be interesting to know if an official Audi dealer was trying to pull a
trick like that.
"Graham" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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Nick wrote:
Hi
I have an A3 (2001) that am about to sell. Since I am european I had the
Ausi dealer change the display (mileage & computer info) from imperial
readings to metric. The salesman told me it was a very easy job to
change - just hook it up to a computer and change the factory defaults.
Another Audi dealer now says that the whole unit has to be changed (lots
££££) in other for it to go back to imperial meassurements.
What to think? What to believe?
Was it a bigger job to change it initially than the dealer (seller) told
me?
Or is the the new dealer (buyer) just trying to make money off a false
claim? Or does he not know his product well enough to know it is only a
matter of hooking it up to a computer.
Who is right here?
I don't know for certain, but one would imagine that if the change can be
made one way then it can be made the other way just as easily.
Why not just go back to the original dealer who did the change and ask
them to change it back?
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Pete
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Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:45 am Post subject:
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| Quote: | I have an A3 (2001) that am about to sell. Since I am european I had
the
Ausi dealer change the display (mileage & computer info) from
imperial readings to metric. The salesman told me it was a very easy
job to change - just hook it up to a computer and change the factory
defaults. Another Audi dealer now says that the whole unit has to be
changed (lots ££££) in other for it to go back to imperial
meassurements.
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That dealer is an idiot. Go to another one or find someone with a
VAG-COM tool - it's a 1 minute job if you know what you're doing. I've
gone back and forth between different units on my '01 A4 numerous times.
Cheers,
Pete |
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Nick
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Wed Sep 14, 2005 7:20 am Post subject:
Re: A3 change metric/imperial |
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Thanks Pete
Exactly the answer I was hoping for. I must let the dealer know! Fool!
"Pete" <escape2music@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I have an A3 (2001) that am about to sell. Since I am european I had the
Ausi dealer change the display (mileage & computer info) from imperial
readings to metric. The salesman told me it was a very easy job to
change - just hook it up to a computer and change the factory defaults.
Another Audi dealer now says that the whole unit has to be changed (lots
££££) in other for it to go back to imperial meassurements.
That dealer is an idiot. Go to another one or find someone with a VAG-COM
tool - it's a 1 minute job if you know what you're doing. I've gone back
and forth between different units on my '01 A4 numerous times.
Cheers,
Pete
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