Top 5 Things I Dislike About My Audi TT
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- Опубликовано: 3 июл 2024
- What annoys you about your car that you wish you could change, i share mine in this video...
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In October last year I did a 4000 km road trip in my 98 TT, with 320 000 km on board. No spare parts, no tools. Car did great, a better mileage then expected and would take it on another long journey without any worries. Just after the trip, went for the technical inspection and the plastic tube from oil stick became pieces, and now there are plastic bits in the oil pan. Should sort before comes out of hibernation. We own these cars for what they are and we should enjoy them with every chance we get.
Well said! Glad you are putting the car to good use, wow that is a lot of mileage. It is clocked up over the years. I would fully recommend taking the sump off and checking the oil pick up pipe as well as cleaning out before using it again last thing you want is low pressure.
You could'nt be more accurate about the lack of trust and the numerous failures that might occur during a journey but we love them don't we ?
Glad I’m not the only one, what is it they say the only way to face a problem is deal with it head on… I feel a road trip coming on 😂
Would I trust my car? Yep, why not? Thats what my breakdown cover is for! 😃
There is that 😂
My 2005 has the cup holder. I actually love it. It took a while to get used to it… but i have no trouble using it. I can’t complain about the shifter, because mine are paddles on the steering wheel- it’s the DSG- which shifts faster and better than any manual. I agree about the cluster and screen. I had mine replaced. I never noticed any issue with rain. As to reliability. My TT has been my daily driver since 2007. It has been the most reliable car I have ever owned with literally the lowest cost of ownership in terms of repairs. In 17 years of it, I’ve had a $45 brake light switch go bad. And just recently, had to replace the fuel pump. And I did replace the cluster because the center screen went wonky. That’s it for mechanical other than scheduled maintenance. I did have the head liner redone since it’s been parked in the sun ever since I bought it and had started to pull loose. Of course, aside from the woman who leased it for 2 years before I bought it with only 14K miles on it, i have been the only driver of this car, and I don’t mistreat it. The DSG won’t allow me to go over redline or lug the engine. And mine doesn’t have ‘launch control’ and is strictly OEM with the S-Line tuning. Whereas a lot of used TT’s out there likely have been ridden hard and often put away wet by the testosterone crowd.
Hi Dom. Agree with you on all 5. The roof rainwater issue made me laugh. I open the door when wet ant try getting in as fast as I can to try and beat the flow 😂 😂😂.
😂😂😂 I’m glad it’s not just me that suffers with that one
1. No cupholder unless you buy 1 or managed to get a car with 1
2. Pixelated screen
3. Working in the engine bay can be tight compared to the MK3 TT I own
4. Same as you is the trust. There is a car show on and would have liked to have taken it but its going to be a 200 mile round trip and I don't fully trust it but only had it a few months and only done a 1000 miles in it.
5. Microswitch failing on the door. I fixed mine but it was a pain till I fixed it.
I feel like we should put more trust in them and get brake down cover. Better to get out and enjoy it rather than not using it in fear the failure may not even happen 😅
@@TheParrottBros once I have fully serviced everything on it and fixed a few things I think I would trust mine more. It's got a few problems I just want to sort 1st. Plus the steering wheel is really far off but I don't want to get the tracking done as I have more suspension work to do.
@@CraigyGInDaHut1993 that’s the problem when you have lots of jobs to do, you hold off doing certain things because of other things. What are we say to people when they ask my advice is to fix the things that are most likely to leave you broken down at the side of the road first, focus on the nice looking bits last 😂
@@TheParrottBros I agree. I have bought a couple things for the interior rather than some mechanical things but I was stripping the interior to get rid of a smell in it so it made sense to change the centre console at the time. It's all mainly mechanical or things which will fail MOT I have bought. The last thing I need to sort out that will fail MOT is the blow from the exhaust. I'm guessing it's the gasket between the turbo and exhaust.
Hi Dom, re Trust. I do a 1,500 mile round trip to Germany twice a year in a 2001 136k 1.8T as my car of choice and I’ve got a newer 911 & Boxster that get left in the garage! Great for fuel, leg room and it’s mechanically easier to deal with.
That’s brilliant, for the replies I’ve had in this video it’s made me excited to get out and get some road trips under my belt 😎
I bought mine 250 miles from home and didn’t think twice about driving it home!
You have no reason not to trust it until it doesn’t let you down
I'll probably be doing the NC500 again in May (around 1500 miles for me) and I don't have any worries about that because I know the car can be recovered home if need be. I've had my 225 roadster for 17 years now and I've only been stranded twice, both because of a failing fuel pump. I'd like to take it to the Alps again (went in 2012) but would be concerned about getting it fixed or recovered if outside the UK.
Definitely correct about the “trust” issue, that is the reason why my own TT hardly ventures out, you have no idea how much the trip to the Vorsprung event last year had me on tenterhooks all the way there and back!!
Don’t know exactly why I feel this way, owned it for over 7 years now, and TBF it hasn’t broken down (as yet!)…..
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Mate! That’s mad, isn’t it, you would think it would be the opposite and you would be more worried about going out in the range Rover ha ha
It’s all the videos of watching me repair, broken things and reading on all the forums that has put you off
Ha, the P38 Rangie is actually the only member of my fleet that I have absolute confidence in, been all over the country in that without issue, to me it just seems that the mk1 TT is a bit “fragile” in comparison nowadays !!!
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I drive mine 60 miles each way to work 3 times a week. 210000 miles and no issues with driving. Sure Ive done typical maintenance. Id take it on that 1500 mi trip no problem! It drives well and is fun! Would need some tires though..lol
Great to hear that people are still dailying them, builds my trust back up that does
Great content.
I bought my most recent (2nd) TT 225 (180 000km, LHD, needing work, €3500), and drove it back home (Munich), and for the last 200km the gearstick bushings finally failed (they were clearly on the way out anyway) and my lowest gear was 3rd gear! I fixed the bushings and several other things (pick up, catch can, boost leaks, coolant temp sensor seal, ALL fluids and filters, etc) myself and drove the car around for a few thousand km.
I then checked my breakdown insurance validity 😂 and drove the car 2500km from Munich to North Yorkshire (round trip) to see family, get a new clutch fitted by Bryn, and pick up some baseball stitch seats etc that my brother had picked up for me.
The roadster never missed a beat, even though the weather was terrible, and as you mentioned I did get wet from the run off from the roof😂.
I love my TT (although I did have a pretty comprehensive toolkit and many zip ties/wire/tape in the boot).
Wouldn’t be a road trip without cable ties and duck tape 😂. Fair play to you, you’ve braved it more than most would that’s for sure. Bet it was a pretty epic road trip despite the weather
Belle vidéo 👌 😉
Dash was the first thing I got sorted when I brought mine
Makes total sense, need to know what it’s telling you is right
I agree with the trust issue, wihch is weird. My 2000 Beetle that I never serviced (100,000miles), I would drive 500 mile journeys, the gears were ropey but I just did it. My Mk1 TT(FSH) 69k miles I get a little fear of the thought of 100 miles to my mums. I think its just that you care and have paid more attention to the car. The TT engines are solid (Its a Golf!).
And yea I have a pixelated dash, meahh, i'll sort it later :)
It’s funny how it’s like that isn’t it, I always think in my mind, I’m the one who has done most of the work on this which always has me questioning myself ha ha
Yep I have grinded third a few times. Its the only gear that can hard to find during aggressive driving
Glad it’s just not me, I thought it was me trying to lift the clutch early 😂
Car will go into limp mode if there are any engine-related ECU codes. Only after something serious happens it will throw a check engine light, and after that, the next level is it won't start, so you're probably good for Scotland mate :) North 500 will be very hard on the suspension including the anti-roll bars, because the interesting rural roads there are more pot holes than asphalt.
Mines a little different as I have stand alone management and very narrow margin for seeing issues. Parameters are set quite tight.
The roads I’m not worried too much about ad the last 3 times we’ve been the roads have been for the most part better than England’s 😂
Got a 51 plate 225 and would happily jump in it and drive to Scotland.
Bad bits, only two:
1 Cloudy headlights
2 pixels
Good Ita nice to hear that others have confidence in their cars. I guess I get to hear all the woes then hear nothing when they don’t need help 😂
2 very TT common issues, have a video for both 😉
@@TheParrottBrosI used your headlamp video with great success 😎
@@darielanghilante2326 ooo awesome, always nice to know the videos are still getting out to good use
I’d agree with the gear nob reach .. my arms are quite long and when going in this after the daily car I often forget how unnaturally long you have to reach for it!
I’m glad I’m not the only one, most people who have watched this video think I’m mad 😂
Trust is 100% up there, thats why I didn't do the ring trip last year. Visibility out of the windscreen is super bad, and for a tall (and portly) guy like me the cabin is a little snug 😆 I can deal with the rest of the issue, but those are the ones I'd change if I could.
I think from sharing the video it has made me feel better about it, for me it’s all the problems people come to me with that makes me think negatively about it.
Your not a small bloke, so I can imagine you feel rather compact in the car
@@TheParrottBros Yeah totally - you're a point of contact and most people get in touch when they're up sh*t creek 😆 Oh dude - tell me about it - I got a tiny Peugeot 108 as a daily, and I was in that for a week, got in the TT and felt like I barely fit - it felt so much smaller than even the 108 😆
Could definitely feel safe to do a road trip in mine on that distance. Have fully rebuilt engine suspension the lot and it feels rock solid. Unfortunately you have to spend to get it to that point
So what you’re saying is I need to make my 23-year-old Car new by replacing everything and then I should be sweet yeah
😂👌🏻
Dom, I’d rather do that 1500 mile drive in my 3.2 than the wife’s etron. That’s pretty much 10 charges, and 20 minutes on a fast charger or 7hrs on a 7kw, or 48hrs on a 3 pin plug, you’d be back home on the back of a recovery truck before I’d be fully charged!
1. No spare in the 3.2, been caught out by that finishing work at 2am!
2. The washer bottle should be heated.
3. My fuel gauge shows 1/2 full when it’s empty.
4. Forgetting to raise the armrest so my 80 year old mother doesn’t use it as an aid to get out 😂
5. My mum not enjoying the non res exhaust as much as me 🤷🏼♂️
Hahahaha that’s a brilliant list, the 3.2 is an ultimate road trip machine, made for cruising windows down enjoying that beautiful sound.
Put a set of ear defenders in the glove box and go round and help her out save the arm rest 😂😂
I really enjoy your opinion, everything you have to say makes sense. I'm in debating mode buying one. My concern is I'm not mechanically inclined and I worry about numerous failures since I'm not rich. I would love your opinion.
These cars help you learn how to do minor fixes where needed, great community and providing you’ve watched my buyers guide your on your way to finding a great example.
Look with your eyes not your heart, if it doesn’t feel right leave it. Welcome to send me links and I can give you pointers on what to check 👌🏻
Re gear knob i changed all the bushes etc with diesel geek kit and a short shifter and it feels perfect every great slots in effortlessly with that "im cool 3 finger grip"😂
I got a short shifter on the shortest setting but first is a pain to get into
@@marcooconnor you must need to change the first gear getter bushing
That or reset the linkage if you haven’t already.
1. Changing the rusted brake pipes.
2. Changing all the water hoses to silicone and changing all the plastic water connectors
3. Rusty subframes.
4. Window lifters and door locks. Are delicate.
5. Replacing a heater matrix looks difficult.
6.Headlamps are not great.
My only major failure was the alternator. Mines been my daily for 5 years, but to do the kind of renovations I want to I need a commuter car. I love driving it. All my music is on tape & CD too!
Done oil pick up
Fuel pump ought to be done this year. Haldex oil is due. If I was sensible id buy a lower mileage one. I think I neeeed another TT😅 maybe a Mk 3😊
Haha that makes me feel better, I wish I could daily my car, but work car stops that. Helps keep it clean and makes it more exciting to drive at the weekends tho.
Yeah I’ve looked at the mk2 & mk3 and not sure what I’d get if I didn’t have the mk1 anymore. Tough one that
Two things i hate about the mk1 tt. First there s no armrest and second its very tiring driving in a city(if this is your daily)
A few more for the list, from experience as a long time multiple Mk1 TT owner since 2004
1. Headlight washer pumps - burning out! Then they leak and all the water drains out (no water then to wash your windscreen and dash warning light, plus an MOT failure). To fix it you have to take the wheel off, inner wheel arch liner off and pull the bottle. Why did Audi put the bottle in the wing?
2. Headlight washer aliens failing - the bellows crack or burst and leak (due to lack of use). To fix you have to take the wheels off, liners off, bumper off, all the pipes off (at least in the UK now they are no longer an MOT failure!). Some nice and easy electric squirters would have been better :)
3. Batteries that drain flat due to alarm - if you don't use the TT that often the battery drains out (the solution of course is to simulate an EV and plug yourself into the grid with a trickle charger). Would be good to have a switch to completely turn off the alarm.
4. Engine bay - more space! It's so cramped in there!
As sports cars go, the Mk1 TT is still turning heads 25+ years on. Great cars, lots of smiles per mile despite all the gremlins that appear from time to time.
Some great ones there, that’s it there is certainly more positives than negatives and given their age they are looking well considering that
Dom, definitely more positives than negatives! The iconic timeless design keeps owners interested. I hear so many stories of people who owned a TT, sold it and wished they hadn't!
What's next Dom? the follow-up video "The Top 5 Things I LIKE about my Audi TT" :)
Keep up the great work on the channel, always interesting and entertaining :) @@TheParrottBros
3rd gear miss is usually the bushings on the shifter tower .
I have no excuse I have a brand new talk shift tower and still have issues 😂😂
I’ve just done a 350 mile round trip with no issues in my 06 mk1 TT with mods
Great work, my confidence is building the more and more I read these comments 👌🏻
I trust my vr6 3.2 500 miles no problem
I agree there is something about the v6 that just screams reliability. Loved mine
Only installed the cupholder yesterday and already thinking what the! So number 1 for me
😂😂😂 it’s like you need it but it’s frustrating
Dom, trust is the biggy for me, and of course Trust is earned! Mine has been much, much better since I changed out a lot of sensors. drives really well. My number one gripe is the lack of commonality of parts on these models, yeah i get different engines will have different parts but door actuators are insane....just why do they need to be different? Headlights...they all look the same but they are not. Its a huge failure from a production line point of view, making so many different parts needlessly expensive. Take some spares, some tools and trust in the TT, think of the boost that will give everyone on here if you make it with out issue!!!
Mad isn’t it, I’ve seen more than 5 variants on some parts. Half the time Audi don’t even know which one is on the car until they take reference on the removed faulty part 😂. If nothing else making this video has made me keen to get out and drive mine more 😍
@@TheParrottBrosI'm glad its not just me hahahahaha
Trust is my number 1 thing, although it’s been pretty well-behaved since Bryn did the clutch 😁
2 would be my door issue that needs a bigger fix than the micro switch
3 I haven’t locked myself out yet, but great potential when battery flat (due to lights being left and no alarm, as door opening not recognised..see 2)
4 need a second car if I want to take more than one passenger (lucky one passenger though 😎)
5 uummmmm?? That’s it 😍
5
Yeah the locking out is quite a funny one, hear about it quite often which can be a right nightmare often because of the failed switch 😅
Like the fact your can’t even make a list of 5, you definitely own the right car 👌🏻
@@TheParrottBrosyay 😎
I have to say, having the VR6 up to Inverness from Portsmouth has certainly helped my confidence in the car. But I’m not sure id take my 1.8t for the same trip, I’d need to drive it some more to build that ‘trust’.
Do send some details re Scotland trip, I’m heading up in the summer for a good hoon down the A82 and will definitely make the trip again with a load of TT’s when the time comes!
Glad I’m not the only one who suffers with trust, I’m the same with my v6 never questioned its reliability until the fans failed. But easily replaced and back to being great again.
I’m heading to Scotland 2-6th oct this year
@@TheParrottBros Yeah, it’s an odd one - I’ve never had the 1.8t ‘Break down’ unless you count it spewing blue smoke in front of all the attendees of Simply Audi 2023 a break down - But I wouldn’t have it on a trip like that
The V6 also sounds glorious going through the Glencoe ‘Cut’ about two miles on from the resort 😋
I’ll be along 😉
I can imagine even a journey to the shops would have a glorious soundtrack 😂
@@TheParrottBros Absolutely, I’m going to have to upgrade my exhaust system before we go 😅
Number 6 M.O.T TIME 😂
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Hahaha that’s a great one
This is really gonna help the resale value! 👍🏾😂🤣💀
When I follow it up with a top 5 love we’ll be fine 😂
1 missing 6th gear (my model 8n from 1999, later model's do have a 6th gear)
2 no cruise control (in later models it was an option)
3 and yes every TT 8n has the problem with the LCD pixel console / dashboard
Currently I have an issue with my fuel gauge reading being off. I don't know if that is a typical problem with the TT 8n.
Is yours a 180 model? As I thought all 225’s had a 6 speed box,
Cruise control can be retrofitted fairly simply,
My fuel gauge has a mind of its own, it could be something as simple as the sender or the clocks
@@TheParrottBros Indeed, spot on. My model is the 8n 180 quattro without ESP and without spoiler. 6th gear and cruise control was missed in the past when I was traveling quite freqently in German on the autobahn.
I guess you are right about the fuel sensor. For next MOT (APK) I will ask my garage to check.
I'm now at 360.000 km / 224.000 miles, second owner of the car and already in my possession since 2004. Car never let me down other than the standard stuff like flat tire or empty fuel.
5th reason dislike. Initially only available in silver and black.
Keep up the good work, looking forward to your next video.
As I’ve only owner the car since last October I learned very quickly the hard way about the rain coming in the door way it’s such a pain especially I live in Scotland haha
A daily issue for you then 😂. Luckily we don’t have much snow imagine opening the door and getting a 4 inch Cloude of Snow land on your lap
@@TheParrottBros oh yes the snow up here this year has been challenging to say the least 🤣
i miss my TT now... sold it for £550 on the weekend, owned it for 7 years
Ooo no! Why so cheap ?!
Downpipe split and various other issues I didn't want to fix@@TheParrottBros
But, the person owning it is in contact with me and telling me all about it.
Fixed it all in 4 hours, as he has a garage & ramp, but it using the car as intended!
Yeah trust big one ive had mine 2 years 1500 miles been quite unreliable, several breakdowns mainly coolant leaks from various hoses
Ooo no! Usually they are not too bad for coolant hoses. What seems to be the issues?
My TT went into storage a few weeks ago due to DSG failure that I’m not in the position to shell out more than I paid for the car to fix at the moment :(
Ooo no, that’s always my worry when I had my s4 & my dsg TT, sorry to hear that! You could speak to a trusted breaker and get a known good used box to help save money
I hate that i cant get parts here in the states like bumpers door cards trim parts
ect.
I can imagine mechanical parts are not too much of an issues but things like lights and panels are harder
Yes they are i need doorcards and xeon headlight assemblys
Won’t bore you with another 5 but 100% the needle drop when going over bumps is a pain.
Had it repaired once and lasted one trip
Ooo no! That’s a pain. I need to pull my finger out and sort mine 😂
Not sure I trust mine either.
I also hate the rev hang when changing gear. It always holds the revs for a second when pushing the clutch in. Any ideas on a fix? Can it be mapped out?
That’s likely to be one of 2 things an air leak or clutch switch. They are the most common issues for that
I’ve owned a mk 1 Audi TT roadster225 for 23 years. I think they will go up in value. They are not as common as the coupes. I also have the extremely rare hard top with mine.
Wow thats very cool, 23 years of ownership is impressive, I bet you have had some great times in that car
wow that is impressive, 23 years of ownership I bet you have made some lovely trips in that car
As someone with long arms, I can say that the TT is one of the few cars that I really like the shifter location of. However, I really can't imagine that this is true for most people.
Damn my short arms 😂. Glad it suits and fits you mate 😊
1 & 2 are UK specific Dom! Don't have those problems in the left hand drive versions ;) I assume you're naturally right handed?
😂😂. I am right handed yes mate
My top 5 gripes
1. Every mk1 alarm fails.
2. The body panels will rust eventually and need replaced or fixed
3. A sadist engineered the panel under the steering wheel above the pedals 😂, it takes 20+ attempts to fit it back on correctly.
4. Aftermarket parts tend to be awful and only expensive oem/equivalent work (not strictly mk1 I know)
5. Every job you undertake will guaranteed unearth at least 2 more jobs that need doing also 😂
And a bonus one would be the PCV meltdown after 18+ years
Number 3 and 5 get me every time 😂😂😂
iv been down to southern Spain twice there and back dune 5000 miles in 3 weeks took no parts and pushed it to the Max's 160mph don't like cup holders iv got long arms and the wife has the roadster 😂
Sounds like you’ve got it well sorted! Bet it’s lovely driving through Spain 😍
Qq: Should we buy spare sensors ?
Personally unless you’re getting a good deal on a price I wouldn’t bother. They should / will be available when and if you need them.
Oh how many times I grinded 3rd gear :(
Glad I’m not the only one 😂
Mate you know where mine is worth every penny from the states
Going all in 👌🏻. Deffo helps to start with a good car
Scotland👀
Yes mate, better crack on and get a working tt
@@TheParrottBros im aiming for second weekend march🤞 we have plan -ish hopeful this weekend is productive🫣
Hey, only watched item one and two but I can tell you straight away what’s wrong sir, your arms are way to short! 😂😂❤
Glad I’m not the only on that thinks that 😂😂
Drive mine every day only let me down due to its fault ( not human errors) once since 2010 15k fully built forged unit runs constantly I see plenty of brand new Tesla's Brocken or run out of battery it's never going to change there is no mode of transport that is foolproof😂 😂😂
Yours has been built to such a good standard I would expect nothing less, every car will get the odd issue like a tyre problem, flat batter etc but that’s to be expected
Mate what happened to the intro
It’s been retired on the shorter videos 😊