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Good chance I'll be there for once, but can only confirm on the day. Fancy a good curry!

Found it: cocrequests@vwg.co.uk to ask for a Certificate of Conformity (supply VIN, registration, name, address and email) and type.approval@vwg.co.uk to ask for Statement of Compliance and Date of Manufacture letter (same details needed) The replies I got specified not only wheel sizes but actual t...

You can also write (email) to Audi and get a full spec, did mine a while ago and they also sent a copy in the post. Can't recall the details of how though.
It's something they have to do to conform with EU and other national regulations should you move countries.

If you can look at the build sticker (usually in the handbook and spare wheel well) there will be codes that will tell you, though offhand I don't know what you need to look for. I'd have thought 18s would be factory fit though, but maybe 19s? If you've got a tyre pressure sticker (fuel flap) that m...

The infamous CTS! That would certainly make the engine run oddly or be difficult to start. I've replaced quite a few over the years and several have been dodgy even though they appeared 100% genuine. In the end I went to a VW main dealer parts department to get genuine. If you do that they sell the ...

Oddly I've just left Aviva for one of my cars as they're going up significantly and moved to Privilege which is where my S8 has been for a while. It is in fact just a "rebranding" of Direct Line but semi-separate. In the past I've also moved between D/L and Privilege so it's worth asking them for a ...

A separate set of winter wheels at a smaller size is the way I've always gone. Get the smallest (cheapest?) wheels that fit over the brakes and deeper profile tyres so that the rolling radius is the same and speedo unaffected. As for tyres I've only ever used premium brand winter tyres, it doesn't s...

Audi door blades are normally fixed on by clips with holes that slide over lugs/protrusions on the door (or is it the other way round?). There is then one screw at the end to stop it sliding. I recall one of my door bottom strips (like blades but much thinner) coming adrift on my S8. I removed the s...

Sheltering under a real Vulcan!

Are you using a genuine Rosstech cable? I've had communication errors like that in the past when using a cheap Chinese cable.

I gave that a proper clean the next day, for our annual A8/S8 meet over the weekend.

Round plug is the old version, not sure on the part number but it's different, maybe just no suffix?
Edit: I think it's 0501209763

I should be there, weather permitting, complete with summer 20" wheels. Not eating though as ever.
We have our annual A8/S8 meet over the weekend 2 days after that so I'll probably have given it a really good clean too.

Indeed, I think that there should be a HHGTTG style message along with the limp mode warning - DON'T PANIC!

Another important point that I and several others have realised is that, now we know how the F125 works and how it can fail it's nothing like as scary! Yes it's a PITA WHEN it goes wrong (and it will!) but many issues that have been interpreted as a dead gearbox just are not. And in many cases there...