1984 Audi Other

Coupe

2.2L

Manual

WAUBD0856EA118176

Clear

Gasoline

After years of faithful service, it's time to pass on this great piece of Audi history to someone else. This car served me well as a backup vehicle in college when my main mode of transportation was a motorcycle and for the last year while I built up my current daily driver to a reliable state. First things first, mileage. Exact mileage is unknown as it shows on carfax, but the guy I bought it from said it had been sitting in the previous owners field for ten years before he bought it. My guess is that during the ten years it sat, the odometer gear's glue deteriorated, causing the rods that spun the odometer to not spin the gears. One of the first things I did when I got the car was open up the cluster and get the odometer to catch again, and now it works perfectly. The previous owner said he put less than 5k on it and I have probably put even less on that. Either way, this thing probably has less than 80k on it. Besides the trunk, the cosmetics on this car represent how a thirty year old car would look if you never repaired any of the dents or dings that are unavoidable throughout the life of a car. It has dents, dings, scratches, peeling clear coat, surface rust(haven't been able to find any spots that have rusted through the body panels), and some missing trim pieces. The windshield has a pretty large crack in it, so I had to register the car in Montana where my family has a lake house in order to dodge the safety inspection in Utah, hence the current Montana registration. The car was backed into in the rear by a lifted pickup truck with a trailer hitch at some point and it smashed the tail gate and its locking mechanism. I replaced the tail gate, but the locking mechanism never got replaced, so the trunk doesn't lock shut, but does stay shut while you're driving. The interior also has the typical signs of an aged car, torn up seats, cracked dash board, and scuffs and scratched hear and there, but for the most part everything is still in tact. All four speakers were replaced a few years ago along with the head unit, but I never hooked up the radio antenna, so the radio doesn't work very well. Two of the three center gauges work, oil temperature being the inoperable one. Speedometer doesn't work, I messed up the friction calibration when I was fixing the odometer, so it started to spin a lot more than it should have and eventually the needle just snapped off. I have just been using a garmin gps unit for a speedometer ever since, which I will include in the sale. Engine runs great after it warms up for about half a minute. I believe that a new cold start switch would fix this problem. There is a coolant leak at the thermostat housing that revealed itself just recently. Never got the coolant temperature above the recommended range. The oil cap leaks slightly, but I've never had to top the oil off in between oil changes, so its a minor leak. Plugs and wires are fairly new as well as the cap and rotor. Transmission shifts very smoothly, never had a problem with it. Clutch still grabs hard, lots of life left in it. Rear muffler fell off a few months ago, but those five cylinders sounded so good without it, that I decided to just leave it off. When I bought it three years ago I put new front shocks, front control arm bushings, front tie rods, all brake pads and front rotors. Tires are nearly new, as you can see from the pictures. I have a few extra parts that will come with it like another spoiler, windshield wiper motor and assembly, and a few other randoms. I was hoping to eventually restore this thing to its original beauty, but looks like thats not in the cards for me, so hopefully someone else will do it for me.Thanks for looking