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End of the line

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I was tempting fate in the January 2024 issue of CM when I said on page 88 that I couldn’t think of a reason to sell my 2005 Audi A3. A few weeks later and I was cashing in the tax and looking for a replacement.

For a car that had 182k on the clock and 18 years under its belt, the A3 was doing well up to this point. I’d kept on top of servicing, and whilst there was usually a job that always needed doing, the vehicle never let me down, well almost never. Christmas 2022 was nearly abandoned when a rattle I couldn’t fix finally identified itself. It was a typical

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