Car #8 Mercedes A45 AMG - Name: Victoria / Vicky
Right then, following on from my S3 and we really do have the bug for speedy cars now and we are still working from home with minimal shifts required in the office meaning that a fuel bill is still not an issue.
So after making a few quid in profit from my Audi S3, i decide i need something faster and 4 doors, i was looking out for an A45 for quite a while as again, its a little bit different to the conventional S3 / Golf R / M140i / RS3 Gang, but most of the examples i could find were shall we say 'Birmingham Spec'.
A dealership kept cropping up on forums that know their stuff on A45s and specialised in them, this would turn out to be my first ever dealership purchase from Church's Performance in a village of butt fuck nowhere, i must also add this was my first ever AUTOMATIC.
The A45 i found had the 'Aero Pack' which means spoiler, canards and what not the full works shall we say, i think it set me back about £25,000 at the time and had about 40k miles on it. Modifications were few and far between on this because it had everything already if that makes sense? I had a new android unit installed for Car Play, Waze and the rest of it, couple of cosmetic bits such as the premium shifter and an alcantara steering wheel.
The car went like shit off a shovel, handled amazingly, fantastic car, okay MPG (talking mid 20s, very early 30s) attracted a bit of attention and most importantly had bucket seats
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Unfortunately, had i done my research properly before i purchased, i'd have known that the pre facelift A45s are susceptible to a gearbox failure, it just happened that i noticed the starting symptoms (gearbox crunch when entering reverse on cold starts) of this before it would happen (the repair bill would likely have been north of £7,000 from MB) and so she went into part exchange.
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