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Hey guys, I bought my white 1998 RS4 on wednesday and I am just waiting for the compliance to go through so i should take delivery next thursday. The waiting is killing me.

wlecome to sau and congrats on the purchase - yeah the wait is very very hard...specially those last couple of days...but the moment you get in the car and drive out....its all worth it :D

enjoy it :P

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Hey guys, I bought my white 1998 RS4 on wednesday and I am just waiting for the compliance to go through so i should take delivery next thursday. The waiting is killing me.

Hang on to yer wallet & enjoy the ride. welcome to the exclusive wagon dept.

Cheers :P

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Hey guys, I bought my white 1998 RS4 on wednesday and I am just waiting for the compliance to go through so i should take delivery next thursday. The waiting is killing me.

Welcome to the fray........... you'll lurve it, once you get it home, (and find out what all the buttons do!!). :P

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instruction manual????

pft - sif!!

but that is kinda half the fun of owning a prestige import.

I was still discovering things like the fog lights 3 months after getting it.

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Mine has about every option so I hope it has a instruction manual

good choice, hope you enjoy the ride, so your another mature age convert , are you older than 66yo, he's the most mature stagea owner in aus & where r u .

ps if you want a manual pm me

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good choice, hope you enjoy the ride, so your another mature age convert , are you older than 66yo, he's the most mature stagea owner in aus & where r u .

ps if you want a manual pm me

For visitors reading this thread & "for the record" We are all mature in here. :) :) Actually.

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instruction manual????

pft - sif!!

but that is kinda half the fun of owning a prestige import.

I was still discovering things like the fog lights 3 months after getting it.

haha i discovered my fog lights after my battery went flat. wasn't me that left them on overnight but even so I wasn't aware they worked... or what switch turned them on/off :domokun:

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Only 1 hour to go til I pick up my RS4, the excitment is building. I havent been this excited about buying a car since I bought my torana XU1 replica.

you'll want to give her a good run wont you, jump in her & blast her down the hwy & show me.

goodluck & happytrails

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you guys must laugh whenever a noob gets on here and says what does this do, I tried not to post this but i give up. On the dash to the right side of the steering column i have two switches one is a three stage switch and the other is an on off switch, they have no symbols to recognise and I cant tell if they activate anything. the other thing I found is a cord the plugs into the cigarette lighter, the cord dissappears up into the dash, I plugged it in but cant tell if it activates anything either, any ideas.

cheers Oldie

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you guys must laugh whenever a noob gets on here and says what does this do, I tried not to post this but i give up. On the dash to the right side of the steering column i have two switches one is a three stage switch and the other is an on off switch, they have no symbols to recognise and I cant tell if they activate anything. the other thing I found is a cord the plugs into the cigarette lighter, the cord dissappears up into the dash, I plugged it in but cant tell if it activates anything either, any ideas.

cheers Oldie

I'm guessing that yours is a late (post-August) 1998 model, so it's a series 2, right? In that case, the 3-stage switch is probably for your headlight height adjustment.

Not sure about the other things, maybe post some pictures and see what the consensus is?

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