Well, it's the first car I've ever had that I genuinely thought a quick check of all the obvious things (lights, washers, tyres etc.) before driving it down, fixing whatever needed fixing (one brake light bulb and the washer fluid topping up) would be all that was needed to pass. Turned out I was wrong :-(
Doesn't need much doing, and stuff I should be able to tackle myself if I decide I can be bothered:
Front nearside and offside compliance bushes worn too excess, Offside front outer CV boot split too excess, Front brake disc's worn too excess.
(All as written on the failure sheet - obviously spelling and grammar don't come into an MOT tester's training).
Looking through the Haynes manual I'm actually very impressed with the way Audi design their cars - take the driveshafts for example - on my old Astra for example (and someone correct me if I'm remembering this wrong), to remove a driveshaft you had to loosen various balljoints (including the bottom balljoint IIRC) to remove the driveshaft as the splined bit that went into the hub was relatively long and the suspension strut needed that freedom of movement so the CV joint could get out. On the Audi there's a hub bolt instead of a hub nut, and from the pictures it looks like the splined length (going into the hub) is quite a bit shorter, making it a whole lot easier to get the outer CV joint out of the hub. Removing the driveshaft at the gearbox end is much easier than other cars I've worked on aswell - in my old Mk3 Escorts, or my Astra, it'd be a case of getting a big lever behind the end and yanking it or whacking it with a hammer - on this there's just a flange connection with a few bolts needing undoing. Nice and easy.
Compliance bushes don't look too hard to do - my only worry is that they won't drop out as easily as they do in the picture, and that there's going to be little bits remaining that'll want burning out with a blowtorch (like in an old Escort I had once, where it was easier to just take another anti-roll bar complete and put that on!) but I'll find out.
Never done a CV boot before, but on carefully reading through the appropriate section in the Haynes manual it really doesn't look all that hard to do, and I knew the brake pads were needing replacement sometime soon-ish, so the fact that the discs do as well (which may be debatable) isn't a massive shock.
Hopefully I'll get it all done in a day. Expect the usual tale of things going wrong some time later on in the week :-)
Peter