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Hi all, thought I would put my first post in the 8V section. Will shortly be taking delivery of my 14 plate 1.8TFSI S-Tronic S-Line A3 sportback. Moving over from the 8P club having owned an 07 plate 2.0tdi Sport for the last 5 years.

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Hi mate and welcome to the forums, stock up on food and drink

 

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Hi mate and welcome to the forums, stock up on food and drink

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Cheers. Been an Audi sport member for many years but obviously been on the 8P forum for that time.


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• Aug 19, 2017

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Hi all, thought I would put my first post in the 8V section. Will shortly be taking delivery of my 14 plate 1.8TFSI S-Tronic S-Line A3 sportback. Moving over from the 8P club having owned an 07 plate 2.0tdi Sport for the last 5 years.

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Welcome to the 8v section. Look forward to pics. What colour is the car?

 

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Mythos black


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Nice. Look forward to the pics.

 

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• Aug 19, 2017

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Welcome to 8V World.

 

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Welcome to 8V World.

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Cheers mate!


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• Aug 21, 2017

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Been there, done this. Welcome to 8V forums!

 

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Been there, done this. Welcome to 8V forums!

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What did you have / now have?


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• Aug 21, 2017

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What did you have / now have?


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Had a 2004 A3 8P 2.0 TDI which I kinda destroyed by remapping myself (lots of post about that and the replacement of almost the whole engine). Now I own a 2017 A3 1.6 TDI which I absolutely love. If I could change anything on it, it would be to go with S-Tronic and 2.0 TDI / 1.5 TFSI instead of 1.6 TDI, but 1.6 TDI has amazing economy so far.

As soon as your car arrives we expect pictures!

 

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• Aug 21, 2017

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to the 8V sub section!

 

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Some pictures as promised... treated to a wash, super resin polish and high gloss protector.

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Great looking car, congrats!

 

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Cheers!

Got to get a few more goes of Autosol on the exhaust tips yet but ran out of patience today!

Also having a think about hubs and edges of brake discs as they have a fair bit of rust on them. Discs, pads and calipers are in good working order but visually they are annoying me!


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Welcome to the 8v sub section, great looking car RL, brakes annoy me also. My calipers are not too bad however the disc corrosion keeps catching my eye, think I'll wait until I fit new discs and treat them prior to fitting, if I can wait that long.

 

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Yeah I am likely to do the same I suspect.


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Undertook the air vent mod last week. There’s a separate thread but thought I would add a couple of pics here.

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Swapped pedals today as well. Much better!

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Undertook the air vent mod last week. There’s a separate thread but thought I would add a couple of pics here.

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Where did you get the Quattro vents from? Are they easy to fit?


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Where did you get the Quattro vents from? Are they easy to fit?


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Made them mate following the ‘how to’ How To - Red RS3-Style Air Vents

https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?sh...-Red-RS3-Style-Air-Vents.278747/&share_type=t


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• Sep 15, 2017

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Swapped pedals today as well. Much better!

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From your photo I think you've fitted your accelerator pedal upside down. I did the same when I first fitted my covers.

EDIT - just ignore my rubbish above. They are correct - sorry.


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No worries! You can’t fit it wrong anyway due to the way it slots around the existing plastic pedal. It just simply won’t fit


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