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    2002 S3 - rear suspension camber and toe settings

    Tuffty - hi. My car is completely original spec - I know because I bought it 'spanking new', I've done all the miles 184000 of em. had various bills but only for wear and tear and running gear replacements. Did do some new dampers 2yrs ago - Koni FSD's all round. About 9months ago rear tyres...
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    2002 S3 - rear suspension camber and toe settings

    Hi guys, No it is completely std set up as per original factory - or hopefully it will be when it has been re-bushed !! so all I was after were any original factory setting data for comparison to where it is currently both sides are about 3 deg camber and about 0.75 toe - -- you can see...
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    2002 S3 - rear suspension camber and toe settings

    Hi , does anybody happen to know waht the original factory settings were for rear camber and toe. My S3 is now chewing rear tyres , had the camber and toe checked out - both look quite bad. But I nothign to compare the values against any help greatly appreciated. thanks HatchS3 PS am...
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    air escape ?

    NO they shouldn't. From experience check the air inlet pipe - which is past the MAF unit. There is a crankcase breather return pipe which comes into this main moulded pipe from the side, check that there are no splits in the region of this join. At this point the air is unmetered - so the...
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    Oil Consumption for 2002 S3

    Thanks for the responses I have thought about using a slightly less viscous grade - does anybody have any suggestions? :uhm:
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    Oil Consumption for 2002 S3

    Mine is an unmodified S3(owned from new) which has been run using AVS with Castrol oil, to match spec VW 503.001 (0W-30). Consumption used to be 1 liter/ 1200 miles then this dropped to 1000 is miles last year and is now about 700 miles. What has happened to my engine ?? the fuel consumption...