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  1. jay1601

    puddle light fitting guide for pre-facelift

    Looks like photobucket has taken them which is annoying. I got rid of my A3 about 7 years ago so can’t get any photos, of you take the door card off shouldn’t be too hard it work out if just use my wire colours, if you got a multi meter it won’t take long to work out which wires you need to...
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    Standard Performance Brake Replacement Parts Experience

    I’ve used MTEC and black diamond discs for the last 5+ years on 3 different cars (drilled and grooved) with a mix of pads from cheap Mintex/ Pagid and DS2500 I’ve never had an issue within brakes feeling crap out the box, first 50-100 miles go a tad easy until full bed it, but pretty much...
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    Connector actuator BV43

    Doesn’t matter for MOT what turbo you got fitted, they don’t check for connectors and stuff. as long as meet emissions standard or a friendly tester will be all
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    Lost 40bhp somewhere...

    Have a look at the intake manifold see if that’s full of carbon build up/oil slight boost leaks turbo vains, make sure fully free and moving easily Get it remapped, my pd140 always felt sluggish, getting it mapped helped a lot
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    Non Bose - Bose Upgrade

    Took out the standard sub and used that space to run after market amp with a high to lower converter and made a sub box which sits inside the spare wheel to take no boot space up the small silver amp is the standard Bose amp, can just about see the top of the after market amp which sits in the...
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    Non Bose - Bose Upgrade

    Mine came with a full Bose from factory, personally I find very little difference between Bose and non Bose systems both bass is non existent I have kept the Bose amp powering the speakers and have added a aftermarket sub and amp to get the bass levels I require
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    Adi’s dtm

    ds2500 pads a tad dusty but work well
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    Fuse Box Locations

    No, only has one main panel end of dash Couple fuses and relays by ECU Couple fuses and relays under the dash on the drivers side nothing in the boot
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    2.0 TDI 170 Remap

    The remap will put very little to no extra load on the balance shaft but as above yeah it’s expansive to get it replaced but it’s cheaper then replacing the turbo and a engine rebuild when it fails.
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    Can you turn off egr via vcds?

    Either have it mapped out or bit of black tape on the back of the dial card light gone
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    Lights warnings

    Check the earth points on the car, make sure clean and free from corrosion
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    Rnse AUX crap sound

    I got a factory fitted RNSE headunit with iPod dock, aux, ect Over the last week or so the sound out via aux is utter crap. Have tried 2 iPod and iPhone with a few different leads makes no difference Anyone else had any issues, if so what was the fix ?
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    Audi b7 roof rails

    I got rid of mine, gives the car a much nice side profile with the bars gone
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    FMIC - Front Mount Intercooler

    I got a big Airtec cooler which came off my old 1.8T Leon but made fit, covered over 60K miles so far no issues with airflow for the aircon or rad
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    Interchangeable Parts SEAT Exeo

    All fits the same swapped a lot of bits from my B7 to my Exeo
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    Aircon pump delete?? 3.0tdi.

    I done a full aircon delete on my 2.0TDi use a bit of string to get the length of the belt you need and ring up euros my belt only cost £11
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    DPF Removal & Remap

    I took the DPF off mine and smashed the cells out with bar and hammer. from the outside looks untouched As said above get rid of the whole egr system makes turbo work a lot easier too As for smoke it’s no worse than when was standard
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    JOM coilovers

    Fit as normal. Easy enough if your pinch bolts come out easy If not I would set aside a day to do the front and rears
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    Water in Diesel scare

    No the filter doesn’t have a water sepetstor just contains a paper filter. If your worried just fit a water separator before the filter in the engine bay.
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    JOM coilovers

    I ran jom on 2 A4 avants I found over time they sagged bad on the rear to the point where even at the highest setting was far too low, in the end binned them and went for eibach proline springs sits a lot nicer 2 years on, no issues This is on the lowering springs