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    How quattro is 'quattro'?

    Canonical answer from a recent thread: http://www.audi-sport.net/xf/threads/quattro-settings.341579/#post-3088627
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    Facelift S3 engine fan running after ignition turned off

    That's weird, because our Golf ACT (COD) doesn't cut the engine prematurely at all. Only cuts the engine once you're properly stopped. It's a manual, if that makes any difference...
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    Facelift S3 engine fan running after ignition turned off

    Definitely. Particularly when a journey ends with urban driving; 20mph around the houses. Less so when stopping after National-speed-limit cruise. Seems to be peculiar to the S3's engine. I've never experienced it on differently-engined MQB cars... Can't comment on whether the PFL was...
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    Is mag ride really worth it?

    For £250, the cost of 4 tanks of fuel - absolutely yes. At full price - still yes in my opinion. I've got mag ride on the S3 Saloon and the VW equivalent system on the Golf. I wouldn't be without either. The only likely counter-argument is: perhaps if you've never had it, you wouldn't miss it...
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    audi ara blue compared to sepang blue

    Ara Blue was much lighter than I expected when it arrived... Similar idea to Sepang but lighter. Very strong metallic under direct sunlight. I posted mine in this thread here... ...and there was a dedicated Ara Blue thread too, here...
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    Confused HHA+parking brake

    Really well. I've got one of each. S-tronic with ACC, and a manual with ACC. Yes, it's even better with S-tronic because it'll slow to a complete stop. But still worth having in a manual if you do a lot of Motorway miles. I guess technically ACC on the manual doesn't release the throttle soon...
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    How do you "Individual" ?

    Engine/gearbox: auto Suspension: auto Steering: dynamic quattro: dynamic Engine sound: auto Adaptive cruise: comfort VAG do a good job of the Individual mode. Genuinely lets you mix-and-match. More so than BMW, an owner told me... I forget exactly how though. Only complaints: Would be great...
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    All things being equal...which engine

    Indeed, I managed to sneak a tour of the factory that's producing those new replacement Intercity trains. The diesel engine is effectively just an optional module that's dropped in under the floor in that variant, or absent in the purely electric one. Neat.
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    All things being equal...which engine

    Not sure if you stated whether it's the 2.0TDI 150 or the higher power 184? If it's the 2.0TDI 150, then there's little point having a technical or numeric debate. By every measure: power, acceleration, fuel economy... Both engines are as close to identical as to render the arguments pointless...
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    COD Motorway speeds

    Our 1.4ACT (COD) will run on 2 cylinders right down to about 1500RPM. I always speculated this is perhaps uncoincidentally around twice the idle RPM, as if to maintain running the engine within the design parameters of it's minimum speed... Maybe the designed minimum "ignitions per period of...
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    Facelift Facelift S3 vs Facelift VW Golf R (MK7.5)

    Indeed, this is why we're lucky in VAG-world of uber platform-sharing... Choice. So long as you accept the Golf R and S3 are pretty similar by most measures - certainly compared to the universe of other cars on sale - you can have that performance and "feel" in basically any body style you...
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    Facelift Facelift S3 vs Facelift VW Golf R (MK7.5)

    Just on parking sensors all-round and adaptive cruise being standard on the Golf R... As I say, I'm pretty sure they are standard on both the GTI and the R. In fact, everything from Match trim upwards. I just checked the brochure that I've got here (MY15 admittedly), and they're specifically...
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    Facelift Facelift S3 vs Facelift VW Golf R (MK7.5)

    On the price difference: as ever, it depends on your requirements. If you want certain levels of spec, then the price gap between S3 and R grows a bit. On most models of Golf, standard equipment includes front & rear parking sensors, and active cruise control. Then self-park is an amusing...
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    Engine type by Exhaust pipes

    Hmm, apologies, starting to think I'm wrong then... Might be twin-pipes regardless of COD vs non-COD. Well spotted. Good knowledge. This kind of renders the whole discussion a bit moot!
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    Engine type by Exhaust pipes

    ...the 1.4 TFSI with COD (140/150Ps) does have two pipes, but the (unrelated) 1.4 TFSI 122Ps has one pipe I think...
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    Facelift Chavs, envy and repairs

    Horrid stuff. I've been amazed by how capable (and reasonable) a local independent bodyshop has been with my vehicles over the years. The key is finding a good one on recommendation. If you share your location I'd bet there would be people on here who could recommend somebody local to you?
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    Facelift Want to see a Audi S3 8V FL Ara Blue? Come in !

    S3 Saloon in Ara Blue, Black Edition, with pano roof.
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    Start/Stop oddity

    Same engine in our manual Golf VII (1.4TSI 150PS ACT, in VW speak). Never experienced what you're finding, and I'm pretty attuned to what it's doing, so it sounds like a problem... Hope you get it resolved.
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    Does drive select stay where you set it ?

    Had you by any chance changed to the other key? The Individual settings are stored per-key so they can be different for each driver. Not had my S3 long, but I use Individual 95% of the time. Set it up "just so" when we collected the car; then some point that same day they'd magically reset...
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    Engine breaking on overun

    Occasionally guilty, albeit mostly for idle curiosity: usually when faced with an empty motorway and having little to keep the brain occupied other than black-box reverse-engineering a German engineer's implementation of CO2-dodging... (anyone else suffer the need to overthink the mundane...