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  1. Grale1

    Wanted S3 8L Front and Rear door cards

    Anyone selling a mint set of black leather door cards with Bose speakers? Willing to post or a couple of hours drive from Redhill Surrey. thanks
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    Rocker cover studs need helicoil

    Cheers for your reply guys, I got the parts together to do the job and then thought twice about it so booked it into a local Audi Independent specialist and they are going to do the job for me using time sert, booked in for four hours but said might take a bit longer. ‍♂️‍♂️
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    Rocker cover studs need helicoil

    As title says, I bought my engine second hand all built up but the studs for the rocker cover were removed and different style bolts used, cut a very long story short now, I need to replace the gasket to stop a oil leak around cam belt area by looks of it, I would like to reinstate the studs but...
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    Pulling to the left

    Hi guys haven't posted on here in ages. I'm still having issues with the car pulling left both when coasting and when on the gas pedal, only way I can describe it is you can feel through the steering wheel that the front left kind of has a heavy feel to it and the power going to that side. I've...
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    Silver project top mounts

    Cheers guys, much appreciated that. The car needs these fitted so I can get the alignment sorted as its all over the show.
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    Silver project top mounts

    Hi guys, I've had a set of these adjustable top mounts sat in my garage in there box for a year or so. It's got to a point where my car tracking is really bad and just all over the show. I'm going to be fitting them asap but anyone who has fitted them have you left on the oem bearing that sort...
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    Sandblasting & Powdercoating Brembo's.

    I'm looking into painting mine, are the seals that house the Pistons reusable? Or do you need to renew them and the other seal under piston iirc??
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    Pulling to the left

    I'm also having an issue with mine pulling to the left, I will be replacing a lot of components over the next month because of the age of the car and hopefully it will help. I'm changing engine mounts also as well as fitting rear adjustable tie bars and adjustable top mounts along with...
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    Wellycooler FMIC Install Help(S3)

    I might be able to get some over the weekend as it means taking front bumper off again
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    Wellycooler FMIC Install Help(S3)

    inused 90 degree 76mm down to 63mm silicone bends from my intercooler outlets mate
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    19" Wheels

    I'd have too take two wheels off to see what the offset is, as it should be on the back right?? ET??
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    19" Wheels

    I have 235/35/19's 8.5j on front and 9.5j on the rears
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    badger 5 tip

    A little trick to tidy up the cut jagged end would be to tighten a jubilee clip to where you want to cut then just go round the clip if that makes sense as it will clean that end up nicely. Good shout cleaning the oil out also
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    How to: Poly Filling Engine Mounts.

    How does it feel in the car? I'm currently looking into this process as my downpipe knocks and vibrates through the whole car on left turns and its doing my nut in and was wondering if this would help some of the engine movement. Si
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    Turbo support bracket importance...

    They are a pain in the **** for sure mate and I personally think it's not how's it portrayed to be fitting is crap and moves everything massive amounts, sounds like you've had simialr issues to what I had fitting mine, Not a nice product at all
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    Turbo support bracket importance...

    Sounds exactly how mine went mate, I was told after installing mine that either add a washer under the bolt heads or trim a few mm off the bolts to make them clamp tighter between turbo and mani that's were mine was blowing
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    Turbo support bracket importance...

    My gear cables are just about sitting under the billet adaptor also, wish I went with the B5 V2 mani not impressed one bit with any of the relentless stuff at all,
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    Turbo support bracket importance...

    I've recently done this also buddy I had a ball ache changing all the turbo and mani for a v4 with engine out and in the floor and was a **** of a job getting that bolt through. Cut a long story short mine was in garage and they took turbo off without saying anything, I had to take to exhaust...
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    Engine swop questions

    Ok cheers tuffty I'll get it degassed then as I wiil need to put the pump on the other engine as it doesn't have one on