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    Buying a s3 8p

    Hi Alex, Thanks for your swift reply. I do know the car has fsh but i shall check when i go to view. I didnt ask about the haldex but again i shall also check this. I know the car has a milltek exhaust and a stage 1 revo but i guess a spirited test drive will see how the car performs once...
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    Buying a s3 8p

    hi chaps, I'm going to view a S3 07 plate. The car has 99,000 miles on and has full service history, no has just had a timing belt in the last 5,000 miles. Just a brief thread to ask what I need to watch out for with these cars? I've had a S3 8l 1.8t and I'm more than knowledgable on them. The...
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    Abs sensors behind clocks. Need advice?

    Hi guys, well as some of you may know I'm breaking my s3 I've just had someone enquire about the 2 sensors behind the clocks which are in relation to the abs? Does anyone know what these sensors do and what they are worth? I don't want to be giving them away if they sell for a lot?Cheers lee
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    turbo chattering/fluttering

    Right tried a new oem dv and its still the same! If the actuator on the turbo has been setup up incorrectly could this cause the flutter?
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    turbo chattering/fluttering

    im not prepared to go out and spend money on a oem dumpvalve when I know the forge 007p one ive got is perfectly fine I don't see the point?
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    turbo chattering/fluttering

    this Dv come off my golf turbo yesterday and was working perfectly fine on that so I know it cant be the DV.
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    turbo chattering/fluttering

    right ive just had the 007p off with the engine running and the vacuum from the inlet is pulling the piston up in the valve so its not sticking, ive just changed the pipe from the inlet to the FPR too as it looked abit ropy but its still doing it :( I really don't want it to f*ck this new turbo :(
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    turbo chattering/fluttering

    Sbore? What you mean mate and its definitely not a venting woosh noise, it is flutter under light accleration and hard accleration mate
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    turbo chattering/fluttering

    yeah theres a vacuum mate..
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    turbo chattering/fluttering

    the vacuum pipe from inlet to dv is 3mm iirc only crap pipe from what I can see is the one which goes to the oil breather thing on the tip? car is running a standard map so ive got the green spring in
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    turbo chattering/fluttering

    hi guys not long ago fitted a new turbo to my S3 along with a relentless manifold, now I noticed that the dv was leaking so I change it over to my not long ago serviced 007p (along with new style piston) but the car still flutters/chatters? my vacuum pipe is also new going from bottom of inlet...
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    hey mate have you got my pm's? don't know if there sending??n

    hey mate have you got my pm's? don't know if there sending??n
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    replacement turbo k04 023 help :(

    ohh ******, yeah ive already spoke to him but the trouble is I cant take the turbo off my car until it comes to replacing it as I live in a block of flats with communial carpark and no maintenance of cars is to be carried out in the carpark lol plus having no tools. im supposed to be fitting a...
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    replacement turbo k04 023 help :(

    hey guys, Ill introduce myself first as im new to the site lol my names lee im from Milton Keynes and own a golf turbo and a newly purchased S3! I need some advice off of you fellow S3 owners! my turbo has gone on my S3 (AMK engine) and im looking for a replacement and to be quite honest im...