I'm banking on you being the guinea pig If I hadn't an RS in mind, I'd go full hog on this. Spacers, exhaust, springs, wheels, aero...the lot. But time moves quickly and a deposit is an important thing!
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I'll be interested to see the spacers on as well.
Had toyed with getting centre box removed for a bit more noise but scared I might ruin it.
Sounds alright but I'm a little disappointed to be honest... I'm hoping that with the Milltek mine will actually sound better than that and then there's really no regret in not getting the RS model!
If the valves are usually closed at low speed does this not affect the new twin scroll turbo as it would suggest in the explanation here? Sorry if it's already been answered it is 3am haha
Looking on an S5, I can only find one behind the box on the left hand tail pipe. Cannot see anything on the right hand side.
Also, how does the clip work as i couldn't just pull it out and couldn't feel any clip thing to push to uncatch it.
Also also, are you sure that powering off when in Dynamic & sport settings does opens everything up? Sport settings is just a gearbox mapping and defaults back to D when powering off, I'm pretty sure it makes no difference to the exhaust note other than its running higher revs.
Also also also, my car already is quite loud when turning it on from "cold" is the implication that it will be louder? that the valve things are closed when starting it up even when its in dynamic?
I've read a couple of peoples posts on here saying how they did it but it seems to conflict.
what are the actual steps in doing it?
ignition on > dynamic (it always is anyway ) > Sport > ignition off?
someone said that the valves are shut on ign off though?
do i unplug whilst engine is on?
/confused
thanks
Ok, well I can't even see the right hand side one, there is a connector right above the tail pipes near the inside of the bumper but I'm assume it can't be that one. I don't seem to see any wiring going to any plugs on the right side, even looking further back a'la the picture of the whole exhaust earlier in the thread. (the other photo of the plug itself was no help given i have no clue where that actually is supposed to be!
cheers for the reply!
a nause?
how can it be the correct one, there doesn't seem to be any wire going to anything on the actual exhaust!?
Only from pictures, it appears to be on the right pipe exit from the backbox. I imagine it'll be really close to the bumper as a result.
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fairynuff.... willl have another butchers tomorrow as its hammering it down outside at the mo... don't want a soggy back
thanks
I've just done this. They're hard to get to aren't they!
Interesting the contrast in people's experience with this, was a piece of p1ss for me lol, two minutes a side with no jacking.
I did mine within a few days of collecting the car though, perhaps the connectors get mucky and therefore more difficult to remove as the mile rack up.
Getting less and less inclined to ever bother plugging them back in!
I was on the floor underneath the car I've not fired her up yet to have a listen, I will do tomorrow!Flipping tell me about it. Drivers side just didn't want to budge. You liking it? Mine is great right now. Bedding in and just sounds so much better.
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I was on the floor underneath the car I've not fired her up yet to have a listen, I will do tomorrow!
Very noticeable difference, how the car should sound tbh
It does throw an error on he dash when it starts up, a caution and a car symbol in a circle, but it goes away after 5 seconds or so
So a big thanks to you pioneers for trying this had my new s5 sportback(sorry for the wrong thread section) for 3 days and the thought of having to go back to the dealers with a fault code I wouldn't have bothered attempting without reading the useful advice on this forum. On that note do you think Audi will be that bothered with this fault code when it goes on for any work?
It was easy enough to do but did find the passenger side a bit fiddly as the pressure point for the clip is on top. Sound has been massively improved in my opinion and nice to have some noise at lower rpm although my car only has 400 miles on it at the moment so still very much bedding in.
I will post up some pics in the s5 section later.
So a big thanks to you pioneers for trying this had my new s5 sportback(sorry for the wrong thread section) for 3 days and the thought of having to go back to the dealers with a fault code I wouldn't have bothered attempting without reading the useful advice on this forum. On that note do you think Audi will be that bothered with this fault code when it goes on for any work?
It was easy enough to do but did find the passenger side a bit fiddly as the pressure point for the clip is on top. Sound has been massively improved in my opinion and nice to have some noise at lower rpm although my car only has 400 miles on it at the moment so still very much bedding in.
I will post up some pics in the s5 section later.
Haha!Great taste and all that r.a.g how many miles are you in now? Engine feels like it needs to loosen up or tbh needs a remap to unleash what it's capable of
Haha!
Just ticked past the 3k mile mark today on a 300 mile round trip, it's loosening up by the day and both performance and economy are improving, I did a launch control launch at 1000 miles and it felt brisk, did one at again at 2500 and it felt ****** rapid, today's trip showed 38mpg for the 300 miles and I wasn't hanging around! I still think it needs a few more miles, I reckon 5k will be its levelling off point, from there I'll weigh up the performance to see if a remap is on the cards, I like the idea of the ABT box as it doesn't flash the ECU and can be removed, I also like the idea of 425bhp!
Tell me more about this abt box will have to look into this. I'm only getting around 25 mpg it's hard to keep it in eco mode to much temptation
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Did you need to seal the plugs and connectors or just left them hanging as is after the disconnect?