What have you done today?

Bought a new steering wheel, red stitching and alcantara hand grips. Looks better in the flesh!
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linked work fine cheers for that. I might actually see if someone local can do it using my existing wheel hopefully that is cheaper. If you don't mind saying, how much did you pay?
 
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linked work fine cheers for that. I might actually see if someone local can do it using my existing wheel hopefully that is cheaper. If you don't mind saying, how much did you pay?
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if you find a local.... groups buy ;)
 
I've emptied all of the stuff out of my S3 in preparation for taking it in to px soon. :cry:

I've put my 17" Avus rims & winter tyres onto the Classifieds section of the forum. :cry:

I've started to come to terms with the impending separation. :worried:
 
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I've emptied all of the stuff out of my S3 in preparation for taking it in to px soon. :cry:

I've put my 17" Avus rims & winter tyres onto the Classifieds section of the forum. :cry:

I've started to come to terms with the impending separation. :worried:
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You are dead to me.....

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Not sure if that link worked! Item number is 262032834148
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Iv made a right balls up :sadlike: its only a pre face-lift one aint it doh!!
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Top tip..... read the description fully before buying anything :whistle2:
 
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Whoops :)

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I said something similar when i removed my airbag and realised haha. Needless to say the aero wipers and other bits didn't get fitted today lol. Nevermind.... the new extra horses will make up for it :racer:
 
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Yeah thats the one :) the seller has been really good to be fair, i can either sell this one and he will knock 40% off the price of the other.
Still in negotiation with him as id rather send it back and pay abit more towards the other as i dont think anyone will want it.
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I am sure they will want it... just don't want to pay the money for it lol...

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Finally got round to wiring the boost gauge in :)
 

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Not today but over a couple of days.... Repaired some rust on arch - its not the best job as I no sprayer, but getting a full respray later this year as there are few marks which I want removing.

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Gib said:
Not today but over a couple of days.... Repaired some rust on arch - its not the best job as I no sprayer, but getting a full respray later this year as there are few marks which I want removing.

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Looks pretty pro considering !!!

Don't you need to bake that or something?
 
Had a heater in the building, temp was around 20+ degrees. But left it there for a few hours. As said its not a pros job - up close there's a few imperfections but as stated going to get a better job done later on
 
Nice, even though I sold my 8L a while back I still keep coming back to these threads to have a nose
 
Got my car 4 wheel aligned (again) this time to my spec. Thanks to you guys for your suggestions. Then did a serious detailing on the outside.

Using two bucket method and about 7 microfibre clothes

Meguiars Ultimate Wash
Poorboys World Black Hole
Collinite No. 845 insulator wax (two coats)
Rain X

My results







 
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Not exactly today but... updated my panoramic head with stronger 'L' bracket and another rotating head to be able to do multilevel pano's

Bought a 300mm length of aluminium profile, same stuff thats used to make 3d printers... cut off a 100mm piece for the 'foot' and tapped the end of the remaining 200mm piece to M6...
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...so I could bolt the 'foot' to the upright..
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Used rivnuts to allow it to be easily attached to the arca swiss rail..
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...and put it all together...
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Calibrated the lens for no-parallax point and went out as the night was clear to take the following shot... it is made from 8 shots, two rows of 4... final image was a resolution of 9,044 x 5,221 pixels....

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Seems to work ok :)

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Plasti-dipped my chrome grille surround the other day -



Amazing stuff!

Having just completed a 799 mile road trip of Scotland this weekend I treated it to a good clean. Boy it needed it!



Performed faultlessly, consumed Shell V Power at an average of 37MPG over the whole trip (R-Tech stage 1 mapped) and was generally quite a nice place to be. The MPG surprised me to be honest.

The door blades are away getting painted. I purchased brand new ones, and didn't see much change from £450 :puke2:
 
The alarm started sounding while unlocking the car so i gave it a scan and got this code,

01134 Alarm Horn H12 49-10 No communications - Intermittent

Time for a new siren as it still had the original fitted which was 14 years old.



 
Just sold the old s3, sorry to see her go but have a 2011 a5 sline 3ltr tdi to look forward do. forums been a great help over the years, but just moving a few pages away. may have some parts to sell when i clear out the garage. thanks to all espec Tuffty and Bill.
 
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built this over the weekend since I couldn't find anything for 8L on the net
just gotta paint it now



 
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Today I was mostly thwarted by the great British weather but did manage to capture this...

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Nipped out in-between the rain to grab a few shots of a place up the road that looked rather nice whenever I drove past... sadly I missed the decent light so will have to return but grabbed a couple of shots anyway...

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There's some nice places round your neck of the woods. I use to work round Stroud, stonehouse way doing the Eco heating systems
 
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Broken left shift key on a MBP that i picked up... so replaced it along with a keyboard mod. Now it's right at home when playing with VCDS/tuning the S3.

Perfect!

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Put this up a pylon and watched videos of cars going fast on YouTube because I can't drive mine because I'm away from home :cry::cry:
 
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Replaced engine mounts with vibratechnics units, seems 10 x better than my sponges Oem ones. Also heli-coiled one of the dog bone mount m10 holes as this was damaged. Now all lovely and tight brembo brakes to fit next week if weather is good
 
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