Gloss Black Rear Diffuser - Is it Removable / Replaceable

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As Per the title really,

Mrs has decided to back the car onto the front step of the house and she has scratched it pretty badly including one of the exhaust tips.

Anyone know if the Gloss Black part is removable?

The exhaust tips look like they are welded on which is a whole other story for me to try and get a fix / replacement

Any help someone can shed on this would be greatly appreciated.
 
The diffuser should remove with ease, check underneath for any obvious fixings as I’d imagine there are some but the majority will click in to the bumper, won’t be pleasant to remove with how well these panels are assembled but will be easy for somebody who knows how.

The exhaust tip is bad news I am afraid. It is indeed welded onto the back box, so you are left with three options; leave it, replace the back box with tip (not an option), or have a pro cut the tip off and then weld it back on once it’s been re-anodised.
 
d8ean said:
As Per the title really,

Mrs has decided to back the car onto the front step of the house and she has scratched it pretty badly including one of the exhaust tips.

Anyone know if the Gloss Black part is removable?

The exhaust tips look like they are welded on which is a whole other story for me to try and get a fix / replacement

Any help someone can shed on this would be greatly appreciated.
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This may help.....

I’ll look on Elsa later see if there’s a more detailed removal description

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Before contemplating repairing the back may I suggest removing the main problem - your missus - and women drivers in general:
I suggest the following, which I believe you can pick up on Ebay:
  • Guillotine
  • Er, that's it. Works a treat.
 
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Evotion said:
Before contemplating repairing the back may I suggest removing the main problem - your missus - and women drivers in general:
I suggest the following, which I believe you can pick up on Ebay:
  • Guillotine
  • Er, that's it. Works a treat.
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Dear, dear... always give the best possible advice ;)
 
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Jonny B said:
Which bit ? The guillotine or the diagram of parts?
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Ha.
I can see the headlines now:

"Man kills wife with homemade Guillotine for damaging his beloved car. Suspect last seen zooming up the M1 at 155 MPH"
 
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We have a Guillotine in the workshop here
Can hire it out for 2 minutes ?
If not the head then it’ll do fingers / hands no bother....

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entire rear diffuser including all bits n pieces 900... but there are several parts so i reckon i can get that done for 500/600

exhaust 1300...... CRY
 
d8ean said:
entire rear diffuser including all bits n pieces 900... but there are several parts so i reckon i can get that done for 500/600

exhaust 1300...... CRY
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Yep item 20 on diagram is £433 + vat

item 22 are £102 + vat each

item 21 are £ 90 + vat each

If you are friendly with your local TPS you may get 5-10% off at Trade.
 
d8ean said:
entire rear diffuser including all bits n pieces 900... but there are several parts so i reckon i can get that done for 500/600

exhaust 1300...... CRY
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Ouch. The exhaust is a real wounder considering it's probably most ok.
 
If the exhaust tip damage is superficial I'd be tempted to take it somewhere to be refinished, could be possible with it on the car.

Failing that is your exhaust showing signs of rattling on cold start/ in comfort mode when hot and throttle blipped ? If so Audi are replacing them under Warranty........:yes:
 
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D0C said:
Ouch. The exhaust is a real wounder considering it's probably most ok.
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Its slightly bent on the right... pushed inside the car only by about half an inch....

I wonder if i could sell it on eBay, to recoup the outlay on the new one.... the exhaust doesnt rattle as such, its just sounds like an angry pig on cold startup
 
T-800 said:
If the exhaust tip damage is superficial I'd be tempted to take it somewhere to be refinished, could be possible with it on the car.

Failing that is your exhaust showing signs of rattling on cold start/ in comfort mode when hot and throttle blipped ? If so Audi are replacing them under Warranty........:yes:
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I wonder if i can get it heated and pushed back out? but its the black scratches
 

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d8ean said:
I wonder if i can get it heated and pushed back out? but its the black scratches
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Can you see which part of the exhaust has allowed the tail pipe to move back in half an inch ?

Or is it the back box itself that has twisted on the 2 pipes going into it ?

Depends on if you can pull it back out half and inch ?

Has the other tail pipe moved out by a similar distance, if you catch my drift ?
 
took it to the local MOT place this morning and they looked underneath and couldn't see any kink.... i'm presuming its the twin pipes (one oval) that have just been pushed back and up a bit... that would be the weakest point...
 

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An expensive situation especially if you can’t sort the exhaust out.
 
Evotion said:
Before contemplating repairing the back may I suggest removing the main problem - your missus - and women drivers in general:
I suggest the following, which I believe you can pick up on Ebay:
  • Guillotine
  • Er, that's it. Works a treat.
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I dare you then double dare you to show that post to your wife :dizzy:

TX.

Edit - that 2nd pic of the damaged exhaust has me :coldsweat:
 
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i'll just end up buying a new one i think - the other side is fine..... i reckon i could sell this one for about 3/400.... ?
 
any instructions to remove the rear bumper / diffuser would be great.... im hoping i can get the diffuser off without removing the whole bumper
 
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T-800 said:
I thought you were going to get Audi to give you the ‘old’ Exhaust when they put your new one on ?
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Will never happen, Audi will just remove and keep it surely?

TX.

Sent from my BBB100-2 using Tapatalk
 
AudiNutta said:
Exactly haha, I know they won’t. When Audi damaged my wheel and bought a brand new one, they wouldn’t give the old one back.
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Hmm that’s odd... I wouldn’t have thought you could have had it back... after all you’ve bought that wheel... if I’m ever in that scenario I’ll be pushing to have it back haha
 
Phil3 said:
Hmm that’s odd... I wouldn’t have thought you could have had it back... after all you’ve bought that wheel... if I’m ever in that scenario I’ll be pushing to have it back haha
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Yep, it is. They kerbed the wheel taking it into the workshop, absolute worst phonecall I’ve ever had. “Of all the cars in the car park today, yours was the one to get damaged”.. my heart sank, knowing how cars are never the same after paint. “Your wheel was damaged when driven into the workshop, but it’s alright we are going to source and replace with a new wheel”. Which was fantastic, no attempt to repair just ordered a new one which I heard cost £900. We asked for the old one back, it was quite badly damaged but would be a good spare but I was refused.

I guess with them paying for a new one, I lost ownership of that original wheel because we swapped. Best part, a mate had a gearbox ‘issue’ on his RS3 and it was mapped, invalidated warranty. He bought the new gearbox in full, Audi refused him when he asked for the old gearbox back.. insanity! He’d paid for it. We suspect it is because the gearbox could have been inspected and produced a case for Audi blaming the map.

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I’ve had one of those phone calls too mate... picked up my brand new Focus RS, I’d had the alloys powdercoated in shadow chrome before I picked it up and they looked awesome...

...it went in my local dealer a week or two later to have a TMPS valve changed due to it being faulty...

...phone call, “erm, we are sorry to say we’ve damaged your wheel,” “when putting it in the tyre machine we’ve took a chunk out of it...”

...I mean, come on! They must take tyres on and off all day long!

They had to pay for all 4 alloys redone as the colour couldn’t be matched as it was a one off mix when done haha
 
AudiNutta said:
I will buy your old exhaust for £100 :p
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I’m sure I’d have em queuing up for £100

If anything I’ll sell to recoup as much as I can for the new one

First stop exhaust specialist tomorrow just to double check
 
d8ean said:
I’m sure I’d have em queuing up for £100

If anything I’ll sell to recoup as much as I can for the new one

First stop exhaust specialist tomorrow just to double check
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Remember I was first in line ;) ;)
 
Back in my Impreza days I had a lovely WRX STi Spec C imported from Japan. Went to a hotel with the missus where they had valet parking. The next morning we were outside waiting and I saw a young chap reversing the car ... straight in to a kerb! I ran over there shouting and wailing :imp: the poor lad was very apologetic though. The hotel wanted to repair it but I insisted on a replacement which had to be imported from Japan! An expensive lesson for them.

TX.
 
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terminator x said:
Back in my Impreza days I had a lovely WRX STi Spec C imported from Japan. Went to a hotel with the missus where they had valet parking. The next morning we were outside waiting and I saw a young chap reversing the car ... straight in to a kerb! I ran over there shouting and wailing :imp: the poor lad was very apologetic though. The hotel wanted to repair it but I insisted on a replacement which had to be imported from Japan! An expensive lesson for them.

TX.
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The hotel replaced the whole car because they scuffed your bumper?!
 
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speaking to the parts guy he thinks the whole bumper has to come off in order to change the diffuser, or will make the job easier which im sure it will.
Anyone know the script for removing the rear bumper ?
Thanks
 
Got the rear bumper off
Split diffuser and bumper
Split the various exhaust surround trims and now all back together again
Old diffuser going on eBay if anyone is interested
 
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