I've decided I am going to get back into 8V S3 ownership. My A5 is a nice relaxing drive but there's several issues for me, the one that stands out is the pedal placement... for context the brake is slightly right of the steering wheel and then the accelerator is further across. This means your right leg is always at an angle and there's no space between the brake pedal and the accelerator...wear some chunky hiking boots and it becomes difficult. Also the standard cockpit lines do not line up with the bulkhead and parcel shelf thing in the mirror so my OCD is constantly triggered (because you are sat in a coupe right near the side they angled the cockpit in front of you in towards the middle instead of angling the centre console towards the driver like in an 8v) and I keep looking at that instead of the road. I did a quote and motorway value it at £23k which is right in the lower end of facelift s3 8v budget so adding some more cash should get me a nice example.
However there's hardly any full spec cars at sub 30k mileages. I want to get one sub 30k because the gearbox and haldex need servicing (and respective filters which audi don't clean when they service them!!!) and so I don't want a car that's been driven on an un-serviced gearbox and filter for 10k+ miles.
I loved my old nano grey one however I bought a colour that attracts too much attention. It was looking back quite a "chav" colour and it attracted chav drivers; fiestas and vauxhalls, sat an inch from my bumper. I'm hoping to buy a black one and hopefully won't have this experience again.
So you end up with a choice of cars that have a pano sunroof but no virtual cockpit, or virtual cockpit but no sunroof, or rarely cars with both but no auto folding mirrors. Etc.
Obviously a pano sunroof can't be retrofitted so common sense says buy one with this and no VC then get VC retrofitted. IIRC "hazzydays" quote £2k for this, parts included, would be cheaper to source myself. From what I've read fitting these to a facelift is generally ok but I also read Audi are stopping retrofitters from doing it. So what' s the status of this in 2022 please? Am I going to miss VC and TMC PRO Tech pack + whatever, having had all the bells and whistles in that regard in my previous car?
Also with regards to OPF/GPF other than the lack of bangs and pops (a good thing imo) is there any other disadvantages? Can you still tune them? Do you have to add adblue or whatever every so often? Do they clog up and need replacing and cause misfires like diesel ones?
Thanks
However there's hardly any full spec cars at sub 30k mileages. I want to get one sub 30k because the gearbox and haldex need servicing (and respective filters which audi don't clean when they service them!!!) and so I don't want a car that's been driven on an un-serviced gearbox and filter for 10k+ miles.
I loved my old nano grey one however I bought a colour that attracts too much attention. It was looking back quite a "chav" colour and it attracted chav drivers; fiestas and vauxhalls, sat an inch from my bumper. I'm hoping to buy a black one and hopefully won't have this experience again.
So you end up with a choice of cars that have a pano sunroof but no virtual cockpit, or virtual cockpit but no sunroof, or rarely cars with both but no auto folding mirrors. Etc.
Obviously a pano sunroof can't be retrofitted so common sense says buy one with this and no VC then get VC retrofitted. IIRC "hazzydays" quote £2k for this, parts included, would be cheaper to source myself. From what I've read fitting these to a facelift is generally ok but I also read Audi are stopping retrofitters from doing it. So what' s the status of this in 2022 please? Am I going to miss VC and TMC PRO Tech pack + whatever, having had all the bells and whistles in that regard in my previous car?
Also with regards to OPF/GPF other than the lack of bangs and pops (a good thing imo) is there any other disadvantages? Can you still tune them? Do you have to add adblue or whatever every so often? Do they clog up and need replacing and cause misfires like diesel ones?
Thanks
