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Not sure on the offset as the wheels were already fitted when I got the car. When the tyre fitter offered the wheel up to the hub without the spacer it did not appear to foul anything, he was going to try fitting them without the spacers had it not been that the bolts were too long.

No they are flat spacers

I don't think so, the wheels have been moved around the axles a couple of times without problems, they were already on the car when I brought it, I would say the spacers were no bigger than 10mm (without measuring them)

Just a quick question: why would you fit wheel spacers ? My A4 has some spacers fitted to the front wheels only and after recently suffering from alot of vibration at around 55-60mph (since I had my summer tyres fitted) I've been told by a garage that it's not the wheel balancing but it's...

Yes, they will be looking for any way to reduce their payout they offer you if not recovered. They are often quite pleasant to start with. Sorry for your loss

That securing clamp is in a stupid place as you can't get a socket down there due to the brace in the way, i guess Audi garages have extra long Allen keys to do it. Luckily I found a spade wood drill bit in my tool box that was about a foot long and the chuck end of it was hexagonal ( like an...

Thanks for the replies guys. I quite fancy a semi auto box but the expense of repairs on them if they go wrong puts me off, as you say best of both worlds. I guess I will have to test drive both manual & auto, would be good if I could get a drive in a remapped one too. Thanks Simon

Are these expensive cars to run then? I wouldn't of thought a 2.0lt turbo would have better mpg and be faster unless it's just fwd??? My B6 1.8t quattro has given me an average of 23.86mpg in 13 months of ownership and that's using super unleaded due to the remap

Did you get them from Brakes International? as I got mine from there and they were non OEM discs and mintex pads. Have your front pads got a strange bracket on the outside pad (closest to wheel), I found I had to bend them out slightly so the pad retaining spring could locate under it, as when...

I have the same problem with mine as I changed all the pads and discs recently but either the squealing is reducing with use or I'm getting used to it, I didn't fit OEM stuff. The squealing can be caused by many factors including pad material, I think the higher the metallic content the noisier...

Dazmo what sort of mpg do you get? Have you ever timed your 0-60 times or in gear acceleration times to compare your car before remap and now or even to compare say to a 4.2 S4. Yes I agree about the exhaust upgrade, tis expensive but from the miltek video on YouTube it does sound good for a...

Would you have to get the auto box remapped too though if you had the ecu remapped? A. Make the most of the extra power B. To save killing the auto box off with the extra torque, as I believe they can only take so much hp & torque before you start having problems (aka the mk1 RS6 that seems to...

Thinking of changing my 1.8t sline for a 3.0tdi next year but just wondering which engine type to go for for best tuneability as I've seen some adverts in magazines saying it can be remapped to 300+bhp but not sure if that's just the latest B8 models as I see there are like 3 different standard...

Will be interesting to see how you get on as the Samco ones are hand laid onto metal tools (moulds), this is the sticking point for them producing new sets of hoses as they have to justify the high expense of getting the tools made against how popular the hoses would be.

Not that easy I'm afraid. I was involved with getting the B5 passat (&5.5) hoses into production & it's not as simple as cutting a few bits of hose As you can see there were many different angles and a few different ones on the 5.5.

I think I will be changing to a 3lt tdi next year as they seem to be very tuneable (300ish bhp) and have reasonable mpg but that's if I go with my head and not get tempted by my heart and go for the V8 S4 as my brother in law seems to get similar mpg to me but he has 125bhp, another 4 cylinders...

Yeah I was thinking that :-) I know my DIS always says that I have 350 range in the tank when I fill up but the light normally comes on around 260-275 miles I know our mpg is shot at the moment due to the 4 short journeys a day (2.5 miles a time) my wife does as the car is just getting up to...

How the hell are you guys getting between 33-35 mpg ? The best I have seen on a long run is 30mpg, for a 25 mile round trip to work and a 90-100 mile trip to coast at weekends I was getting 25mpg but now were are getting around 19mpg but that's cause the wife uses it for work which is only 2.5...

I had 4 continental winter contact TS830P's in 235/40x18 from kwikfit, surprisingly they were the cheapest with their order and pay online service, £170.75 each including valve/balance & fitting, cheapest I could find with the so called cheap online dealers were £250ish each for the same tyre...

Have you had a look on the kwikfit website as I only got mine on saturday? £680ish all in, pretty much what I paid for my pirreli summers