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JOM kits are German, with TUV approval and 2 years warranty. I'm sure a lot of these kits are rebranded from elsewhere, though. http://www.jom.de/ Their website doesn't do them any favours, mind. It looks like an advert in an early 90's issue of Fast Car...! I will add for quattro1...

I can't say what it would ride like at the lowest setting but for my needs, the highest it can go suits me fine. I had fitted what I could afford. You could always argue 'buy cheap, buy twice' but for a car that cost just over two grand to buy, I didn't want to spend more than I had to. As...

Since I bought my car (a '98 FWD 1.8T) I have been driving around on a combination of factory shocks and lowered springs fitted by a previous owner. At least, I assume they were springs because they might as well have been concrete blocks. The ride was appalling - even the tiniest bump or dip in...

Car feels much better after the service and the repairs. The end bill wasn't as horrendous as I thought it could have been but I still plan to chase up with garage/MOT station to see if I can reclaim any of the costs back. I'll keep anyone who's interested posted! I've been trying to research...

Thanks for the responses, guys. And DaveA3 - that's a great link, thanks. I'm picking the car up from the garage later today. Oil cooler swapped, coolant flushed. I'll see if I still get problems. Only bought the car at the start of June, from a place called Autolink Bristol. I did call the...

Sadly, its my lemon and I'm pretty sure I'm going to be stuck with it. Mechanic has got the car for the next couple of days. I'll ask him to check for leaks. Anyone got any clues why it isn't talking to the diagnostics?

Oh, for reference - it's a '98 1.8T with around 73k on the clock.

It's a VW/Audi specialist called CSB in Bristol. The guy certainly sounds like he knows what he is doing and being very honest with me. Apparently, he has kept all the oil in a jar to show me how much he got out the expansion bottle (?), so it might be optimistic to think its leftover from a...

Well, asked the mechanic to swap the oil cooler (he's '60% positive that's the problem') - I'll take them odds. But I'm still unsure why mechanic can't get any sort of reading from the diagnostics...

Continuing the belief that I may have bought a right lemon of a car, I booked my car in for a service today at an Audi specialists and they delivered a rather worrying list of problems with the car. Something all the more annoying after it apparently passed an MOT with no advisories just three...

If anyone can wait until the 15th July, GamesMaster magazine will be giving away 5 Xbox Slims with a bundle of games (Crackdown 2, Alan Wake, Forza 3 and Halo 3) in a competition... Apologies if this sounds like a shameless bit of self-promotion!

There was a rumour a while ago that Turn 10 Studios (the guys who made Forza) would be making the next Gotham game. The PGR license itself is owned by Microsoft rather than the developers Bizarre. And, as Bizarre Creations are now owned by Activision, they aren't actually allowed to make any...

Damian, from the look of the DPM site, it would be the Supersport or Apex kit (as in, the cheapest) within my budget. Don't really know much about either, though. I'm not really fussed about a lowered ride height. After my old MX-5 (handled wonderfully on the factory fitted Bilsteins, but a...

I do agree - a standard ride is best for my situation. In fact, I've been looking right from the start to see if I can find factory stuff without having to call Audi (I'm assuming they'll be expensive, but happy to be proved wrong). Can't find much on GSF and ECP do the bilstein stuff, which...

I doff my cap to you Matt82 - appreciate the help! OE spec will do me perfectly. If the ecp springs will work the bilsteins, then we may have a winner. Thanks for the top mount tip; I'll go lemforder. Once I get round to sorting it all, I'll let people know. I'm sure I'm not the only one who...

Thanks everyone for your suggestions. And the offers for help - damn my living in the South West! Got a feeling the credit card is going to take a bashing... Out of interest, does anybody know if the bilstein shocks sold on eurocarparts are a direct swap for OE (rather than a performance...

Some parts of the job are a dream. The pay is a nightmare though! It's getting harder and harder to convince the games publishers to let us see games earlier. They are getting increasingly sensitive about review scores - if a game gets 'a shoeing' before release then it can affect sales. As...

I just wish those ****** lowering springs weren't on in the first place. Then I probably wouldn't have to do anything... Car has to go in for a service next month (another reason why my budget is non-existent), so I'll see what the garage reports back before I start chucking hundreds of pounds...

As I've said, I'm not really looking for a performance upgrade. I'm not looking to go lower, I just want to rectify the clonky, spine-shattering handling I have at the moment. GMAX sounds good, plus relatively cheap. If I do that, plus top mounts and maybe save ARBs and droplinks for a later...

Thanks again for the help, chaps. I've got a 1.8T rather than a S3. Is there a difference between the two in as far as the suspension? Basically, if the suspension alone costs more than £500, even £300, I can't do it. Are there any budget set-ups that have worked particularly well for...