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    S3 Specialist - Hampshire / Surrey Arear

    Look up Mill Road Garage on Yell.com - they're a specialist based in Caversham.
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    IT contractor umbrella companies

    I used JSA for several years and found them to be brilliant, and I would recommend them to anyone. Before them I used a company called K&B who were shocking. They messed up the invoicing two months in a row and left me several thousand pounds in debt and were unable/unwilling to do anything...
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    Bought an S3 on Thursday, blew it up on...Thursday

    This engine would be a straight swap for yours. Labour should be in the £1000+vat ballpark.
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    S3 - Knackered engine

    According to this thread, my engine code will be AMK.
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    S3 - Knackered engine

    Don't know the engine code and the car is in the garage so can't check (that's why I asked if anyone could tell me ;)). Symptoms were as follows: 1. Coolant warning on dash 2. Smoke from rear of car (start to pull over at this point) 3. Temp guage off scale 4. Engine management light on...
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    S3 - Knackered engine

    Had the head gasket go on my S3 on Friday. It's the second time I've had head related problems with the car (head replaced 18 months ago). The garage it was recovered to had a look and have suggested the it needs a new engine as fixing the gasket probably won't fix the engine - apparently...
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    Prepping bumper for respray

    Fair enough. Sounds like the best thing to do is to let the painter do the prep too. I'd rather pay a bit extra and get it finished right the first time.
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    S3 Suspension creaking at front

    It's likely to be the ARB bushes - common problem with the S3.
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    Prepping bumper for respray

    I recently bought a 2nd hand bumper for my S3, to replace the knackered on that's on the car at the moment. Problem is that it's silver and my car is Ming Blue. I'm going to get the bumper sprayed (obviously) but to save a little on the cost, I was planning on prepping and priming it myself...
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    ETKA part number request

    It's a 2001, facelift model. Couldn't tell you the engine code.
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    ETKA part number request

    Does anyone on here have ETKA? If so, I'm after a couple of part numbers. The parts I'm looking for I believe are wheel arch liners. They're situated in the front of the front wheel arches, and have vents in them. They only cover 1/3-1/2 of the whole arch. A screenshot from ETKA might also be...
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    How to tell if wheels are reps or original Audi?

    The OEM wheels would most likely have the 4 rings on them somewhere, as well as an Audi part number (at least the OEM TT S-Line wheels I saw had those while the reps didn't).
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    billies H&R and S3 bumper

    Try Euro Car Parts for the front bumper. Their site has it listed at a little over £200. I've seen them go on eBay for almost the same money
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    is my s3 about to die????

    Thread was read carefully. I was just offering the benefit of my recent experience to back up what had already been posted.
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    is my s3 about to die????

    I had exactly the symptoms you described - it turned out to be the lateral speed sensor causing the esp light to come on and the coolant sensor causing the problems at 3k revs.
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    How far do you guys commute

    I have one. If I can make the choice, I only ever put V-Power in my S3 so do quite well off it. I've just cashed in over 10k points for £70 in Next vouchers (Girlfriend wants to buy stuff for the house). That's about 6 months worth of points.
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    How much is my S3 worth?

    Hige mileage indeed, but that's better than I expected.
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    How much is my S3 worth?

    Thinking of selling my S3 and I was wondering how much it's worth. It's a 2001/Y so a facelift model. Has done almost 114k miles. Also has AmD stage 1 remap.
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    How far do you guys commute

    Earlier this year I was commuting to Cardiff from Reading - around 1200 miles a week. It was costing me £150-200 a week in fuel, not to mention the additional wear and tear. Fortunately I had to do it for a little over a month (in the S3). I did do 18 months of Reading to Southampton, that...
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    Anyone with aero wipers...

    Talk to them again but tell them you want the rear aero kit with the Touran blade. If they tell you again that nothing clears the spoiler tell them that they're talking b*ll*cks ;)