2015 Audi S3 Smashed - xfer engine into A3?

[Njsarge]

Hi guys,

Long time lurker first time poster,
I recently economically wrote my 2015 Audi S3 off - someone smashed in to me but i'm at fault. long story short insurance have gotten out on a technicality.
My car is well smashed on the Drivers side, both front and rear door as well as the skirt were pinched.

Option 1. I believe the car is repairable as the engine, running gear, etc are all in tact (AND APR TUNED), however curtain side airbags deployed, drivers seat was pushed into centre console etc.
I cna pick up doors, skirt and airbag replacements relatively cheap (apparently S3's get wrecked often here)

Option 2. I've recently seen I can pick up a 2014 A4 'Ambition' (The 1.4L) sedan for a fairly reasonable price, and potentially do an engine and gearbox swap, seats, perhaps exhaust etc.

Can anyone foresee any issues with this/have experience with something similar to this? Does the 2.0 TFSI go into the engine bay of the 1.4? Help me please!

Thanks Audi community - A stressed out S3 tuner.

 

[Sean6211]

Sorry to hear about your situation. My take on the options:

Option 1: Repair the damage - it looks like you will find quite significant structural damage. It is not just a matter of swapping out damaged doors, skirts and airbags. The high tensile steel structure where the B pillar is would have been pushed in, as you mentioned the driver seat is now pushed into the center console. This will be a very costly repair to do properly.

Option 2: Swap into an A3 chassis - a 1.4 Ambition A3 sedan (I am assuming you made a typo about the A4) won't be able to accept the rear differential of the S3, as the boot pan area is lower on the non-AWD cars. So this route is not really viable unless to want to spend the $$, swap what you can over and have a FWD A3 with a S3 engine.

My advice is to part out your S3 on whatever you can, get some $$ back and pick up another car.

 

[Ormesome]

Sorry to hear about this. Cannot offer much info I'm afraid but i would love to know why the insurance didn't payout. I think it would help many on here if you could let us know a few details as quite a few modify their cars without declaring. Im not saying that this is what happened to you but if it was then i think some wisdom to others might help...

 

[quattrorally]

can you share how insurance have avoided paying out?


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[Khufu]

Unless you can save money by fixing the body yourself (mine was accident damaged in same area but a lot less severe and we were able to pull it out.) i would agree with breaking it up and selling. If its bad enough to have moved the seat in, your going to have to cut the floor and side out and replace the sections, its a lot of specialised work.

 

[Khufu]

can you share how insurance have avoided paying out?


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maybe undeclared mods?

 

[Audidi]

can you share how insurance have avoided paying out?


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Undeclared mods or a tune.

I heard a guy on the radio a year ago who’s insurance was voided because he had a tuning box on his BMW.
Similar situation, he was crashed into.

 

[Damo S]

gutted

 

[pburv]

Jeez! A warning to all 'modders' here. Making me think twice anyway

 

[cuke2u]

Jeez! A warning to all 'modders' here. Making me think twice anyway

Guess work, mods can be declared and should be, even winter tyres..

 

[Audidi]

Guess work, mods can be declared and should be, even winter tyres..

I don’t get people avoiding telling about a mod that may increase a premium by 50 quid, and risk voiding a policy on a 30k car.