Matthew Swift
Registered User
I have recently got myself a couple of months ago a nice and neat Audi S3 - she's a beaut.
When I got her she didnt come with a spare tire but came with the special tire filler for if you ever got a puncture. Now I may only be 27 but the S3 is my first car, but have been driving for the past 10 years in my parents cars (you know how it goes). Now I'm a man who likes the notion of knowing I have a spare wheel, if not even just a space saver jockey wheel to at least do the job than the tyre filler stuff that I've never even used before - call me old fashioned
Now the car obviously has a spare wheel well but as you all know the subwoofer sits directly in there so there wouldnt really be room for a 19 inch full sized alloy replacement (which I was quoted £1100 for)....erm no thanks...so I'd be happy with just the space saver.
I went to my local Audi (Audi Wakefield) and passed them this part information
- SG0601011
- T 125/70 R18
- 3.5J x 18H ET25
of which I was handed this information by Audi Stoke - where I got the car from - as I asked them for the part number for a spare space saver).
Now when I went to Audi Wakefield they said that Audi dont recommend a space saver wheel for the S3 2019 8V (something to do with my chassis number - as they change the chassis number every 6 months or so I was told). He could see the part information (as put above) on the system as theoretically available to order - apparently it comes up under the previous chassis number - this was just the metal wheel itself, not the tyre, but to be sure it would fit he raised a support request with the special parts centre who are based in Leicester of which I eventually heard back that because my chassis is so new, and because they dont recommend it, they couldnt supply an appropriate part number for me.
Now I dont really get why they said that in my opinion.
Audi Stoke gave me a part number that came up on their system, it has the well in the boot for a wheel, why wouldnt they be able to sort out a space saver wheel?
Now my parents have a 2017 Audi A3 - they have 17 inch rims, and a 16 inch space saver (the irony....), so I was actually going to test to see if (just by sheer fluke) it would fit the S3 wheel rim at least, as I wouldnt have imagined they would completely have changed the wheel fittings and design between the A3/S3 2017 - 2019, but I could be completely wrong in that - havent checked yet.
Long story short is has anyone been able to get a space saver wheel for a 2019 S3 8V, and if so what was the part number and size and did you have the same ****** issues that I have had?
Thanks in advance!
Matt
When I got her she didnt come with a spare tire but came with the special tire filler for if you ever got a puncture. Now I may only be 27 but the S3 is my first car, but have been driving for the past 10 years in my parents cars (you know how it goes). Now I'm a man who likes the notion of knowing I have a spare wheel, if not even just a space saver jockey wheel to at least do the job than the tyre filler stuff that I've never even used before - call me old fashioned
Now the car obviously has a spare wheel well but as you all know the subwoofer sits directly in there so there wouldnt really be room for a 19 inch full sized alloy replacement (which I was quoted £1100 for)....erm no thanks...so I'd be happy with just the space saver.
I went to my local Audi (Audi Wakefield) and passed them this part information
- SG0601011
- T 125/70 R18
- 3.5J x 18H ET25
of which I was handed this information by Audi Stoke - where I got the car from - as I asked them for the part number for a spare space saver).
Now when I went to Audi Wakefield they said that Audi dont recommend a space saver wheel for the S3 2019 8V (something to do with my chassis number - as they change the chassis number every 6 months or so I was told). He could see the part information (as put above) on the system as theoretically available to order - apparently it comes up under the previous chassis number - this was just the metal wheel itself, not the tyre, but to be sure it would fit he raised a support request with the special parts centre who are based in Leicester of which I eventually heard back that because my chassis is so new, and because they dont recommend it, they couldnt supply an appropriate part number for me.
Now I dont really get why they said that in my opinion.
Audi Stoke gave me a part number that came up on their system, it has the well in the boot for a wheel, why wouldnt they be able to sort out a space saver wheel?
Now my parents have a 2017 Audi A3 - they have 17 inch rims, and a 16 inch space saver (the irony....), so I was actually going to test to see if (just by sheer fluke) it would fit the S3 wheel rim at least, as I wouldnt have imagined they would completely have changed the wheel fittings and design between the A3/S3 2017 - 2019, but I could be completely wrong in that - havent checked yet.
Long story short is has anyone been able to get a space saver wheel for a 2019 S3 8V, and if so what was the part number and size and did you have the same ****** issues that I have had?
Thanks in advance!
Matt