What have you done to your A3 (8p) this week

So I picked up now locally these for £10 DRLs
Going to install them..
So those 4x xenon white,those are for both? Lamps? In one light?
 

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Crap cannot fit them .. they have weird plastics won't let me lock them in position to in light hole
 
Fitted billy b14s on rear and finished off the Tyrol bushes.

Can anyone measure the height of a stock s3 rear suspension road to centre of arch would be useful I forgot to check before I did it

How long to bed in before adjusting?





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Peto Pedro said:
**** cannot fit them .. they have weird plastics won't let me lock them in position to in light hole
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Remove the rubber gasket should have said, sorry, just remembered, was a nightmare! Mine were exactly the same, that little red rubber ring stops them fitting had to YouTube it to realise the problem, they go straight in without it

Again mate so sorry should have mentioned the pain I had to get them in could have saved you... At least it's here now for the next guy who tries this mod
 
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Peto Pedro said:
So I picked up now locally these for £10 DRLs
Going to install them..
So those 4x xenon white,those are for both? Lamps? In one light?
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Yes those "xenon" replacement bulbs you get 4, you need 2 h7 bulbs per headlight. These go straight in no messing like the LED, although the passenger side (UK car is difficult due to the fuse box so pop the lid to give you space, took me 15 minutes of messing before that got moved and the bulb fitted!
 
Ommghh, excellent just did it now and fited nicely thnx maan
 
Had rear doors and rear quarters tinted yesterday



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Looks good. How much was the damage? Did the the tinter take off the door card to do the job?
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Door cards stayed in place , was thinking of having rear done but worried about the orange heated rear element showing through to much. £50 was paid


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Door cards stayed in place , was thinking of having rear done but worried about the orange heated rear element showing through to much. £50 was paid


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Wow, that’s a cracking price mate!
What’s percentage tint is it? Would like something that’s close to OEM.
 
It’s 20% , how dark are oem tints ?


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im intrested on how youve wired the amp. does it power rear speakers like the stock amp? also is the stock sub 6.75 as only kicker make a sub that size right?
 
Car went in for a service and Audi noticed a broken spring on the offside rear. Their £281 quote was rapidly turned down. And after a quick £81 shopping trip on eBay and an hour out of my Sunday and I’m now £201 better off

 
Had the alloys refurbed in Satin Black. Very happy with how they look.
 

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Just got mine back from a full service and timing chain replacement and whilst checking it over my mechanic spotted both rear springs were broken! (Is this a common Audi problem?)

Fortunately he charges much less than Audi, I had all the above done for less labour cost than it would appear Audi wanted just for the springs changing... Although the parts bill was pretty eyewatering! Need the front shocks changing soon too but will have to wait until I can afford this car has cost me enough already and I only had her 2 weeks
 
Fitted the rest of the B14s and got them set up this time round, sweet







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Got a parcel shelf for £20 in mint condition.
The Sun blind was missing the little clip to keep it held down, but my old one had that fitted so a quick swap over and I know have a fully functioning mint condition parcel shelf.
To most it's a rarely seen item that isn't worth worrying about, but it bugged me and had to be sorted.
 
Just fitted the Xtrons android nav unit

accidentally ordered the quad-core android 7.1 instead of the 8 core bot as it stands I am rather pleased with it.

Needs a little bit of tweaking on the software side to get it set up how I want and need to adjust slightly with the fitment on the bottom but actually its miles beter than I expected and much easier to install that I had assumed from reading here.

The unit was literally plug and play, no messing I have non bose and rear sub amp which is supposed to be a pig to get working but straight away sound coming through the rear speakers and no static or noise.

Actually, the sound is already a considerable improvement over the standard symphony headunit and that's without and EQ adjustments or "aftermarket" apps installed for EQ or players as I'm waiting for the speaker brackets to come so I can install some uprated speakers before I mess with that
 
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Just set up my reverse camera! Cheap £10 eBay one that replaces one of the number plate lights.

Tapped straight into the power feed for the rear wiper as the xtrons already has canbus information and seen a few people had issues going from the reverse bulb. Was a bit of a pig to get the video cable run through the bootlid but got there eventually, everything else was surprisingly straightforward
 
Went white dials today, just need the mileage correct to 185k now
 
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Suggested gear guess it's somethin to tell me when to change haha can see how many keys i have paired, think the big speedo is slightly bigger than the red dials. also you only get the gear so like D 4 or if in manual M4 that's all that lights up
 
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just enabled hill hold assist using one of the guides on here.
had it on my last car and missed it on the a3, one tick box later and all is well.
 
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just enabled hill hold assist using one of the guides on here.
had it on my last car and missed it on the a3, one tick box later and all is well.
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Ooh, im guessing it only works for automatic 8ps right?
 
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