Anyone fitted an after market smaller steering wheel?
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What?
You really think the flat bottom wheel isn’t the right size…… oh hang on you mean the bus wheel ?
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Yup virtually, but the round wheel looks HUGE
And if you fit a smaller wheel you’ll have tons of errors on a newish car lol
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I think the days of fitting non-OEM steering wheels are over: not like the 1970s when everyone fitted a deep-dish metal-spoked leather-rimmed sports wheel to their Mini/Escort/Viva.
Define tons of errors?Yup virtually, but the round wheel looks HUGE
And if you fit a smaller wheel you’ll have tons of errors on a newish car lol
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I fitted flat bottom and only error i had was the sos. Which was coded out lane assist i set to remember last setting when i got my car, which was off. So no errors their.
As in a smaller aftermarket wheel, which won’t be compatible with canbus protocols.
Think about it logically, where would a ‘smaller’ wheel come from ? Certainly nothing currently made by Audi is smaller than either the bus / flat bottomed wheel.
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Yup virtually, but the round wheel looks HUGE
And if you fit a smaller wheel you’ll have tons of errors on a newish car lol
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It's not the looks it's big it feels and I don't really like the sculpted bits.
I was kind of expecting to be swapping for a G81 M3 but having driven a G80, I wasn't wowed by it... So will be keeping the RS.
I was in the same boat, I tried a M3 X-Drive and it felt soooo heavy and boat like, really didn't like the way it drives. Can't understand the "Ultimate driving machine" motto that's for sure.
Ah! I think the term 'The Ultimate driving machine' was around when BMW used to bang on and on about the power going to the rear only and the front only for steering, they seem to have shut up about that as horsepowers have creept up..........maybe they were wrong?
Yeah I think you are onto something! I tried the New M2, it's such a much better driving experience, heaps of fun but very easy to slide all around (maybe that's why it was so fun), the steering felt much more nimble and precise. If I was going to change, a M2 would be it,
I reckon these days a 2wd car would quickly get very tiring, we had a Golf GTD some years ago (I hated it with a vengence, only lasted 6 months) that would spin/tramp when trying to pull out of a junction quickly, a RWD car is (IMHO) great on a dry sunny warm day, but how many of those do we get?
Yes; regardless of pwer and torque, the singly most important acceleration stat of a 4WD drive car is 0-30 yards in the wet.
Hmmm how odd, we have a GTD and it never does that lol.
I suppose you can’t beat that rear wheel shove and the back end all out of shape as you pull out
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I REALLY did not gell with ours at all, it was a 16 plate IIRC with 19 inch Santiago's but with std suspension, even on our normal run up the A55 to N Wales (where my RS3 returns 40mpg ish, my 7R returned 38 mpg ish) the GTD would only return around 40mpg, I was thinking whats the point of a Diesel with that kind of economy?Hmmm how odd, we have a GTD and it never does that lol.
I suppose you can’t beat that rear wheel shove and the back end all out of shape as you pull out
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I was on a downer with the car from the off after they kerbed two of the wheels between my purchase (ex demo car) and pickup and had the 'man in a van' repair them only for the low pressure tyre warning to go off within 5 miles of the dealership which had me return to find out that the repair man, or the dealer had not reset the tyre warning after the repair's I should have 'refused' the car there and then tbh
I found out that a std car with 19's has 36/36psi tyre pressures, but and the only car I could find with DCC and 19's was a GTI, the tyre pressure sticker said (this is from memory) 42/38psi
So I set the tyres to 42/38psi and did our N Wales trip and hey presto mid 50's mpg, happy days, but the ride quality
In the end I ordered a Golf 7.5R, loved it
