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I shall try it 'dry' it will be interesting to compare if the power wash alone removes as much as the snow foam applied to a dry car,

Interestingly I thought the Snow foam worked well about 18 months ago, but thinking about it that was with my 20 year old power washer that died and I replaced it with a better/more powerful Karcher version, I wonder if thats why I dont appear to see the same Snow foam results?
 
Power wash alone is like a sand blast if there's stone based dust or dirt on the surfaces, better to snow foam and then rinse it with unpressurized water. Power wash should be used only for the final rinsing.
 
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Mike.46 said:
I shall try it 'dry' it will be interesting to compare if the power wash alone removes as much as the snow foam applied to a dry car,

Interestingly I thought the Snow foam worked well about 18 months ago, but thinking about it that was with my 20 year old power washer that died and I replaced it with a better/more powerful Karcher version, I wonder if thats why I dont appear to see the same Snow foam results?
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Yep, always snow foam first on dry car to loosen dirt. Then rinse. Mine was filthy on Saturday and weather didn’t give me time for full routine wash. Simple snow foam and car wash presentable again.

Helps if you have a good ceramic coating on the car.
 
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Mine has arrived at the dealer.
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new car looks great and ascari a stunning colour.
have you had your 8v from new ?
You will miss the engine and exhaust note of the 8v but I appreciate at some point you want a new car.
I just wish the 8Y had the soundtrack of the 8v, it was such a huge part of the car for me
 
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new car looks great and ascari a stunning colour.
have you had your 8v from new ?
You will miss the engine and exhaust note of the 8v but I appreciate at some point you want a new car.
I just wish the 8Y had the soundtrack of the 8v, it was such a huge part of the car for me
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Aberdeen Audi seem to be discounting quite heavily at the moment, there is a daytona SB carbon was 65k now 63.5k lol

However more worrying is the same dealer is advertising S-Tronic gearbox fluid change, but not the filter as Audi don't specify it for a change, god Audi dealers are crap.....
 
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Aberdeen Audi seem to be discounting quite heavily at the moment, there is a daytona SB carbon was 65k now 63.5k lol

However more worrying is the same dealer is advertising S-Tronic gearbox fluid change, but not the filter as Audi don't specify it for a change, god Audi dealers are crap.....
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wow a whopping 2.3% off
I'm sure my 2016 RS3 was around £45k ... how have these cars risen in price by £20k ?
 
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Picked up my new Audi RS3 carbon vorsprung saloon today :icon thumright:

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Snake Pliskin said:
new car looks great and ascari a stunning colour.
have you had your 8v from new ?
You will miss the engine and exhaust note of the 8v but I appreciate at some point you want a new car.
I just wish the 8Y had the soundtrack of the 8v, it was such a huge part of the car for me
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Yes, I bought the 8v new in November 2017.
I'll be sad to see it go and I would like it to go to a good home.
Anyone know of someone looking for one?
 
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Yes, I bought the 8v new in November 2017.
I'll be sad to see it go and I would like it to go to a good home.
Anyone know of someone looking for one?
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When you sell it do not sell it for peanuts, or be swayed by what some are fetching now. There is a lot of rubbish out there these days. A one owner original car was rare when I bought mine 5 years ago, it's a unicorn now, especially to someone looking for one.
 
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all sorted with my MMI issue, love the car
mine is a green vorsprung SB, red calipers,red stitching in the seats
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Car had another issue with the ambient lighting inside, reported to Audi Germany and apparently a known issue with a software fix in q2 sometime, not good on a new car and could easily be connected to my original MMI issue, it is with regret that I have rejected the car.

the good news is that I have ordered again but added power boot and the silk grey wheels, confirmed build week on week 11.
 
Good luck with the new one, build week 11 means before q2 so might still have the same issues. What did the lights do so badly it was enough for you to reject the car? Sounds kind of harmless to me, unless the lights start some disco mayhem on their own.
 
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Ok that's bad and I understand you don't want to accept that in a car that expensive. I'd maybe just turn them off until they find a solution but on the other hand, as you can reject the car and get a new one, then you'll be driving a newer car.

Merc drivers would probably go nuts to have such a cool ambient lighting feature, looking at what kind of a source of light pollution their interiors are nowadays. I can't understand how folks can drive those things at all with so much distracting light crap.
 
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For sale with buckets. A bargain at £74,990 for an A3
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Wow that over 3k more than my new carbon vorsprung saloon cost me ‍

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Wow that over 3k more than my new carbon vorsprung saloon cost me ‍

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How are you finding the bucket seats to get in and out of?
 
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How are you finding the bucket seats to get in and out of?
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It's like going to my Mk2 Leon cupra with bucket seats, you fall in them ok and getting out you feel the bolster on your *** as you get out , but I am 6ft2in , but they are very comfy and hold you nicely in the seat

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It's like going to my Mk2 Leon cupra with bucket seats, you fall in them ok and getting out you feel the bolster on your *** as you get out , but I am 6ft2in , but they are very comfy and hold you nicely in the seat

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I guess I need to find a showroom car with buckets and try them for myself :)
 
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...Unless someone pays for it.

Still think it loses details in black.
 
From Audi's design team.......................'Lets change the dull plastic bits for carbon fibre, but lets leave the 'orrible plastic bit around the reflector just to annoy buyers'


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Test drove one today. What a great car, with the adaptive suspension I could easily use it as a daily. Not sure about the bucket seats tough, they were fine in that period of driving but can't imagine how they'd feel like over a 1000 km trip. I don't honestly understand people saying it's not loud enough. What do they want as in RS mode it was loud as Motörhead? And the 5-cyl sound definitely was right there.

Then the steering wheel. I've bashed it several times here before, well it doesn't look quite as bad in reality but I didn't truly like how the flat top felt during 90° turns. Wouldn't be a deal breaker though.

The quality felt solid. I also drove the new S6 E-Tron and the S5, I felt they compared worse to the RS3 as a whole.

The price then, can't say a lot about it since all the performance cars are ridiculously expensive here. You buy it if you can afford, period. It's expensive and is it worth almost trice the price of a regular A3, definitely easy to say no but that wouldn't be the whole truth. It's an amazing piece of a kit in its class, I don't find the pricing completely unjustified.
 
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The S5 I drove had the un-adaptive suspension and it was so stiff you just couldn't ignore it. I guess the RS3 must be the same since it has to handle the extremes of sporty driving. You must really like the sportiness of a car if you can't opt for the adaptive suspension. Seems like the UK options policy strikes again. In my country it's standard in all RS3's.
 
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I agree that the adaptive suspension is a fantastic option for the UK. I had it before in my M3 but even comfort was pretty firm. Audi seem to have got a better balance here as comfort really smooth for daily driving. Plus you can still firm it up when conditions suit. I've been impressed with the build quality of my pre-FL. The interior is too bland but it's well screwed together. Zero build or mechanical issues so far.
 
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Had adaptive on my M3 x-drive which was great. Have non adaptive in the RS3 8Y pre fl and it’s absolutely great on uk roads. Cannot fault it, rides better than the M3.
 
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In the UK anything but Comfort mode seems too hard for our crap roads, the car starts jiggling around underneath you as if it's on something illegal, don't forget even in Comfort mode it will have some suspension alterations depending on inputs from various sensor inputs like steering/brakes/Throttle/Accelerometers etc
 
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In the UK anything but Comfort mode seems too hard for our crap roads, the car starts jiggling around underneath you as if it's on something illegal, don't forget even in Comfort mode it will have some suspension alterations depending on inputs from various sensor inputs like steering/brakes/Throttle/Accelerometers etc
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I think the problem is the cars are coming with ever shorter suspension travel, then they make things worse by lower the 'performance model' with no change in setup, shortening the suspension travel even more. BMW are really bad at this too so it is not just a VAG/Audi thing.

I have a DSC controller on my Magride 8V and it quite an eye opener what the whole system can do. The problem I come across is it is working with one arm tied behind its back given the suspension travel it has to work with. Soften the travel too much, you risk hitting the bump stop hard, To soften impact at the bump stop you need to stiffen the travel. With the controller I have been able to feel both extremes but there is just not that much travel to play with.

Jack up a modern car and see how long it takes the wheel to start to lift (Even so-called SUVs). Go back 10 years it is much better, let alone the ones I have from 30 and 40 odd years ago.

Sometimes newer stuff simply isn't better.
 
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On the topic of suspension! Thinking of changing to the new FL but didn't know that you can't get adaptive sus in the Carbon Black unlike the old one with the RS Dynamic pack.
Would rather the Carbon Black just because of the darker wheels as standard and not a fan of sunroofs. What sort of firmness (for want of better word) is the standard non adaptive compared to the adaptive modes and do you think I'd miss the adaptive that I currently have? Sorry if previous points have already covered this!.
 
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On the topic of suspension! Thinking of changing to the new FL but didn't know that you can't get adaptive sus in the Carbon Black unlike the old one with the RS Dynamic pack.
Would rather the Carbon Black just because of the darker wheels as standard and not a fan of sunroofs. What sort of firmness (for want of better word) is the standard non adaptive compared to the adaptive modes and do you think I'd miss the adaptive that I currently have? Sorry if previous points have already covered this!.
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You can spec the darker wheels with the Carbon VS now as well, if that's the main thing putting you off.
 
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You can spec the darker wheels with the Carbon VS now as well, if that's the main thing putting you off.
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Yes I have just noticed that actually, that was one of the things and the sunroof and the other extras I'm not that bothered about but maybe it is worth the step up this time on the FL.
 
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You really have some weird twists in your configurator, just checked it out for curiosity. I find it funny how the Technology Pack Pro adds the sunroof but no adaptive suspension, which surely is much more tehcnology than the sunroof - which again seems to be impossible to avoid, if you want anything extra on top of the base model. Then it's also possible to select separately in the equipment section, where again no adaptive suspension. Easy to understand if this frustrates anybody.

I guess the importer notes to Audi how the sunroof is a must option in the UK because it's so popular - since you virtually can't un-have it.
 
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Yes I have just noticed that actually, that was one of the things and the sunroof and the other extras I'm not that bothered about but maybe it is worth the step up this time on the FL.
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Have a look at the special offers on Drive the Deal, they've currently got a couple of Vorsprung models available almost immediately in Saloon and Hatchback with over £9k off, certainly tempting with that discount.
 
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Okay thanks I'll have a look on there. And yes some of the options on the configurator do seem a little strange tbf. Would just be nice to be able to have whatever you want or didn't want when paying that amount on a A3 size car!
 
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Rang the dealer today to get an update on my RS3 Vorsprung as was originally told may for delivery, its in this country at the port!
Car was ordered 11th December, lot better than the 13 months we had to wait for the S3 Vorsprung we have at present!
 
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