New cars becoming total **** best cars years range 2013- 2018
Can't really save the GPF cars though, still nasty sounding imho.Yep, that is why people like PCWMods are making a fortune modding rear boxes and doing res deletes etc
https://www.exhaustmods.co.uk/
DAZA engined ones have no GPF afaik then the engine was updated with a new code and has a GPF.There are FLs without the GPF. Also note to you 8V guys out there, if you get an S4 be prepared to mod the exhaust too, it's pretty quiet stock! Nothing a res delete couldn't sort out (as I hope to find out soon )
Yes, that's why I stated 2013 to 2018My March 2018 FL doesn't have the gpf. It think it may be one of the last without it.
We sold the wife's one last year, 2015 car in manual only 10k miles! Good car tbf.Guyz what is the diference btw S3 year 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 ? Which is best to buy ? (not including 2018 that is expensive even 2017 still is)
This is the best and only proper racing audi I ever heard best revs! Skip to 1:25:l drove a new 135iM and sounded pretty fooking good to me....especially on start up just as good my MY2018 S3...."Dont buy any of the VAG group of cars if you want a sporty sounding car" should have been the title of your thread....as they all are getting soft limiters fitted...even the new Porsche 911 turbo sounds awful on start up....The VAG V8 engined cars fair a bit better....mainly due to capacity......Nanny fooking world we live in now.....For example.... How an exhaust note can be muted from a 300 bhp 2-0 litre engine is beyond me....."Oh that tiny engine car noise is hurting my ears"and it comes as no surprise to me at all that a Flu Virus can bring the world to a standstill...and continues....... ergo
Best year and most cost effective S3 model to buy is a May 16 to September 66 plate car with say 45k-60k miles on the clock...Snap pops and crackles........just like the cereal
Mercedes are just as bad....
A flushed toilet is 70db!I read that new cars will only be allowed to amit a sound of 68db or below, they will also be restricted to rev to a max of 3500rpm when stationary.
Might as well buy a 1.0L car, be a pointless waste of money buying anything else as it won’t be any fun.
My TCR will pop and crackle, which is pretty unusual for a 2019 or later car, it does have a specific exhaust so I can only presume that is why.
l drove a new 135iM and sounded pretty fooking good to me....especially on start up just as good my MY2018 S3...."Dont buy any of the VAG group of cars if you want a sporty sounding car" should have been the title of your thread....as they all are getting soft limiters fitted...even the new Porsche 911 turbo sounds awful on start up....The VAG V8 engined cars fair a bit better....mainly due to capacity......Nanny fooking world we live in now.....For example.... How an exhaust note can be muted from a 300 bhp 2-0 litre engine is beyond me....."Oh that tiny engine car noise is hurting my ears"and it comes as no surprise to me at all that a Flu Virus can bring the world to a standstill...and continues....... ergo
Best year and most cost effective S3 model to buy is a May 16 to September 66 plate car with say 45k-60k miles on the clock...Snap pops and crackles........just like the cereal
Mercedes are just as bad....
Same like I posted a7,s7 rs7 2017 -18 best yearsNot liking the insta link, here is a pic:
That's too Formula 1 ish ...
I know these changes are all bad news to petrol heads but in the early 90s when catalytic converters were made compulsory think of the uproar back then? So, nowadays, people take them off and map out the EML. All it means now is that people will get the stationary Rev limiter Mapped out and people will buy new exhausts. We are lucky that we have quite a bit of freedom in the UK to modify our cars - some countries do not allow it at all!
Yeah, but for how long.
I was just watching a video on the new M2 CS, it has these plastic inserts on each wheel arch, these are because new rules state the wheels must be a inset a certain distance and without these the wheels would have not met this.
I know these changes are all bad news to petrol heads but in the early 90s when catalytic converters were made compulsory think of the uproar back then? So, nowadays, people take them off and map out the EML. All it means now is that people will get the stationary Rev limiter Mapped out and people will buy new exhausts. We are lucky that we have quite a bit of freedom in the UK to modify our cars - some countries do not allow it at all!
I actually bought my S3 not knowing about the GPF but since it's a few months old now it's away in for a GPF delete and decat. So it should sound decent.
There goes your entire warranty, Audi will not cover anything even if it had nothing to do with the exhaust. That is if your car is brand new,you said you had it for a few months, may be second hand.
I'm aware of that. My warranty doesn't mean that much to me.
Audi will only wash their hands of it anyway.
Their usual answer... Nothing to do with us.
What ever happened to good old fashion customer service eh!
Sell you a £40,000 car shaking your hand and kissing your butt, when you leave they forget all about you and spit in your face if you try to complain.
I actually bought my S3 not knowing about the GPF but since it's a few months old now it's away in for a GPF delete and decat. So it should sound decent.
Good luck when it goes in for it’s first MOT
Not my first decatted car so again, not a problem.