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Thought I'd make this post to clear a few things up regarding RS3 8v (pre facelift) and exhaust systems.
Do NOT even think about buying the Milltek system for the pre facelift RS3 8V. If you want a sports exhaust system, get in touch and I will source you one. They are the same price.
The sports exhaust is better tenfold, I bought the Milltek system and after being severely disappointed with the welds and flow dynamics of the Milltek system, I passed it onto a friend un used who had a standard system as a favour. Straight away, it never sounded anywhere near as good as my sports exhaust system, the pops and bangs are quieter and the note is slightly deeper, but not louder. We recently took a trip down south and had to drive down in 6th gear to stop us ripping our ears out, the system is very droney and the flaps don't make much of a difference like the sports exhaust flaps do. In comparison I have zero drone on my fully decatted sports exhaust system, regardless of whether flaps are open or closed.
There is absolutely no reason to pick the Milltek over the Sports system, my own car ran 670hp with the factory sports exhaust untouched. That demands serious airflow and it is questionable whether it is restrictive at all. My friends over at Iroz motorsports found nothing to be gained on a facelift car running the sports system vs running no system at all on a car with 500hp.
Worst mistake of my life buying that system. Have had no end of issues with the ****** thing. The box has failed two times in 5 months. Baffles collapsed on the first box and then the valves seized solid on the second box.
Milltek have been absolutely disgusting to deal with ontop of that, long story short they try extremely hard to wriggle out of any warranty claim.
First time round they requested my V5, receipt, ID etc of the car and then said as the system had been fitted on a friends car (black as per the video of the failed baffles I sent them), and not my own car (grey, as per my v5 and registered to my name and receipt etc) they wouldn't be covering it under warranty as it hadn't been fitted to my own car. Why on earth does that even matter, I paid for the piece of crap so why does it matter who's car I fit it to. The first box was fitted in March and failed around June, I was pretty angry that they refused a warranty claim on a £1400 system. My friends S3 8V system had also funnily enough failed around the same time, so we took the backboxes along with us to VAG-TUNER and dumped it on their stand and had a long chat with them. Safe to say both boxes turned up in the mail a week later.
Second time round the valves seized solid on the replacement backbox and once again they refused to cover it under warranty, to be clear, this box was fitted in early August and failed late September. I've given up chasing them to replace the box. Their customer service is shocking, no wonder someone burned down their trailer a few years back.
Will never deal with this shambles of a company ever again, extremely rude and dissapointing to see them treating someone like this regarded highly of in the tuning scene. The tuning world is very very small. Good luck to all consumers submitting warranty claims.
Rant over.
Do NOT even think about buying the Milltek system for the pre facelift RS3 8V. If you want a sports exhaust system, get in touch and I will source you one. They are the same price.
The sports exhaust is better tenfold, I bought the Milltek system and after being severely disappointed with the welds and flow dynamics of the Milltek system, I passed it onto a friend un used who had a standard system as a favour. Straight away, it never sounded anywhere near as good as my sports exhaust system, the pops and bangs are quieter and the note is slightly deeper, but not louder. We recently took a trip down south and had to drive down in 6th gear to stop us ripping our ears out, the system is very droney and the flaps don't make much of a difference like the sports exhaust flaps do. In comparison I have zero drone on my fully decatted sports exhaust system, regardless of whether flaps are open or closed.
There is absolutely no reason to pick the Milltek over the Sports system, my own car ran 670hp with the factory sports exhaust untouched. That demands serious airflow and it is questionable whether it is restrictive at all. My friends over at Iroz motorsports found nothing to be gained on a facelift car running the sports system vs running no system at all on a car with 500hp.
Worst mistake of my life buying that system. Have had no end of issues with the ****** thing. The box has failed two times in 5 months. Baffles collapsed on the first box and then the valves seized solid on the second box.
Milltek have been absolutely disgusting to deal with ontop of that, long story short they try extremely hard to wriggle out of any warranty claim.
First time round they requested my V5, receipt, ID etc of the car and then said as the system had been fitted on a friends car (black as per the video of the failed baffles I sent them), and not my own car (grey, as per my v5 and registered to my name and receipt etc) they wouldn't be covering it under warranty as it hadn't been fitted to my own car. Why on earth does that even matter, I paid for the piece of crap so why does it matter who's car I fit it to. The first box was fitted in March and failed around June, I was pretty angry that they refused a warranty claim on a £1400 system. My friends S3 8V system had also funnily enough failed around the same time, so we took the backboxes along with us to VAG-TUNER and dumped it on their stand and had a long chat with them. Safe to say both boxes turned up in the mail a week later.
Second time round the valves seized solid on the replacement backbox and once again they refused to cover it under warranty, to be clear, this box was fitted in early August and failed late September. I've given up chasing them to replace the box. Their customer service is shocking, no wonder someone burned down their trailer a few years back.
Will never deal with this shambles of a company ever again, extremely rude and dissapointing to see them treating someone like this regarded highly of in the tuning scene. The tuning world is very very small. Good luck to all consumers submitting warranty claims.
Rant over.
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