S3 to RS3 should I?
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Read this whole thread and decided to put my 2 cents in..
Marshy, ended up with a nice car there, if I was having 1 it would be in Red too... In saying that though, as much as i'd love an RS3 for what they are, it just doesn't make sense to me in an economical sense...
The £10k-£16k price difference between a S3 ans RS3 kills it for me, you are basically paying for a badge!
Imagine dropping £10k-£16k in a standard S3 over a standard RS3.. You'd end up with a far better and more capable car imo.. The only thing that can't be replicated is that 5pot sound, but if I had a sorted S3, then thats something I could live with...
Anyway, thats just my opinion! Happy motoring in the future with your new car!
Marshy, ended up with a nice car there, if I was having 1 it would be in Red too... In saying that though, as much as i'd love an RS3 for what they are, it just doesn't make sense to me in an economical sense...
The £10k-£16k price difference between a S3 ans RS3 kills it for me, you are basically paying for a badge!
Imagine dropping £10k-£16k in a standard S3 over a standard RS3.. You'd end up with a far better and more capable car imo.. The only thing that can't be replicated is that 5pot sound, but if I had a sorted S3, then thats something I could live with...
Anyway, thats just my opinion! Happy motoring in the future with your new car!
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Read this whole thread and decided to put my 2 cents in..
Marshy, ended up with a nice car there, if I was having 1 it would be in Red too... In saying that though, as much as i'd love an RS3 for what they are, it just doesn't make sense to me in an economical sense...
The £10k-£16k price difference between a S3 ans RS3 kills it for me, you are basically paying for a badge!
Imagine dropping £10k-£16k in a standard S3 over a standard RS3.. You'd end up with a far better and more capable car imo.. The only thing that can't be replicated is that 5pot sound, but if I had a sorted S3, then thats something I could live with...
Anyway, thats just my opinion! Happy motoring in the future with your new car!
This is back to what I'd said earlier.....
The TT-RS does have a lot of potential,but the only big turbo kit around(from APR),costs over £13k,and that's without labour.
That will get you to over 600bhp potentially,but is for manual cars only.
The RS3 stops at Stg2 and 460bhp,which certainly isn't to be sniffed at,but that's it.
Put that money,plus the amounts you'd have to spend on parts in any case,and the S3 would be well into the 500s as well.
It comes down to what you're happy with from the car point of view,and how much you actually need.
I just need more.....LOL
Erm, not really sure where you get your "RS3 Stops at stage 2" information from lol, you can get a bolt on TTE500 turbo for the RS3/TTRS for £1500 exchange for a solid 500+ bhp.
MRC are confident they will get close to 540 out of a friends RS3 (which is there as we speak) with the TTE500 and WMI and believe me, I'ts costing him a minor fraction of the APR kit
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Erm, not really sure where you get your "RS3 Stops at stage 2" information from lol, you can get a bolt on TTE500 turbo for the RS3/TTRS for £1500 exchange for a solid 500+ bhp.
MRC are confident they will get close to 540 out of a friends RS3 (which is there as we speak) with the TTE500 and WMI and believe me, I'ts costing him a minor fraction of the APR kit
Sorry...I was busy looking at APR's offerings.....apologies for that
The TTE turbos are producing some very good figures on everything they've been bolted to so far.
Also,I was far too focussed on big turbo kits rather than hybrids....my apologies once more.
No need to apologise buddy, was just pointing out that this was not the case.
If you're at stage 2 on your RS3 already then you're probably looking at circa £3000 to get it to over 500bhp which I actually think is really very good value myself.
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That looks fantastic, really is a piece of art.
I was going to say get the black and red rotors but that stance just looks perfect.
When's the warranty up? Will you get it mapped when its time?
I was going to say get the black and red rotors but that stance just looks perfect.
When's the warranty up? Will you get it mapped when its time?
Thanks for the comments
Warranty runs out in 20 months but I'm hoping to stay standard all the way
Warranty runs out in 20 months but I'm hoping to stay standard all the way
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Thanks for the comments
Warranty runs out in 20 months but I'm hoping to stay standard all the way
Ye right lol.... What this space lol
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Thanks for the comments
Warranty runs out in 20 months but I'm hoping to stay standard all the way
Heard that one before!
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You all have little faith in me
It's all down to will power.....and I have none when power comes calling...
Dan-Jnr
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Thanks for the comments
Warranty runs out in 20 months but I'm hoping to stay standard all the way
Absolute rubbish, going off how you modified your S3. The itch for more power will come, I'll put a bet on it,
