Not sure I want them yet, I thought I'd take look out of interest.
I don't mind paying the ebay price if I want them badly enough.
What have you done to your A3 (8p) this week
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I don't mind paying the ebay price if I want them badly enough.
I were just Guna say Car parts 4 less. Most of the time it’s the same stuff as Euro car parts but even cheaper.
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£147.05 on car parts 4 less
Ones like these I sold ( pic )
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I see on CP4L and ECP they have "Aftermarket" lights, as well as Magneti Marelli. Does anyone have any knowledge/experience of these aftermarket ones?
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You could get the wheel retrimmed by royal steering wheels for about 100 quid, perforated leather or alcantra loads of options
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I wouldn’t bother. IMO they always look cheap, might aswell just buy the proper thing.
i will never sell my current whip BUT I did purchase a daytona grey q8 fully loaded and damn it a so fine!!!
Already emailed them on Sunday, no response so far.
I was planning to keep it the same, but i'm remembering how cold they get in the winter so i'll probably opt for a design with a bit of extra padding or material to make it more pleasant.
You might want to budget around £200 if you want a custom job done but that will include postage off £11 each ( if your posting) , as for a Basic that you where thinking about earlier I think it was around £145, + postage for that .
Please let us know how much it is now .
Decided to change the Aftermarket grille for a genuine RS3 courtesy off member @JayA3sline ( cheers mate ) and jazz it up a bit , eagle eyes might see the slight difference.
The aftermarket one is for sale
Went and purchased this on good advice from member @mechanic69 from eBay as car is needing it changed (
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/301517687801 ) and since it's service time I got 5 litres off this from eBay at what I thought was a steel less than £47 ( Oil - Millers Nanodrive CFS 5W40 NT+ Fully Synthetic Oil ) now only need to pay my mechanic and hope it sails through Mot
The aftermarket one is for sale
Went and purchased this on good advice from member @mechanic69 from eBay as car is needing it changed (
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/301517687801 ) and since it's service time I got 5 litres off this from eBay at what I thought was a steel less than £47 ( Oil - Millers Nanodrive CFS 5W40 NT+ Fully Synthetic Oil ) now only need to pay my mechanic and hope it sails through Mot
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If it's mine your asking about truthfully probably not but never been pulled yet
Great color for your whip. I would love to see a yellow s3 badge on the grill and yellow fogs.
Today the car was given a change of oil, oil filter, air filter and spark plugs.
We also did a blowback test after low compression on cyl 1 and the results were a very convincing pass, so all is well.
Last job of the day was to replace all the interior bulbs with LED replacements.
We also did a blowback test after low compression on cyl 1 and the results were a very convincing pass, so all is well.
Last job of the day was to replace all the interior bulbs with LED replacements.
hahahaha. no straight up I do like that color.
This weekend I changed the stock halogen headlights - dipped and full-beam - for "Xenon look" ones from Osram.
I also finally figured out how to access the front indicator lights to swap them. The "fried egg" look, which has often been mentioned on this forum from the stock bulbs, has now gone as I've put in chrome bulbs that are only orange when turned on. I had to go in through the wheel well by pulling back the liner. It was an extremely tight fit, but it seems to be the only way to do it.
I also finally figured out how to access the front indicator lights to swap them. The "fried egg" look, which has often been mentioned on this forum from the stock bulbs, has now gone as I've put in chrome bulbs that are only orange when turned on. I had to go in through the wheel well by pulling back the liner. It was an extremely tight fit, but it seems to be the only way to do it.
I have an Ibis White S Line sportback and Ive just this morning purchased some Ibis White S3 side skirts, Ibis White S3 bottom door blades and Ibis White S3 rear bumper for £350 from someone at breakers yard in Manchester. Thought that was a good price, hopefully when I get round to fitting them tomorrow they are a good colour match.
Thoughts?should I revert to the silver one??
Didn’t change the back yet..
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It's your choice mate, nobody else owns or pays for the car so only your opinion matters.
If you like it, keep it.
If you like it, keep it.
I think the silver/chrome badge looks better seeing as you have silver/chrome grille surround
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Well I’ve done nothing physically to my S3 but I have done a lot of thinking.
I am at the stage where I can do no more to the engine performance on my own. Every mod that I can do has been done and so it sits happily at stage 2+.
However, there is more that can be done but it needs quite a bit of cash and I would need assistance.
A hybrid turbo seems attractive and after a brief chat with RTech it appears that a TT480 is a better bet than a TTE 420. They don’t have to make it work so hard to get the same results. Both would need a TTRS lpfp and RS3 injectors with the AKS head modification. The torque can be kept below the critical value to keep my standard engine intact. However, in the future I could have a fully forged engine if I won the lottery and I wanted to go even further.
This brings me to the clutch. At the moment as I don’t lug it in the high gears, I am on the standard clutch but it will not last forever.
The 2 options that I would consider would be a Helix DMF organic or an RTS SMF with a dual friction plate. The RTS clutch is marketed by Awesome and apparently feels similar to stock. The Helix is heavier in its pedal pressure and we had issues on another car in 2017 with a Helix. After speaking to Alex at AKS he assures me that all problems are now fixed with the Helix kit.
As a car, it is worth spending the cash in spite of it being 12 years old next month.
All thoughts welcomed.
I am at the stage where I can do no more to the engine performance on my own. Every mod that I can do has been done and so it sits happily at stage 2+.
However, there is more that can be done but it needs quite a bit of cash and I would need assistance.
A hybrid turbo seems attractive and after a brief chat with RTech it appears that a TT480 is a better bet than a TTE 420. They don’t have to make it work so hard to get the same results. Both would need a TTRS lpfp and RS3 injectors with the AKS head modification. The torque can be kept below the critical value to keep my standard engine intact. However, in the future I could have a fully forged engine if I won the lottery and I wanted to go even further.
This brings me to the clutch. At the moment as I don’t lug it in the high gears, I am on the standard clutch but it will not last forever.
The 2 options that I would consider would be a Helix DMF organic or an RTS SMF with a dual friction plate. The RTS clutch is marketed by Awesome and apparently feels similar to stock. The Helix is heavier in its pedal pressure and we had issues on another car in 2017 with a Helix. After speaking to Alex at AKS he assures me that all problems are now fixed with the Helix kit.
As a car, it is worth spending the cash in spite of it being 12 years old next month.
All thoughts welcomed.
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Well I’ve done nothing physically to my S3 but I have done a lot of thinking.
I am at the stage where I can do no more to the engine performance on my own. Every mod that I can do has been done and so it sits happily at stage 2+.
However, there is more that can be done but it needs quite a bit of cash and I would need assistance.
A hybrid turbo seems attractive and after a brief chat with RTech it appears that a TT480 is a better bet than a TTE 420. They don’t have to make it work so hard to get the same results. Both would need a TTRS lpfp and RS3 injectors with the AKS head modification. The torque can be kept below the critical value to keep my standard engine intact. However, in the future I could have a fully forged engine if I won the lottery and I wanted to go even further.
This brings me to the clutch. At the moment as I don’t lug it in the high gears, I am on the standard clutch but it will not last forever.
The 2 options that I would consider would be a Helix DMF organic or an RTS SMF with a dual friction plate. The RTS clutch is marketed by Awesome and apparently feels similar to stock. The Helix is heavier in its pedal pressure and we had issues on another car in 2017 with a Helix. After speaking to Alex at AKS he assures me that all problems are now fixed with the Helix kit.
As a car, it is worth spending the cash in spite of it being 12 years old next month.
All thoughts welcomed.
I am at the stage where I can do no more to the engine performance on my own. Every mod that I can do has been done and so it sits happily at stage 2+.
However, there is more that can be done but it needs quite a bit of cash and I would need assistance.
A hybrid turbo seems attractive and after a brief chat with RTech it appears that a TT480 is a better bet than a TTE 420. They don’t have to make it work so hard to get the same results. Both would need a TTRS lpfp and RS3 injectors with the AKS head modification. The torque can be kept below the critical value to keep my standard engine intact. However, in the future I could have a fully forged engine if I won the lottery and I wanted to go even further.
This brings me to the clutch. At the moment as I don’t lug it in the high gears, I am on the standard clutch but it will not last forever.
The 2 options that I would consider would be a Helix DMF organic or an RTS SMF with a dual friction plate. The RTS clutch is marketed by Awesome and apparently feels similar to stock. The Helix is heavier in its pedal pressure and we had issues on another car in 2017 with a Helix. After speaking to Alex at AKS he assures me that all problems are now fixed with the Helix kit.
As a car, it is worth spending the cash in spite of it being 12 years old next month.
All thoughts welcomed.
My car is a 56 plate, so on the cusp of 13 years old.
Mechanically it seems sound and I'm calling R-tech tomorrow to get it booked in for a stage 1.
The way I see it, it's not worth going above Stage 2 on my car as the expense climbs quickly to get gains, and on a car this age it would be worth a fraction of whats spent on it either as a future sale or insurance write off.
I'd rather use the cash to part ex my S3 in for a different car as it would make more financial sense and a different car would have more potential for smaller costs.
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Good points there. For no extra tuning cost at RTech, a downpipe would take you to stage 2.
In the near future, I’ll be selling an “as new” APR downpipe with sports cat for approx half the new price. It connects straight onto the standard catback. Probably done no more than 1,000 miles. A real quality piece of kit as Paddy will testify!
This is where logic and emotion collides.
Ours is also 13 years old but I’ve spent more than 3.5k on over the last two years, which is what we bought it for. I’ve twice priced up FL A3 Sportback (around 18k will give you a high spec model with low mileage) only to not make the switch thinking spending another 10k will probably not give a dramatically better car so we’re still stuck with the old girl still!
This has probably been the first week in a long time that nothing has been done to my car, other than drive it and enjoy it.
Oh, but I did make a call to R-tech this morning
Oh, but I did make a call to R-tech this morning
Don't worry, you will find it in a day or two. It will be deeply embedded inside the flat tyre you will probably getChanged air filter and cabin filter after clearing the snow! Managed to loose one of the airbox screw...
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It turned out to be the inlet manifold flap motor spring
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