Recent content by Matt82

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    XS Power Downpipes & Manifolds

    welly, i saw a yellow s3 on ebay and thought of your bumble bee. good to see youre still pioneering this stuff.
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    2001 (y reg) a3 1.8t red oil light with 3 accompanying beeps!

    whilst the sump is down, wire brush all the burned on crap out of the sump too, ie get it back to bare metal. sadly the top end is highly likely to be heavily contaminated too so is unlikely to ever be truely quiet as for INTERMITENT, its not intermitent. if your pick up is blocked your...
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    S4 Avant Salvage Horror Story

    it wasnt that nogaro blue saloon thats been for sale for about a year was it? as for not HPIing it, thats seriously youre fault, doubly so considering how "important" it was to you even knowing it was a smashed up car to start with
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    Audi MOT passed but Free Health Check failed

    i do agree that it was a predictable outcome. so many garages are out there to scam people and in my eyes jd has proven this again. i remmeber we were both so amazed that bushes and dampers would be included in the garantee when we discussed it earlier this year so its a shame they shirked...
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    Audi MOT passed but Free Health Check failed

    the car does sound like a complete mess. when are you actually going to sort it out or are you banking on it spectacularly failing the MOT so audi have to rebuild it from the ground up?
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    Cambelt + Tensioner + Waterpump

    doesnt look like that includes a tensioner though
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    gearbox oil (will this be ok?)

    fantastic... when you gonna be racing it?
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    A3 TDI Quattro riding high

    as murran says... its teh spring that determins the height, not the damper
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    gearbox oil (will this be ok?)

    yes. theyre the same car!
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    Cambelt + Tensioner + Waterpump

    sounds about right, i charge in that region. just make sure they can prove DECENT parts are going on
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    gearbox oil (will this be ok?)

    same here. easier life. just get what vag put in there because VAG are not particularly open about the spec of fluid that goes in there
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    A3 TDI Quattro riding high

    £1 bet says broken spring
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    Email to XS Power

    as for your map, its not really stage 1 at all any more as it has been tweaked further to suit your motah. when you gonna go for one of those ko4 hybrids that bill has been posting about lately?
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    Email to XS Power

    love it. busting myths on almost a monthly basis ;)
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    Email to XS Power

    welly... what was you moaning about? looked like a standard excuse to use an angle grinder to me and thats nothing but a good thing baby! so your provision findings are that the pipe may have gained 20bhp?