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Trying to spec up an S3 Sportback. What do you all think - roofrails or no roofrails? If so, silver or black? I cannot make my mind up. My mother has an A3 Sportback 2.0 TDi SE which doesn't have them, and I've always thought it would have looked better with them. But I'm not sure about the S3...

Hi. After an Audi-free few years, I am contemplating now buying a new S3 Sportback. Has anyone tried an S3 with magnetic dampers yet? If so, do they make a worthwhile difference? The one I test-drove had normal dampers and seemed to ride well enough. I tried a Scirocco with the magnetic...

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Recently my S3 (BAM engine code) has starting to be a bit hesitant on acceleration. When cold it can be particularly recalcitrant in first. On very low throttle openings in first (eg in crawling traffic) it kangaroos rather embarrassingly. And then sometimes on full-bore acceleration (eg...

Argh! Going to have to sell my car! Really quite gutted about this given I only just bought it a couple of months ago. Have had confirmation that I am being seconded to Moscow for 2 years and have chatted to some Russian friends, it seems there is no way in which it is sensible to take the S3...

I know this should probably go in the ICE section but no-one appears to read that too frequently so will put it here instead! Not having a car with a nav+ or a double din stereo (thus making fitting nav+ far too expensive and complicated as you need to change the climate control), I'm looking...

If you were asked to consider going to work in Moscow for a couple of years, what sort of car would you get/take to use out there? I can't contemplate life without a car but think that a bright blue S3 would really be asking for trouble. I think something large, cheap, tough, powerful and...

Just bought tickets to Goodwood Festival of Speed for Sunday! Hope is as good as last year! Did anyone else here catch the Jumbo-Jet flying display they did last year?

I've been given a standard A3 1.8T as a courtesy car while my S3 is in the dealers for some work. It's one of the ritzy run-out jobs with 17" alloys and 1/2 leather and it's the first time I've driven the standard 1.8T. I must say that it is really rather nice. Much nippier than I would have...

I'm a little concerned on this point. I bought my S3 a month ago from an Audi dealer and they told me it was freshly serviced with a stamped service book to back it up. The mileage indicator was reading 9300 miles to the next service which they told me was the standard figure that it resets to...

Thought I'd post some pics of my new toy having a good spanking on the bank holiday w/end for the general delectation of all. Can you hear the tyres squeal?!

Does anyone have a picture of an S3 on the 18" BBS cross-spoke alloys that were a factory option on TTs? If you could post it up it would be much appreciated.

Jeepers. Spent the weekend in Carmarthenshire and I have honestly never seen so many roadsigns (specifically speed camera signs) and speed cameras in one place in all my life. If any of you live around there I feel for you (though not that much as was a pretty nice bit of countryside otherwise)...

Am hugely impressed with the strength of the windscreen on my S3! Went on a trackday at Bedford Autodrome on Monday and a large wood pigeon flew straight into the centre of my windscreen when I was doing 105mph down the back straight. Saw it sitting by the side of the track and just had enough...

Have experienced car-spotter nirvana in a sort of impromptu Gumball scenario. Was on the motorway from Monaco back to Milan yesterday and thus got caught in the traffic of well-heeled F1 fans going home. Was passed by every model of Ferrari and Porsche past and present going like the clappers...

My S3 has started to occasionally make quite a loud blaring noise under acceleration (particularly if I'm in a slightly high gear for the revs) which sounds almost as if the exhaust has a blow somewhere in its front sections. However this seems a bit unlikely given the age and mileage (2.5 yrs...

Is anyone else a member of a VAG salesman's dream family?? Between my immediate family (my, my mother, my father and 2 sisters) we have an S3, an Allroad 2.7T, an A3 Sportback TDi, a Golf TDi and a Polo. I reckon that's pretty good brand loyalty! There are also two Fiats (a Panda 4x4 and my...

YAY! New car! Getting it on Saturday so this week is clearly going to CRAWL by! Have chopped in the TQ for a Noggy blue S3. It's a late 52-plate 225 with 25k up. Black leather, CD multi, BOSE, phone prep and ally mirrors. Not as many toys as some of the ones I saw but definitely seemed the...

What's the general consensus of opinion of the silver leather option in the S3? My preference would definitely have been for black but I'm going to look at one tomorrow which has silver leather as the rest of the car seems spot-on. Does it look ok or is it a bit "essex tart's boudoir"? Also...

The backbox on my A3 TQ needs replacing and given the unseemly amount of money that Audi want for a new one it occurs to me that for not much more I could have a slightly juicier one that gives a sportier sound. I'm really not keen on the dangling look of the after-market systems that jut from...