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Hi audisporters, thought I'd post in the welcome threads as I'm back after a 7 year hiatus. Dalliance with rear wheel drive and a move to the continent in that time. Now back with VAG in a S3 8V FL Cabrio as of yesterday when I picked up my new ride, 2 1/2 years old with 26k on the clock...

My indicators seem to be having an issue, for the last six months or so. When the ignition is turned on (not always) I get a bulb out warning in the left or right (or both!) indicators. If I put the indicators on that side it clicks rapidly a few times (like a bulb is out) then flashes normally...

Read a charming little ditty today I thought I'd share with my fellow ASNers, explains everything you need to know about cars: Understeer is the front of the car hitting a wall. Oversteer is the rear of the car hitting the wall. Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall. Torque is how far you...

Curiosity got the better of me today so it was time to take Kara to get dyno'd to see what Rick's map was pushing out. At the dyno: And the results: Really happy with the results, temperature was 17 degrees. Peak hp of 350.5 and a grin inducing peak torque of 372 lb/ft (505 nm for those...

Spotted today on a Renault Clio sport, delusion or an advance on the 'My other cars a ........' theme?

Finally the long haul is over and my car is how I want it to be, after three years and several thousand pounds of course. Rather than slowly adding posts as each new part was added I figured it would be better, and simpler, to do this thread after the work was complete, along with a couple of...

Given all the petrolheads on this forum I have a bit of a random question. I'm doing a fly / drive in America in a couple of months (planned from scratch by me, much better than one of the packages) for 16 days I have an economy hire car (cost more than anything else) but on the final day I...

For those that are interested, I've come across a review for the 8V S3: Audi S3 2013 model review | evo Overall it seems to do quite well for itself, a short review but positive

At last, the Office of Fair Trading is launching a full review of fuel pricing in the UK. I think this is potentially a significant step in getting fuel in this country proceed fairly. The story is on BBC news (apologies for no link but I'm on my phone and don't know how to). If any ASN'rs...

As my summer leave myself and the girlfriend have been driving down from Germany, through Luxembourg and France to Spain where I have family. I really wanted to rant about French driving standards but just can't. On the motorways people stick to the speed limit and their lane discipline is...

Since my car has been stage 1'd I've noticed (in line with what other users have said) that the standard suspension is just not up to the job, to the extent of getting some quite serious understeer when 'pressing on' around tighter corners as the car squats back under harder acceleration. I'm...

A few days ago I had to drive from my home location to Southampton, some 220 miles or so, on a Friday afternoon. Due to this journey I now have more bugbears about UK driving standards: 1. In the motorway middle lane, need to pull into right hand lane to overtake. Indicator on, 1 car passing, 2...

Morning all, after a bit of advice from the collective knowledge on this forum please. I have noticed the last couple of months that my rear NS wheel arch paint has started to 'bubble' (only way I can describe it) and now has some rust spots coming through. I asked Audi to have a look to see if...

I recently had to pay a visit to my local Audi stealer as my bonnet catch was broken (yes, I did search on the forums here and tried the advice but unfortunately to no avail). Audi did their usual health check and highlighted the front and rear discs / pads were near the end of their useful...

Okay, for those users on computer it may not be noticed but I access this site on my mobile and have noticed on the most recent posts homepage there seems to be a massive increase in randomly pointless blogs which, while theoretically written in English, make no particular sense and hide (badly)...

For those of you that read my blog (you haven't? shame on you!) you'll know my S3 was due a mid life (5 years old) improvement programme. Been down to Markyate today for Hazzy Days to retrofit a FBMFSW, LED rear lights, cruise control, a decent iPod connection and activate the SDS. Good service...

Just been checking out the budget, another 3p on fuel duty from August. Add VAT to that (getting taxed on your tax, brilliant!) making it 3.6p per litre! So the cost of my petrol habit is sure to go up by £1.60 a tank, so chuffed! Just chuck more tax on cigarettes, I quit smoking ages ago! Rant...