Half of this update is going to be in a completely random order. But as its been so long I thought I'd get it updates anyway.
So after many many miles, and some track action my wheels were in a pretty bad state. So I purchased some Poor Boys Wheel Sealant and Wolfs Chemical de-ironizer to tackle my wheels.
You can see they were in a pretty bad way and look like they’d never been cleaned before.
I washed the wheels over first with some hot soapy water and fairy liquid to try and get rid of any loose dirt and grease that was on the wheels. This moved a small amount, but really didn’t do a great deal (not that I expected it to). This is where I used the Wolfs Chemical product (unfortunately no during). The product was overall brilliant and bought them up looking very good indeed.
Sadly I had no Tar remover so as you can see there was a large amount of residue from where previous wheel weights had been. This took much longer to remove.
After a lot of elbow grease, I eventually used
dodo juice lime prime to polish the wheels and get rid of any small imperfections. I then moved on to Poorboys product where I used three coats on each wheel leaving the finish looking like this.
Recently purchased a set of team Heko wind deflectors. Bought solely for practicality and not looks. I’m fed up of wanting the windows open but having rain constantly dribble in from the roof.
I ordered some OEM carpeted Audi mats, as I was previously using great big rubber mats which I wasn't a fan of at all. Again apologies for all the pictures as they are taken on a Phone.
I'm very happy with them and are far nicer than the old heavy duty rubber ones
Next up was a quick clean as the car was smothered in Road Salt. Process was the usual 2BM and Zymol Natural Shampoo (smells incredible) and to add some protection I used
Dodo Juice Supernatural Acrylic Spritz which left her looking like this....
My next update was a brand new Revo CAI. Purchased this as I am eventually planning on going to stage 2+ or purchasing an RS3 I really cannot make my mind up, opinions welcome.
Purchased through a company called LVS racing that were brilliant and also very knowledgeable guys too.
Fitting the item in all honesty was a fairly easy process, just somewhat fiddly trying to remove certain clips from around the turbo.
Only a few pictures of the fitting as I was too excited to get it all fitted, sorry!
If you’re doing this just make sure you cover the above as you’re going to have some major issues if anything falls in!
First Pipe all on (the fiddliest!)
And one with it nearly all finished, just the Diverter piping to go back and the MAF sensor.
And all connected
Once it was all fitted I started the car and left it run for a while to make sure it didn’t cut out or anything. All was good so went out for a little test run. All I can say is WOW.
It’s like having darth vader in your engine bay. Whilst plodding around you get a small distant and fairly subtle noise from the turbo which is nice for day to day use. However when you plant the throttle it’s truly epic it makes all sorts of weird and wonderful noises. As for performance gains it’s hard to tell with the car already being mapped, but it does seem to pull slightly better higher up the rev range. In all honesty the engine in the S3 is far from characterful to start with, but this really has made it sound truly epic.
So that’s all for now folks, it’s been giving a wash, clayed and sealed with
dodo juice supernatural Acrylic Spritz. I purchased a car cover for now until I move in to my new house and finally get my own garage!
So here is one picture of her all tucked away.
This now brings me to the present day. All of last year I was continuing to save for my new home. For that reason I took the car off the road and drove around in a Ford KA for the year which, was actually quite a fun little car. However, it killed me not being able to use the Audi but needs must.
The car finally came back on the road last Friday and I’ve at last moved in to my new home so I’m a very happy man.
I used the KA for a short period until I’d moved everything in etc you can see the little beasty in a few of the pictures.
Since I’ve moved in I’ve started to tidy the garage ready for a few little jobs I’d like to get done. Firstly was to sweep the whole garage out, as it was completely thick with dust as you can see.Before moving in I also contemplated getting a back door fitted to the rear of the garage for ease of access but decided against which I’m glad I did in all honesty, more so for security purposes.
Now the garage was clear I purchased a dust proofer which you just brush/paint roller on to the floor. I’d read good reviews about it so thought I’d give it a go.
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After:
Literally done this today so I’m waiting for it to dry before I do a second coat but I will give a little review of it when I’m all done if anyone’s interested.
Here are a few pics of a few detailing goodies I need to get another shelf or two to have room for everything!
I’ve also ordered a sample set of floor tiles from a company called Mototile. I’m hoping to choose my design and colours soon and get them ordered.
The final addition to the garage was to add some outside lights for security and also to help the other half reverse up the drive…
My father being a joker as per!
And some pictures of them at night
Think they make a great addition to the garage for such a small cost.
Since I don’t have an outside tap fitted just yet, I took the car back to my parents to give it a nice clean and took it for a well-deserved blast over the Brecon Beacons. Since it’s been off the road It’d been under cover the whole time and was sealed with
Dodo Juice Supernatural so it really wasn’t that bad before I’d even cleaned it. I just gave it a quick clean and re-protected it but this time using
Dodo Juice Blue Velvet Hard wax. I was over the moon with the results. (I only took a few pictures, as I wanted to get out and drive it!).
And a few pictures from the drive itself
And finally back home
I think that brings me up to date on where I’m at currently with the car. Apologies it’s been a bit of a lengthy post but tried to add what I can remember that’s happened at least.
One last picture from a quick drive this evening. Had no idea where I was going but ended up at the top of a mountain with some beautiful views. Hope you've all enjoyed reading
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