I finally have something to update this with. Firstly, my car had rust at the top of the arches, and sills, my local VW garage agreed to repair this under warranty with them paying 70% of the bill. It turned out the wings were beyond repair, so were replaced with new panels, even better! My 30% of the bill though came to £400, and tbh I'm fairy unimpressed with the work they've done. The panels themselves are spot on, however the rest is shocking. They've not put the bolt back in to hold the arch liner, they've not masked off under the car, so I now have red over spray everywhere! Most annoyingly though, they've also covered one of my recently refurbished Monza wheels in overspray, not impressed. Luckily it has mostly polished off, but still. Not what I expected from such a big name bodyshop.
heres a before pic, for anyone interested
I jack my car up quite regularly for various reasons, and quickly grew tired of the jack in the boot. However the lack of jacking points made using a trolley jack difficult. After some research, I discovered that the Audi S3 came with jacking points that can be retrofitted to the mk5 chassis. These were ordered up asap. My experience with the local Audi dealer was even less impressive than with VW. The wrong part turned up twice, then when the right part arrived, nobody thought to call me and let me know... cheers. They were a piece of cake to fit though, and are very useful.
With all that behind me, the more exciting stuff could happen. Firstly I had a set of KW V1's fitted about a month ago. I gave them time to settle properly, before going mad this weekend sorting everything else out. I finally got round to buying and fitting some tyres for the BBS VZ I've had for several months. I was going to get a set of Falken FK-452 having had good experiences of them in the past, however they were unavailable in my size, so ended up with Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric 2's, this will hopefully please the tyre snobs? They've only done 50 odd miles, so I'm not going to comment on them just yet.
While I had the car jacked up to lower it and fit the new wheels I also took the chance to repaint the now pink calipers. Took most of the day to remove all the grease on them from previous owners, but was worth it in the end.
Also fitted some open foglight grilles, not sure why, just felt like it
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Finally I had an impulse purchase at payday... An Neuspeed induction kit. It looks the part, and is fairly loud haha. Question though. When I accelerate it makes a VERY loud whoosing noise, not just when I let of to change gear. I expected the turbo noises to be a bit louder, but it drowns out the stereo, is that normal?
With all the new stuff fitted, I went for a drive to make sure everything was fine, this resulted in a lot of murdering.... of flies
I found that despite not being super low, something (presumably the edge of the arch) was rubbing over bumps/sharper corners. So I had to raise it a few turns, dont want to ruin the new arches. The passenger side still does it a little, which is annoying, as ideally from a looks point of view it needs to be an inch lower. Is there any camber adjustment as standard? If not, what camber plates are advisable?
Anyway, after a wash, and the finished pictures. Cheers
