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R8 coilpacks - yes or no?
« on: July 02, 2014, 03:45:38 pm »
Hearing from the people who have them - would you get them again with hindsight or stick oem?
 
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Re: R8 coilpacks - yes or no?
« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2014, 03:49:31 pm »
Go Red, they look better !  :grin:
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Re: R8 coilpacks - yes or no?
« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2014, 04:09:27 pm »
Hearing from the people who have them - would you get them again with hindsight or stick oem?
 
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Yes.. because they are cheaper when you buy 4 of them that 4 OEM ones. (i think)

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Re: R8 coilpacks - yes or no?
« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2014, 04:28:06 pm »
Where to get them lads? I see awesome sell red top coils, but are they the same as the R8? I've seen on USP website they have a specfic 4.2 version, any ideas?

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Re: R8 coilpacks - yes or no?
« Reply #4 on: July 02, 2014, 04:43:49 pm »
I'm interested to, the ones on awesome say they are genuine coils but when you click on it it has a ECS tuning logo on it

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Re: R8 coilpacks - yes or no?
« Reply #5 on: July 02, 2014, 04:50:30 pm »
If there is enough interest I can see about doing a GB on these?

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Re: R8 coilpacks - yes or no?
« Reply #6 on: July 02, 2014, 05:01:25 pm »
If there is enough interest I can see about doing a GB on these?


yeah go on Rich  :happy2:
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Re: R8 coilpacks - yes or no?
« Reply #7 on: July 02, 2014, 05:02:38 pm »
If there is enough interest I can see about doing a GB on these?


yeah go on Rich  :happy2:

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Re: R8 coilpacks - yes or no?
« Reply #8 on: July 02, 2014, 05:07:44 pm »
Good lad^

I'm interested too!  :smiley:
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Re: R8 coilpacks - yes or no?
« Reply #9 on: July 02, 2014, 05:10:27 pm »
If there is enough interest I can see about doing a GB on these?


yeah go on Rich  :happy2:

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Re: R8 coilpacks - yes or no?
« Reply #10 on: July 02, 2014, 05:14:46 pm »
Count me in  :happy2:

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Re: R8 coilpacks - yes or no?
« Reply #11 on: July 02, 2014, 06:53:02 pm »
What's the advantage of the R8 ones over the OEM ones?

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Re: R8 coilpacks - yes or no?
« Reply #12 on: July 02, 2014, 08:24:20 pm »
could be intrusted  :smiley:
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Re: R8 coilpacks - yes or no?
« Reply #13 on: July 02, 2014, 08:29:26 pm »
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Re: R8 coilpacks - yes or no?
« Reply #14 on: July 02, 2014, 09:14:38 pm »
Would be interested in a set of these to go in with the new sparks  :smiley:
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