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Pete's OEM+ A3 Black Edition
rdfcpete:
^ :smiley: :happy2: Ta dude.
Nearly had it three months now. Few things I've noticed, none of which are huge issues, just part and parcel I suppose;
1) The car takes what feels like hours to warm up (compared with the GTI). Sometimes I can do 7 miles of NSL A road before it reaches midway on the water temp needle (90 degrees celcs IIRC). This isn't abnormal but just means I have to delay any turbo spooled blasts :indifferent: :driver:
2) If you're a lazy driver (like me) and you gear badly through town, you WILL find the turbo lag in second and third. In the Golf I'd get very comfortable and corner at 15mph in 3rd and it wasn't too much of a problem in that. Do it in the TDI A3 and you find yourself chugging or coasting with no boost when you should've changed down. It finds you out more as a bad town driver. I obviously need to improve my driving but just something I noticed :P
3) You get nowhere near as much courtesy, sympathy or politeness in an Audi :grin: In the Golf, people would go out their way to let me out of junctions or slot into gaps with a flash. In the Audi, you get nothing. Yet more evidence that everyone loves a Golf :evilgrin:
adamsin:
Pete. I need wheels. Help.
rdfcpete:
--- Quote from: adamsin on November 18, 2012, 05:59:16 pm ---Pete. I need wheels. Help.
--- End quote ---
Text/ring me later dude. May have a solution.
rdfcpete:
Couple of new bits, mainly to improve braking anyway and also to cope with the imminent stage 1 map that will be coming very soon.
OEM pads on the TDI Audi's appear to be a fair bit of pedal travel, then very sudden bite about halfway down where you almost get a lot of sharp clamp all of a sudden. I'm hoping the HPS pads will give slightly more progressive braking with the Motul fluid too. I had Hawk pads on the GTI and they were excellent alongside ContiSport 3's too, to be fair.
rdfcpete:
New LED plate lights (that don't error - yay!), night shots and a shot of the RNS-E in action.
^'Coming home' mode.
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