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Dats it's stance innit. Jeez
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Audi RS3
- Thread starter Sir_Dave
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Dats it's stance innit. Jeez
Sir_Dave
ClioSport Trader
Yeah, i think if i was buying one with a choice of colour, i would have gone for Nardo, but then, you need black leather with that really, which im not so keen on. I've grown to like the black now, although it does look dirty 100% of the time, which is a little bit of a pain - the Boxster on the other hand (in Guards Red) still looks clean even though we haven't actually cleaned it since we bought it in October 😂
Mega expense for the RS3 yesterday though, 4 x new tyres :weary:
The front 2 Pirellis were bald, then one of the (new) rears got a puncture. Even though it had been "fixed" by Kwik Fit it was still going down, so i decided to replace all four with the new Michelin Pilot Sport 4S. £771 later (Blackcircles, fitted at ATS), the difference between these & the PZeros is very obvious, even just pootling around town, cant wait for a decent journey in them:
As an aside, the reason the rear tyre was still going down was pretty apparent with the tyres off.
Kwik fit hadnt fixed the tyre, it still had the flipping screw in it!!
Christopher
ClioSport Club Member
Z4M
Cracking road tyre. Please clean it though, you massive scruff.
BMW M4; S1000 RR
My M135 is black and also looks filthy most of the time. I like black cars though and you can always wash it before you take it to a wedding etc 
Waitey
ClioSport Club Member
Alpina D3, AC Cobra
Tru Dat
Poopensharten
ClioSport Club Member
Golf R
Whats your daily for you to be given an RS3 as a courtsey motor lol?
Crybert
ClioSport Club Member
Cup 172
Audi A3 1.6 white.
I'm going to have a random stab in the dark at an RS4...
Broken.
leeds2592
ClioSport Club Member
Bean 182 + E70 X5
I was going to ask the same thing!
Short Norman
ClioSport Club Member
997 C4S
Helicopter?
Crybert
ClioSport Club Member
Cup 172
A campus! That's epic compared to mine. When I stuck my m3 in I got a 1 litre fiat panda. To be fair though it was brilliant. 100% throttle everywhere. Put a huge grin on my face
Sir_Dave
ClioSport Trader
Ha ha, cheers!
Plan on cleaning over the weekend actually, need to sticker it up for Le Mans soon, so need to give it a good claying etc as well :up:
Close. Its an RS6. RS4 is gone
BMW M4; S1000 RR
You getting the boat or train over mate?
Sir_Dave
ClioSport Trader
9:25 ferry on the Thursday morning!
The passengers can get on the beers straight away then 😂
BMW M4; S1000 RR
Very noble of you!!
I saw one earlier on, booting it round Homebase's car park! They had the exhaust etc, but they looked like complete dicks because if where it was :unamused:
FN2 Type R +MK6 Golf
LOL, they must have known you'd love putting the weekly shop on the back seat because theres no boot.
Mine had the factory optional sports exhaust and Milltek down pipe with sports cat. Secondary cats removed. Deserves an asbo at times [emoji23]
Firstly, this wasn't an intentional purchase, i was perfectly happy with my green Mini and obviously Audi's are for people that like to understeer everywhere, xenons blazing. Especially the faux by faux ones with auto boxes. The Golf Gti/R however, had my interest, so i was looking at them. Alot. Unfortunately, it seemed that 99% of Golf R's were lease-spec poverty things without leather, so the ones with decent nav/speakers/leather/DSG were all rare/rather expensive and the VW dealers that i visited/spoke to also appeared rather inept. With that in mind, I was essentially getting nowhere quickly. Hell i hadn't even test driven one ...
Then a business associate (not @Waitey, although he did try & flog me his, a lot) asked me if i wanted his RS3 as he was only going to trade it in with Audi anyways ... a quick play on the Barclays app, a loan extension to near Greek levels of debt & i agreed to pick the car up last Thursday. Oops.
He wasn't that into cars, so was unsure on the exact spec, but from what i gather from poking around the car it has the following:
Technology Pack with Audi Connect, Comfort & Sound Pack, Magnetic Ride, Audi Phone Box, Lunar Silver Supersport Seats, Extended Mono Purr trims, Folding Mirrors, Extended Matt Exterior, Titanium Wheels (wider fronts) & Mythos Black paint.
He got it serviced (£380 for an oil change & an "inspection") & put 2 Pirellis on before i collected it - although unfortunately Kwik Fit being Kwik Fit, they've rotated the wider front wheels to the rear 😂 They also put the two other directional Pirellis on the wrong way round last November, so they are pretty much knackered after only 3k miles. Muppets. So im currently unsure whether to buy two more Pirellis (£400), or four Pilot 4S (£800), then sell the Pirellis he just had fitted ... as its on 36k miles, it also needs spark plugs & s-tronic oil change in 2k miles (£400).
Since Thursday, ive done 1k miles in it and my initial impressions are as follows:
The technology, interior quality & engine are utterly epic. The noise (despite not having a sports exhaust) is also rather amusing for something that is currently as the manufacturer intended. The gearbox is very good most of the time, albeit a little keen to get into 7th at 30 mph, start stop works quite well, but i still hate the car going from silent>noisy, silent>noisy every time i stop in a traffic jam. Speed wise, it doesn't feel that quick when you are accelerating (but it is), with no massive "WTF" kick in the back of the head, but if you are rolling at say 50 mph & hoof it so it kicks down, bugger me its swift. Cross country pace, considering it rained all the way home to Cornwall and all the way back, is umm, quick. It weighs as much as a small house, so even in the wet, it feels very planted on the road. The steering is light, but i don't find myself instantly thinking "god this is awful" like i did in the M135i. Although perhaps that is because i expected far more from the BMW, i expect the Audi to be, well Audi like.
Some poor pictures, its filthy already. Black ftl.
Parking like an Audi driver, next to the car that i also part own, but never see as Sarah has it all the time 😂
I'll update this as & when, but initial impressions are very good if i'm entirely honest, it feels like the car that my beloved R32 would have developed into over the years if VW hadn't gone for 4 cylinder only :up:
Very nice car! Looks the same as mine externally but I have the darker interior.
Have you got any plans for the car? Get yourself over to Audirs3oc.com if you need help
Sir_Dave
ClioSport Trader
After much umming & ahhing, this is now for sale: https://www.cliosport.net/threads/audi-rs3-8v-£33-495.811728/#post-11475928
In an ideal world, id probably keep it forever, but in reality, with us also owning the Porsche, TT & R53, there is simply too much cash tied up in it.
If it doesn't sell mind you, i wont be that upset 😂
In an ideal world, id probably keep it forever, but in reality, with us also owning the Porsche, TT & R53, there is simply too much cash tied up in it.
If it doesn't sell mind you, i wont be that upset 😂
imprezaworks
ClioSport Club Member
Mk5 Golf GTI :)
Glwts
Chrisgti6
ClioSport Club Member
MR2,TT V6,Mini x 2
I'll see your Cherry Pepsi Max and raise you a Cherry Coke (full fat)
Darren S
ClioSport Club Member
I can beat that.
Circa 1999 when my Punto GT was in at Fiat...... a pink Cinquecento was given to me.
For THREE fecking days...... 😞
Darren S
ClioSport Club Member
The place I was working at required you to be suited and booted, too. I looked a prize bell-end getting out of that at work. Needless to say, I copped for a fair amount of flak from colleagues too.
The ONLY saving grace was that it used like an egg-cup's worth of petrol that entire time. And I gave it death.... or a very liberal interpretation of that, in one of those.
Sir_Dave
ClioSport Trader
Well a deals now been done on this. No private buyers were interested, so having been messed around by a couple of traders who "would deffo buy it mate, ill pay a deposit now/collect tomorrow", i've simply part-ex'd it. Price wasn't amazing, but its not the end of the world as i paid trade for it in March anyways. Costs wise, including having to service it & buy 4 tyres, the 6 months/5k miles has cost me £360 a month/43p a mile (exc. ins/tax/fuel), which i didn't think was too bad.
Personally, i think as a daily driver/family car, this is probably one of the all round cars out there & id certainly love to own another!
On the flipside, given the choice between selling this & the Porsche, with no kids to ferry about, it wasn't a difficult decision for us to make :up:
Sir_Dave
ClioSport Trader
An auto 330d lol. I'm now officially a "sensible daily driver" person 😂
Exactly that, all the "driveway traders" were offering me £30k & failing to pay me a deposit/turn up when they promised, so i've just traded it against the BMW. That way i get a new car & £20k back in my bank account, so all is good :up:
Yes thought so. Its a fair price to be honest. Usually with a PX downwards you have to bend over so I think you have done well with that. Unless the 330d was 5k overpriced of course
Sir_Dave
ClioSport Trader
It was probably a little overpriced (compared to private, but dealer, ok cost i think) ...
But then again, its immaculate, in the right spec, recently serviced & with new tyres/discs/pads all round, so im happy enough :grinning:
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