***** Motors chat - round 12 *****

CIP4

Seen a dealer has an new S4 they are diesel now 3.0TDI V6 350bhp 700NM. The fact they have switched to diesel would be a bit of a downer for me. However I would still imagine it’s a very impressive performance wise and I would love to drive one. I was in a new enough A6 330bhp 3.0TDI V6 and it really was unbelievable for such a big car it absolutely stuck you to the seat it was hard to even believe it was a Diesel engine under bonnet. 77k price tag on the S4 doubt we will see too many going around.

carsfan2

I’m m sure it’s a great car but the fake quad exhausts on the s4 just kill the desire for me.
I would rather no exhaust pipe than what they have done.

CIP4

carsfan2 wrote: »

I’m m sure it’s a great car but the fake quad exhausts on the s4 just kill the desire for me.
I would rather no exhaust pipe than what they have done.

Didn't realise that they are fake whatever about putting the fake exhausts on the standard model doing it on the S4 is definitely not right at all.

tossy

CIP4 wrote: »

Didn't realise that they are fake whatever about putting the fake exhausts on the standard model doing it on the S4 is definitely not right at all.

The are some of the worst fake exhausts i've seen too, don't know what they were thinking. It also seems like one of the most underwhelming cars ever from any decent review i've seen. At least the 3 and 8 are staying petrol.

jmreire

ILikeBoats wrote: »

Question
The estate I live in is still being built. The work vehicles - diggers, telehandler etc are up and down the road all day every day. They drop muck. When it's dry, the muck turns to dust. They and all other cars raise the dust along with the wind. My nice clean car gets covered in dust every day. Apart from being highly annoying - how best can I get rid of that dust? I've been using a microfibre towel and lightly pulling it across the surface, not sure is that great for the paint though?

Dry cloth + fine ( or not so fine ) dust = same effect as sandpaper.

eljono

Some epic comments in this Twitter thread 😁

https://twitter.com/Only9built/status/1242080758094856192?s=19

Tazzimus

Some of the cars in the more tweets bit below it though are whopper.

Sexual Chocolate

Had to look very closely at that

corks finest

ILikeBoats wrote: »

Yeah but it's a daily occurrence so don't want to be dragging out the hose every day.

Do what we did in Derry many moons ago,this crap went on for yonks, and the kids were dragging in muck n dirt ,
all the mammies in the estate blocked the road until the builders rep came on board and agreed to wash and hose the road twice daily,and they fecked up once ie not cleaning / hosing and tbe women n kids blocked tbe the one way in again- result

statto25

Thicko question, would a low noise tyre wear more quickly? Would the compound be softer?

Sexual Chocolate

statto25 wrote: »

Thicko question, would a low noise tyre wear more quickly? Would the compound be softer?

That was my assumption or more so that the cheaper ones have a harder compound making them long lasting but loud and sh1te. Someone with more knowledge can probably answer better though.

CIP4

I think I have a warped front brake disc getting a lot of vibration under heavy braking around 70kmh. Will be a bit of a sickener to have to change the discs and pads when they aren’t that worn if that’s what’s causing it. Plus it has the bigger front discs so can’t imagine they will be too cheap.

Sexual Chocolate

Tends to be a more common thing on automatics unfortunately.

CIP4

Sexual Chocolate wrote: »

Tends to be a more common thing on automatics unfortunately.

Yes its due a service in the next few weeks so I will get them to check it out but I would imagine its that getting progressively worse last while not terrible by any means but there is a vibration none the less.

CianRyan

You'd want to be fairly hammering on the brakes to get them to overheat enough to warp, you haven't noticed a drag in the car at all?
Loss off acceleration, pulling to one side slightly?

CIP4

CianRyan wrote: »

You'd want to be fairly hammering on the brakes to get them to overheat enough to warp, you haven't noticed a drag in the car at all?
Loss off acceleration, pulling to one side slightly?

No none of that the car moves freely as normal.

CianRyan

CIP4 wrote: »

No none of that the car moves freely as normal.

Then I imagine you must have been driving it quite hard. :P

Once nothing is seized you could get away with only changing the discs so long as the pads have enough braking material left and they have worn evenly. Not something I'd do in work but it's certainly something I do on my own cars. Be damned if I'm wasting good parts!

They'll just need a few KM's to bed into the new surface as they'll have worn into the shape of the old disc.

Sexual Chocolate

In the past few days of self isolation it dawned on me that the e90 is de-badged. Might just leave it as it but wouldn't mind a few opinions.

CIP4

CianRyan wrote: »

Then I imagine you must have been driving it quite hard. :P

Once nothing is seized you could get away with only changing the discs so long as the pads have enough braking material left and they have worn evenly. Not something I'd do in work but it's certainly something I do on my own cars. Be damned if I'm wasting good parts!

They'll just need a few KM's to bed into the new surface as they'll have worn into the shape of the old disc.

Yes I’ll see what the garage say but I can’t think of anything else that would have them kind of symptoms. I would guess the discs will be the far higher cost so might just replace the pads with them.

I must check is there much wear on them checked them when I was buying it and they were fine but I haven’t looked at them since there is only 44k Km on the car. There is no major lip on the discs or anything like that.

CIP4

Sexual Chocolate wrote: »

In the past few days of self isolation it dawned on me that the e90 is de-badged. Might just leave it as it but wouldn't mind a few opinions.

I would prefer the look with the badge but just depends on your personnel preference.

If they were warped it wouldn't just be noticed at 70kph surely? Is it through brake pedal or the steering wheel you're noticing it?

CIP4

Augeo wrote: »

If they were warped it wouldn't just be noticed at 70kph surely? Is it through brake pedal or the steering wheel you're noticing it?

Steering and the car itself like a passenger would notice it. Well it’s worst around 70kmh but noticeable 50-80 kmh the harder you brake the worse it is. If you brake very gently it’s minimal / not noticeable.

Midnight_EG

Sexual Chocolate wrote: »

In the past few days of self isolation it dawned on me that the e90 is de-badged. Might just leave it as it but wouldn't mind a few opinions.

De-badging is nice on an M3, or maybe a 335... But a 318/320...

Nah.

Midnight_EG

CIP4 wrote: »

Steering and the car itself like a passenger would notice it. Well it’s worst around 70kmh but noticeable 50-80 kmh the harder you brake the worse it is. If you brake very gently it’s minimal / not noticeable.

That's more likely a sticky caliper than a warped disc. You'd feel the disc through the pedal and will always be there regardless of gentle or aggressive braking.

CIP4

Midnight_EG wrote: »

That's more likely a sticky caliper than a warped disc. You'd feel the disc through the pedal and will always be there regardless of gentle or aggressive braking.

Makes sense. Will wait and see what they say.

vintagevrs

From being through similar symptoms on my own car, I believe a warped disk on a road car is a very rare thing. Possible pad deposits on disk from sitting on the brakes after the disks were hot.
To clear this you can do a number of really heavy braking runs from say 70mph to 10mph. Don't ever stop fully though, do it maybe 7 or 8 times until your brakes begin to fade. This will clear the pad deposits on the disks. You have to be able to cruise for 5 mins after your last stop to allow the brakes to cool themselves and so you don't rest the pads on the glowing disks again.

Could also be a worn suspension bush. That's what mine turned out to be in the end, albeit not on a golf.

Toyotafanboi

Most VW products have impressively low quality discs. It wouldnt be too unusual to see a Mk7 Golf needing discs.

wotzgoingon

CianRyan wrote: »

You'd want to be fairly hammering on the brakes to get them to overheat enough to warp,

I had a sticky caliper a few months ago. And got home and out of the car looked at the disc and it was glowing red. I'm still raging I never took a picture. It was as if it had just come out of a forge.

Sexual Chocolate

Midnight_EG wrote: »

De-badging is nice on an M3, or maybe a 335... But a 318/320...

Nah.

Do you reckon it would of being done at some stage by a previous owner or could it off come out of the factory like that ?

I'll probably end up leaving it as it is as id feel a badge would be an unnecessary expense tbh. I've put enough into it already. Can only imagine what one would cost of BM.

Midnight_EG

Sexual Chocolate wrote: »

Do you reckon it would of being done at some stage by a previous owner or could it off come out of the factory like that ?

I'll probably end up leaving it as it is as id feel a badge would be an unnecessary expense tbh. I've put enough into it already. Can only imagine what one would cost of BM.

Absolutely, these days it actually COSTS customers to debadge their cars!