What have you bought for your Mk8?

[Exonian]

Both wheels are 19”

Hopefully you won’t have to wait too long now before your car is in your hands 🤞🏻

[M6TT F]

They look like the same sort of sized brakes as on the Clubsport so maybe it’s the low mileage and the extra weight they have to haul down?
In fact they could be even bigger and are Brembo badged



EDIT:

Or are they these? Hard to tell what size these are but might be 340mm

Top image is the VZ3, which comes with brembos and the ‘unique’ copper alloys, which I wasn’t a fan of. I was removing the stock wheels to put the wheels from the clubsport straight on anyway, so the 3 grand extra wasn’t worth it. Stock wheels are 19”, and 340mm discs

[monkeyhanger]

Had a slow puncture ping up last weekend so took the car to the tyre shop yesterday. They found a split on the NS rear inner sidewall and an egg on the NSF inner edge. Typically I’d replaced the fronts in November but they only had about 2500 miles left on them..The rears were originals ( 23000 miles )

So 4x PS4S were ordered.

Went over this morning to get them fitted. They remove the tyre with the egg and the alloy is cracked on the inner rim so I leave the car there whilst it’s taken off to be repaired..

It’s been an expensive week so far…

Eggs are usually so much cheaper a few days after Easter too. Do you remember hitting a pothole at any point or does the wheel seem pretty fragile?

[monkeyhanger]

Both wheels are 19”

Hopefully you won’t have to wait too long now before your car is in your hands 🤞🏻

I have a reg no allocated to the car now and the salesman reckons the car should be at the dealership before the weekend. I guess I'll be picking it up next weekend as I'm in Barcelona with work Mon to Weds next week.

I got a revised invoice for adding on the factory warranty extension to 5 years (Audi still do that, even though VW stopped) and the "barely saves anything" £539 service pack. I think they must've cocked up my discount somewhere because rather than getting £1400 + £3k deposit contribution, the revised invoice including the warranty/service pack is now coming in at £1770 discount + £3k deposit contribution. I think they've done something pre-VAT addition for that extra £370 saving, but I can't see exactly what they've done because it doesn't exactly correspond to any 1 or more component pre-VAT, but the car itself looks to be cheaper than it should be . Hopefully they won't notice! The car invoice total should be £1169 more than it was, with the warranty/service pack now added, but it's only £779 more.

[monkeyhanger]

I’ve not hit a large one, no. I assume it’s a combination of hits due to our poor roads

Easier/cheaper to weld rather than replace?

[BillSan]

With the state of UK roads (a small part of the tens of billions that need to be spent on UK infrastructure, but don't get me started!) I'm glad I stuck with 18's even though I prefer the look of 19's. 

The roads aren't getting better any time soon, so it'll be slightly higher tyre profiles for me I think.

[monkeyhanger]

With the state of UK roads (a small part of the tens of billions that need to be spent on UK infrastructure, but don't get me started!) I'm glad I stuck with 18's even though I prefer the look of 19's. 

The roads aren't getting better any time soon, so it'll be slightly higher tyre profiles for me I think.

I don't know how it's so hard for the councils to execute a pothole repair that work rather than one which will have lifted at the next freeze/thaw weather cycle. Motorway pothole fixes are done properly and the patch edges sealed, they last. It's like that adage "buy cheap and buy twice" - just do it properly first time!

[Exonian]

Had a slow puncture ping up last weekend so took the car to the tyre shop yesterday. They found a split on the NS rear inner sidewall and an egg on the NSF inner edge. Typically I’d replaced the fronts in November but they only had about 2500 miles left on them..The rears were originals ( 23000 miles )

So 4x PS4S were ordered.

Went over this morning to get them fitted. They remove the tyre with the egg and the alloy is cracked on the inner rim so I leave the car there whilst it’s taken off to be repaired..

It’s been an expensive week so far…

That’s not a great week.
Thankfully should be an easy repair to the wheel

I guess I'll be picking it up next weekend as I'm in Barcelona with work Mon to Weds next week.

It’s a tough life for some eh? 

[monkeyhanger]

I guess I'll be picking it up next weekend as I'm in Barcelona with work Mon to Weds next week.

It’s a tough life for some eh? 

It actually will be, looking to get what should be a 2 day GMP audit done in a single day, with a bit of travel done on the days either side. Would love to have a bit of leisure time in Barcelona, but it probably isn't going to happen.

[Kenis]

Both wheels are 19”

Hopefully you won’t have to wait too long now before your car is in your hands 🤞🏻

I have a reg no allocated to the car now and the salesman reckons the car should be at the dealership before the weekend. I guess I'll be picking it up next weekend as I'm in Barcelona with work Mon to Weds next week.

I got a revised invoice for adding on the factory warranty extension to 5 years (Audi still do that, even though VW stopped) and the "barely saves anything" £539 service pack. I think they must've cocked up my discount somewhere because rather than getting £1400 + £3k deposit contribution, the revised invoice including the warranty/service pack is now coming in at £1770 discount + £3k deposit contribution. I think they've done something pre-VAT addition for that extra £370 saving, but I can't see exactly what they've done because it doesn't exactly correspond to any 1 or more component pre-VAT, but the car itself looks to be cheaper than it should be . Hopefully they won't notice! The car invoice total should be £1169 more than it was, with the warranty/service pack now added, but it's only £779 more.

When I picked mine up  (3rd March) it was about the same less (I think) than original paperwork (from apr-21) due to update/change in the on the road tax banding. The way the deposit contribution was handled was always a bit confusing as well.