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Door blade
Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2020 3:02 pm
by mojoe
Am looking for a good condition B7 RS4 ,drivers door blade.
Will pay good money !
Re: Door blade
Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2020 5:11 pm
by Jon_J
mojoe wrote:Am looking for a good condition B7 RS4 ,drivers door blade.
Will pay good money !
If you’re happy to pay good money, just buy a new one. They are £100 ish.
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Re: Door blade
Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2020 5:23 pm
by mojoe
audi stopped making them,about 3 months ago. There was one at t.p.s,my local audi dealer tryed to get it ,but they refused to send it
Re: Door blade
Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2020 6:33 pm
by Jon_J
mojoe wrote:audi stopped making them,about 3 months ago. There was one at t.p.s,my local audi dealer tryed to get it ,but they refused to send it
Is that right? Hmmm.
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Re: Door blade
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2020 8:56 am
by mongo
Jon_J wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 6:33 pm
mojoe wrote:audi stopped making them,about 3 months ago. There was one at t.p.s,my local audi dealer tryed to get it ,but they refused to send it
Is that right? Hmmm.
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I tried to buy them too, they are no longer made according to TPS and some of the european new car parts ebay sellers.
I ordered up from 3 different suppliers on ebay - all said they had stock of drivers side - none of them arrived and they issued refunds. I got hold of a new one from a website in germany thankfully - but it was new 'old' stock.
Re: Door blade
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2020 7:00 pm
by mojoe
Have you got the contact details,for this company
Re: Door blade
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2020 9:03 am
by mongo
Re: Door blade
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2020 11:29 am
by Look595
I’m wondering if a more longer permanent fix would be to have the blades fully removed and the bottom of the doors fabricated and smoothed over.
I imagine over the very near future the door blades are going to be very hard to find.
Re: Door blade
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2020 7:55 pm
by mojoe
Thanks for the link.I will give them a try.
I took my car to my local body repair
Shop,and he told me that someone else had come with his RS4 with the same problem. He tryed to repair,but it didn;t work.
He said that t.p.s told him that because Audi had stopped producing the blades,another company would be able to start making them.
They are definetly something we are all going to need,at some point.
Re: Door blade
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 7:28 pm
by Wardy43
Audi heritage make them for left hand drive cars already, this will soon be the case for right hand drive cars now that Audi no longer have any stock according to my local main dealer. TPS did have a few still scattered around the country as I managed to buy one through my main dealer for £142 this week as long as I went and collected it
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Re: Door blade
Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2020 7:26 pm
by mojoe
you're lucky. I spoke to t.p.s they had one in stock,but refused to sell it to me.,due to covid restrictions,and they refused to send it my local Audi dealer.The body
Shop I go to ,uses t.p.s for parts,so he ,phoned them,and was told there were none left in the country .
My local Audi dealer,said that he would try to get in touch with Audi Heritage,but said that at the moment they were closed due to covid,and wasn't sure when they would be open again.
It,s good news that they are going to start making them again though.
Re: Door blade
Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2020 10:53 pm
by Look595
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Audi Heritage don’t have any for the front O/S door. I’ve been in touch.
Hopefully someone will start to manufacture them, it’d be a worthwhile product....I’m guessing 90% of B7’s will suffer from this.
I have noticed the cabriolets don’t have them...
I wonder if a long term fix would be to remove the trim, fabricate the bottom of the door have it smoothed/re-painted over? It would look like the cabriolet doors.
Re: Door blade
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 1:49 pm
by Look595
Update:
Regarding door blades I have been informed ‘Blic’ who manufacture door trim parts for the Audi group are in the process now of manufacturing and being able to supply, early November for those that are needing them....and at a fraction of the RRP cost.
Re: Door blade
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 9:16 pm
by Wardy43
That’s good too hear
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Re: Door blade
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2020 10:09 pm
by S700REX
+1 needing O/S/F and N/S/F door blades. Pleased to read someone is going to be producing these as have had all the same challenges as you guys with TPS and finding these!