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During my recent service I was told my spare had a puncture, so I took it in the Elite in Reading for them to see if they could repair the tyre.

Unfortunately they found that there was a crack in my spare wheel! Odd because whilst it has obviously been used it appears to be in pretty good condition.

Very strange. I must say that I (fortunately!) haven't had to use the spare, but I am surprised that nobody has noticed this before in the 3 years I have had the car (bit embarassing really.....).

Or has some smart chap swapped the wheel over. Apart from servicing etc I lost the car for a week after it had all 4 wheels stolen and had to have a new bumper last year after someone ran in the back of me (court case next week!).

New wheel is £330 (inc VAT) from Audi or £190 or so (+VAT) from VAGparts.

When I get my coilovers fitted and finally sort out the ABS controller, with recent regular servicing, tax, MOT and tyres (4xPS2s ), plus some paint after a rather too close encounter with a gateway in Devon ( not such a cheap holiday after all), I will have spent the best part of £3K on the damn thing in the last 2 months, so if anyone has a spare 17" Avus wheel that they don't need I would be interested. It doesn't have to be pristine, but not too bad. Most of what I have seen on Ebay are sets of 4.

David

David,

This one ended just the other day with no bids. Might be worth contacting the seller:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/17-S4-alloy-wheel ... dZViewItem

Good luck.
Regards,
John

Thanks John

Good spot

David,

If you don't have any luck, we might be able to come to an agreement. My spare wheel is a 17" Avus with an almost brand new Toyo Proxes tyre on it (been used twice for a few days only after I've had punctures). I think the wheel is in very good condition (I'll need to check), on account of it being newer than the others because I thought that one of my original rims was causing an air leak so bought a new one.

I kerbed one of my RS4 replicas a month or two ago and repaired it myself. Not too bad a job, but certainly not professional. I can live with it, but selling you my Avus wheel might be justification enough for me to buy a new RS4 replica and make the kerbed wheel the spare.

Let me know if you're interested.

Dippy,
Does the 18" wheel and tyre fit in the spare wheel well OK?
I know the RS4's had a space saver and only assumed this was because the 18" didn't fit.

Regards,
John