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JUST BOUGHT MY WIFE 04 CAB S4 AUTO
TO MY SUPRISE PLEASANTLY PLEASED AS IM
DRIVING E55 AMG,ALTHOUGH 140 BHP MORE
I MISS THAT QUATTRO FEEL AS PREVIOUSLY
HAD B5 HEAVERLY MODDED S4 BY QST[OUCH]
DYNOED AT 400 BHP, ANYWAY GLAD TO BACK ON
SITE, PROMISSING MYSELF NOT TO READ EVRYTHING
ON HERE AND GETTIN PARANOID ABOUT EVRY LITTLE
NOISE AND RATTLE, STILL TRUE TO THESE CARS REPUTATION
IVE ALLREADY GOT PROBLEMS, THE DISC ON THE SAT NAV
SAYS ITS UNREADABLE, PLUS RNSE MODEL, DISC LOOKS
PRETTY SCRATCHED, ALSO NOT ALWAYS BUT RATTLEY WHEN
COLD,ANY HELP MUCH APPRECIATED

New nav disks http://navigationdisk.eu/

xyber wrote:New nav disks http://navigationdisk.eu/

Be warned there is no guarantee that the disk will work. I bought a disk from this site and it did not work. No response to any emails either. The DVD was a copy. The DVD player can be temperamental to copied DVD's. I.e. my last DVD was also a copy but worked perfectly.

Hi,

Try a DVD cleaning disk. I had the same problem and it turned out to be the laser lens was dirty.
Bought a DVD cleaning disk from pcworld and all is well. The disk has little hairs on it that brush the laser lens.

Regards, Chris.

TBH I binned the DVD after it did not work. But cleaning the lense is definitely a good maintenance procedure

THANKS FOR THE ADVICE ,ILL GIVE IT A CLEAN FIRST,ANY GOOD SUSPENSION
MODS FOR THE S4 CAB OR DOES IT ALLREADY HAVE BEEFED UP ARBS, I DONT
WANT TO COMPROMISE THE COMFORT TOO MUCH.

please switch off the caps lock, so hard to read

tonyredmond wrote:THANKS FOR THE ADVICE ,ILL GIVE IT A CLEAN FIRST,ANY GOOD SUSPENSION
MODS FOR THE S4 CAB OR DOES IT ALLREADY HAVE BEEFED UP ARBS, I DONT
WANT TO COMPROMISE THE COMFORT TOO MUCH.

Hi,

A great mod is to replace the rear anti-roll bar with the RS4 one. It's cheap and easy to do and transforms the handling by cutting down on under-steer dramatically . Don't upgrade the front ARB with anything stiffer as that will negate the rear ARB mod.

Regards, Chris.

thanks chis , i take it you mean b7 rs4 arbs, are they cheap enough new or is it
worth waiting to see what comes up on the classified.

Hi,

Yes, the B7 RS4 rear ARB.
It's cheap enough from an Audi main dealer - I paid about £80 for the ARB, clamps, bushes and clamp bolts. You don't need new clamps or bolts, but they are cheap, so why not?
It's a good idea to put thread locking adhesive on all bolts as I found mine became loose after a short time, others have also had that problem.

Regards, Chris.

The existing bushes could be used but I would recommend that new clamps and bushes are used otherwise the bushes will be squeezed to much and this will impact the handling. The bush diameter (inner/outer) and clamp heights are totally different between the S4 and RS4.