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Post by bobjebb » Sat Apr 28, 2007 9:02 am

Personally, if I had one, I'd leave it alone for the nominal improvements, unless you have a great relationship with your dealer who in turn have a great relationship with a tuner.

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RS4 B5. Where it all started.
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Replaced by RS6. I like(d).
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Post by binder » Sat Apr 28, 2007 1:43 pm

Autocar tests use measuring equipment not car speedo.

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Post by sykotoy » Sat Apr 28, 2007 1:53 pm

Rob wait till next week when my audi guy gets back from germany with any details of RS4 upgrades.....

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Post by VARSITY » Sat Apr 28, 2007 3:22 pm

kman wrote:
binder wrote:If I remember rightly the Autocar road test achieved 163 mph. I believe there is a post in here somewhere that states this is the max with the limiter. Talking to someone from Audi at Goodwood last year I was told that 185 possible with no limiter.
is that 163 indicated speed or gps speed?
It was on both GPS, constant on the Road Angel and up and down from 162 to 164 with the Snooper.

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Post by djcevo » Sat Apr 28, 2007 3:33 pm

I can confirm that with the limiter the speedo reads 169 mph and doesnt budge and gps reads 165. WIthout the limiter I have taken mine to 182 on the speedo and 177 on the gps. I was behind a 997 GT3 last week and his speedo was reading 186 and mine read 180 (shows how inaccurate some speedos are)!!!

The guy was on the same trip as myself and he said that over 120 he was flat out and I could stay with him, he was surprised, but not as much I was - but I think it was because his car had only covered about 3/4k and therefore still very tight.

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Post by VARSITY » Sun Apr 29, 2007 3:31 pm

It was still very scary! The world looks very different at 165!
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