New owner

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Hi,

Picking up my Goodwood Green S4 (auto) next wednesday and just have a couple of questions. (pictures to follow once detailed)

I am going to the Nurburgring at Easter and would normally take my TVR Cerbera but because of the number of people who want lifts now, I'm taking the S4.

How will the brakes fare? I'm assuming not great so I have been looking at short term solutions, and from a morning of searching it seems the 'best' most available pad is the EBC yellow stuff, I've never used these as I normally go for Ferodo DS2500's so any comments from people who've tried these would be much appreciated. - or a supplier of the DS2500 in the UK.

The fluid I use is ATE Superblue, anything I need to pay attention too when bleeding the brakes? with engine running I presume?


I noticed whilst inspecting the car earlier this week that the exhaust has an actuator and valve at the end of each back box, from reading posts on this, I was led to believe the Auto didn't have this by-pass system. - Will it be ok disconnecting the air hose on an Auto?

And last but not least, what oil should I be topping up with, will Castrol Edge 5-30 be ok?

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Oh, and what a cracking car you guys already own

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c2hym. Welcome to Rs246. In short:

How wil the brakes fare? The stock brakes are pretty good. I know of people who have upgraded to ECS brakes only to go back the oem as there was no significant improvement in stopping just a reduction in unsprung weight. have Ferodos fitted to mine How they fare is dependent of how you use them, not much help there. But they are good brakes and much better than on the E46 M3.

I will get back to you about the bleeding procedure.

Disconnecting the valves will have not discernable effect on your car apart from making it slighty louder. I do not see why an auto should be different from a manual. I have removed mine and had no issues whatsoever.

Oil? - Recommended is either 0W-30 or 5W-30. I think the spec is VW507.

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Thanks for the reply, very helpful.