Tough arches

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Tough arches

Post by RIV » Sun Oct 05, 2014 1:56 pm

Was looking at my car round a friends house today and was thinking back to when the b8 first came out, there was a lot of comments regarding how poor the arches are compared to the b7, I'm thinking the b8's are better???
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Re: Tough arches

Post by Ian_C » Sun Oct 05, 2014 2:11 pm

I love the Ur Quattro style box arches. I loved them on the C6 and I love them on the B8
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Re: Tough arches

Post by HYFR » Sun Oct 05, 2014 5:11 pm

nope.

they are good.

but B7 is phat

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Re: Tough arches

Post by lengster1 » Sun Oct 05, 2014 8:02 pm

B8 seems really colour sensitive,I like grey and prism silver but many other colours look like black editions until had a good second look.

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Re: Tough arches

Post by Rick_RS4 » Sun Oct 05, 2014 8:15 pm

lengster1 wrote:B8 seems really colour sensitive.
i agree,

they remind me of my old clio williams days, b8 looks good but b7 is phatter

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Re: Tough arches

Post by RIV » Sun Oct 05, 2014 8:50 pm

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Picture of my old car in Switzerland, guess they both look tough in a different way :smile_smoking:

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Re: Tough arches

Post by carsarecool » Sun Oct 05, 2014 8:54 pm

Had a mint Daytona B7 follow me for a while yesterday and it still looks proper fresh and phat.

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Re: Tough arches

Post by lengster1 » Sun Oct 05, 2014 9:52 pm

Grey b8 on rotors look the nuts too!

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Re: Tough arches

Post by Noyjatat » Sun Oct 05, 2014 10:55 pm

Sorry buddy I gotta go with the B7 too more because it follows the shape of the wheel below while still being phat, the box effect kinda looks outta place to me.

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Re: Tough arches

Post by RIV » Sun Oct 05, 2014 11:55 pm

Sorry buddy I gotta go with the B7 too more because it follows the shape of the wheel below while still being phat, the box effect kinda looks outta place to me.
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Re: Tough arches

Post by Graeme4130 » Mon Oct 06, 2014 6:46 am

I love the arches on the b8, but I always see :
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Gone - 11/06 B7 RS4 Avant - black/black (Daily drive & kids taxi)
Gone - 05/13 B8 RS4 Avant - Suzuka grey (Daily drive & kids taxi)
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Gone - 09/14 B8 RS4 Avant - Misano Red/Ceramics (Daily drive & kids taxi)

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Re: Tough arches

Post by GrahamS4 » Mon Oct 06, 2014 6:49 am

I liked those at the time as well!
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Re: Tough arches

Post by TechNick » Mon Oct 06, 2014 6:51 am

Is it wrong to like them all, including this one?
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Re: Tough arches

Post by RIV » Mon Oct 06, 2014 9:20 am

Nice!!!

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Re: Tough arches

Post by Revolution » Mon Oct 06, 2014 12:34 pm

Love my arches slightly better than the B7's....
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