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Old Apr 28, 2009 | 08:41 AM
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Sold my 308+whp del sol a few weeks ago. It was a very fun car, but I wanted something a little more DD friendly and better in the winter, so here it is...It's a 2001 Audi A4 Quattro with the sport package. I've done a few appearance mods and plan on chipping it with GIAC in the next few weeks. Enjoy!

Gauge Rings(boost gauge will match with silver trim)



18X8 B7 RS4's look great IMO





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Old Apr 28, 2009 | 09:14 AM
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Lower......lower
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Old Apr 28, 2009 | 09:29 AM
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Nice change! Good luck with service costs...its a bitch.
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Old Apr 28, 2009 | 09:55 AM
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I know everybody is going to keep saying lower, lower! lol. I'm not doing that anytime soon. I wanna enjoy the quattro in the winter with ground clearance. I don't think it looks bad at the current ride height, but it would look better dropped....that I agree with!


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Nice change! Good luck with service costs...its a bitch.

Service costs? what service costs! I'll do my own service... haha.
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Old Apr 28, 2009 | 11:45 AM
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I know everybody is going to keep saying lower, lower! lol. I'm not doing that anytime soon.


Lower!!!!


lol
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Old Apr 28, 2009 | 12:29 PM
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pics of the sol?
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Old Apr 28, 2009 | 12:55 PM
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I love those cars. Sweet wheels too. Now lower that beast.
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Old Apr 28, 2009 | 12:57 PM
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If you can do your own repairs, then kudo's!!!
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Old Apr 28, 2009 | 01:23 PM
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Lower lower lower!!!!
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Old Apr 28, 2009 | 04:58 PM
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Originally Posted by skylinetph26
If you can do your own repairs, then kudo's!!!
I've done a tie rod, an oil change, battery replacement, removed headlights to replace bulbs(can't believe you can't get to them without doing that), and a few other things. haha.

I do have pics of the sol...search my username. Go back a little bit to see it before it was hit in the door/fender.
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Old Apr 28, 2009 | 06:39 PM
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Lower......lower......lower......lol
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Old Apr 29, 2009 | 09:59 AM
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haha, wow...if anything, i'm only going another 0.8-1.0 inches. I wanna keep it to where it can be aligned, good ground clearance, etc....
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Service costs? what service costs! I'll do my own service... haha.
Have fun removing the front end of the car to do a timing belt lol I see you are at 135K. Audi recomends changing it every 90K but they usually break before that. most people recomend every 70K which would be 140K for you.



You should go lower just get some coilovers and firestone offers life time alignments. Just slam it in the summer and raise it in the winter
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Old Apr 29, 2009 | 01:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Scotty Dosent Know
Have fun removing the front end of the car to do a timing belt lol I see you are at 135K. Audi recomends changing it every 90K but they usually break before that. most people recomend every 70K which would be 140K for you.



You should go lower just get some coilovers and firestone offers life time alignments. Just slam it in the summer and raise it in the winter
Yeh man, that's not ****...you do have to remove the entire front end to do it, but it just was done 8k ago! lol. Bought the car off my landlord. He just had that done. Had a dead battery, cracked windshield, bad tie rod, needed alignment, tires, and headlight bulbs. He just got sick of servicing it, so sold it to me cheap!
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Old Apr 29, 2009 | 01:47 PM
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and i also just had it aligned, so i did get firestones lifetime alignment. They even said that I could do suspension work, lower the car, etc and they would still align it free of charge because i purchased the lifetime.
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Old Apr 30, 2009 | 08:18 AM
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Ummm....automatic...?
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Old Apr 30, 2009 | 03:14 PM
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my favourite year of A4 with my favourite audi rims of all time!!! nice work!

yeah everyone does say lower

quick choppy



oh and an RS4 bumper would complete the look
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Old Apr 30, 2009 | 04:25 PM
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Ummm....automatic...?
Yes sir, with tiptronic. I'm goign to be getting the GIAC tip chip which gives 0.2 second shifts. After driving a 6 puck in city traffic on bad roads, I welcome the auto. It's a daily driver...

Thanks for the chop!
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Old Apr 30, 2009 | 06:02 PM
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Nice car, mine looks very similar



Enjoy it!
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Old May 1, 2009 | 07:16 AM
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I've seen a lot of pictures of your car! Are they yellow painted fogs or yellow bulbs? I've considered either yellow bulbs out of my high beams or painting them with krylon stained glass paint
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Old May 1, 2009 | 02:04 PM
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Originally Posted by PA MATT
and i also just had it aligned, so i did get firestones lifetime alignment. They even said that I could do suspension work, lower the car, etc and they would still align it free of charge because i purchased the lifetime.

haha sounds like your golden then! the T belt is the major bitch good thing it was done. I always get the life time alignment and you really can use it all the time. I have slammed the car for a photo shoot, gotten it aligned then taken it in the next day raised up and had them re align it lol They love me in there
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Old May 1, 2009 | 10:18 PM
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haha, what can they really say? They agreed to the terms
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Old May 2, 2009 | 11:07 AM
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LOL @ slamming the car, raising it, and taking it in the next day for another alignment.

Nice car. A guy I used to work with had the same one though and it was giving him all kinds of problems and his was right around 130,000 miles.
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Old May 2, 2009 | 05:45 PM
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yeh, it's no good old reliable honda...thats for sure. I'm prepared for the fact that I more than likely will have trouble. I'll probably drive it for a year and send it down the road
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Old May 4, 2009 | 06:19 PM
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not bad. do you really have to remove front end to do timing belt job? thats crazy.
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