Kwan88

I have a B8 S5 Convertible with an aftermarket longlife exhaust from the downpipes back. It seems the downpipes cats were cut off and a flange to X-pipe straight through to the back boxes were installed. In a quest to get quiet down the car, Basingstoke Longlife suggested / tried to install new back boxes which made little difference and after over 5 visits, and as the nature with aftermarket its not entirely right. So I have brought the oringal S5 OEM exhaust which has the 2 back boxes and the central resonator, but after going to a number of custom exhaust shops, it seems they find it hard to quote or are unable to help as the oem resonator pipes does not marry up with the aftermarket x-pipes. In my basic mind, I would have thought its just a bit of welding and a short bend of the pipe from the x-pipe to the oem resonator or cut the x-pipe completely and run a straight pipe from the down pipe flange to the oem resonator. But from custom exhaust places it seems a difficult job. I am located in Berkshire and was wondering if there are any recommendations. Only one quote so far of over £400? Regards.

Well I have been the owner of a slightly modded used B8 Audi S5 Convertible with the S-Tronic gearbox for over a month. Whilst I enquired about gearbox issues before I purchased the car and the test drive drive didn't highlight any issues. I got the gearbox malfunction yellow warning, you can continue to drive after a few weeks after purchase. The car still drove normally and I didnt have any issues with gear changes on a hill, nor clutch engagement issues. Not wanting further problems I decided to look at garages that could perform the mechtronics repair kit. Based in Ascot, I looked at 3d tranmissions in Reading and Milta in Bristal. Finally found a garage on Facebook called "Mercury Auto Repair" in Hayes / Southhall and with many positive reviews on Google / good garage review and many FB images of recent megatronics replacement. I decided to go there last week and I had the megatronics replaced today. My car has 3 errors logged in the ecu: Valve 3 in sub transmissions 1 electrical fault. Clutch temperature monitoring Torque limitation due to clutch temperature. Had the megatronics repair kit done today. I also brought the extra N472 cooling solenoid and brought the 0B5 315 105 TC oil cooling pipes and 0B5 315 105 TA oil cooling pipes. The owner Ciprian did all the work and I was very impressed. He used all Genuine Audi parts and was extremely careful with my car. They even had to deal with me watching over them at times for the whole day as I was working remotely there. At the moment I have driven in heavy traffic and sprinted driving on motorways and B roads and all I can say is, the car is amazing. I highly recommend this garage Mercury Auto Repairs. Regards