MrWill

Hi, Newbie to this forum. Living in Bristol and currently own a 2010 Audi A3 1.8 TFSI Black Edition. Had it for 3.5 years and still love the way it drives...looking for more power in my next car but not looking to change for another 6-12 months at least. Photo below, a few months after I got her - paintwork or alloys are not in as good condition now but nothing unacceptable for its age 🙂 Look forward to chatting and also helping others if I can! Cheers Will

One local garage (VAG specialist) quoted me £180+ VAT to take the manifold apart and find out the problem. They also said a new manifold would cost £380+VAT. A second local garage I saw today said that garages don’t like looking at manifolds and it’s hard to estimate a cost even to investigate since they may stumble across more stuff that needs looking at. He recommended I go to a local tuning company (Avon Tuning) as they’ll be best placed to say what needs to be done. I contacted the tuning company and they advised "a swirl flap deletion service, where we simply program out the function of the inlet flaps from the engine ECU so the flaps stay in the open position. The vehicle will drive in the same way as it does now, however this fault and associated warning light will no longer be present. Cost for this service is: £240 including VAT". The alternative they offered was a full diagnostic for £200 inc. VAT. A third garage (VAG specialist) has advised £60 + VAT to diagnose but I think this is ‘just’ hooking up VAGCOM. p.s. attached