Got a FedEx notification that something shipped - IIRC the only order I’ve got open with JHM is the intake (too much of a wimp to plonk for the LW rotors!), so I guess that means Audi has released the revised intakes and they’re now shipping!
woohoo!
please post pics of the inside if you can!
That’s awesome. and good for JHM and Audi for staying on time with there shipping dates.
Will do! Now I’m wondering if I should paint it… I’ll probably also split the other one and try to repair it or neuter it with the flaps closed and re-seal it.
Different from the last round of updated intake manifolds? Or is this just another round of the updated version we got from JHM?
The we got a couple of the newest version manifolds in. ;D We will continue to ship them out to the people waiting as they trickle in from Audi.
So is this Pierburg’s 3rd iteration of the IM? The last one had an M suffix. What’s the identifier on this one?
yes, it sounds like this is NOT the November revision from what I understand.
I might have it wrong but I thought the next update intakes were supposed to be out in oct…
11Jul17 mfg date 
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Looks the same as my M manifold from over a year ago.
Guys, I don’t think there’s anything new here yet.
I’m guessing any revisions would be to the flap materials, hinges and slave linkages in the rear - not about to split this open to see if they revised to dogbones in back either… Could be just another manufacturing batch, who knows. I doubt Audi will release a statement on it either. If they did it’d open them up to a class action for recall on the originals.
I’ll document the '08 intake that’s on the car now once I split it.
Cosign the above… looks the same as the one I got…
Audi has changed part revision in the past and not changed the suffix and that is possible through a few loop holes. We know that Audi didn’t want to release the next updated batch of intake until 0ctober of this year.
Now consider this. They know there is issues. If I’m correct compugeek5150 if you look at your intake the intake isn’t actualy new correct. Its what looks to be an old intake that failed that got sent back to the manufacture for an update… correct.
IF what I can figgue is correct Audi has sent several of these intakes back to the manufacture and obviously they need to repair them. In that prosses the manufacture obviously would see the flaw in there prosses. And part of that is that the mechanisms get bound up and the mount comes loose. So in theory the real issue is the mount.
That being the case the manufacture can look into reinforcement of the mount and bigger tolerances in the mechanisms. Doing so would make for a better intake but not require any actual hard ware changes and thus not require any suffix changes. Audi and the manufacture would know if you have an updated intake by the actual build on date.
Justin, as part of thier design and manufacturing quality procedures, when they change a part they change the #. As they have to have the ability to know at any time how many parts of a specific design have been either fitted to cars or sold as spares. Manufacturers have to be able to have this level of traceability to track vins affected by TSB’s or worst case recalls.
Either way, glad you got your new IM after a long wait
You might have missed my post but through loop holes part number changes don’t always a cure when there are variations as we have seen in the past. This may or may not be that case but still interesting none the less
And any manufacturer can track parts by build date data located right under the part numbers. My bigger point is that this build date version of the intake manifold looks like a repair to an old intake and this clearly isn’t audi or its manufacturer building new stock parts but repairing old intake manifolds
Thanks, lets hope these later ones finally resolve the issues vs splashing out on a new IM every 60k
Just ordered my new IM from JHM, along with some of those dinky spacers - the budget doesn’t allow for a tune due to our poor NZ dollar against the mighty green back…future mod hopefully. Anyone heard of release dates yet? I found 2 Gen 2 IMs floating around Audi dealerships in USA, naturally they are keen to move them coming in at around the price of a JHM one. It was a hard D to pay and wait for Audi to sort their stuff out…but think its a better long term solution…hopefully!
BTW, I got an email from AudiUSAparts.com re: an “at cost” sale until black Friday. Seems to be good prices. For example, the intake manifold is listed for $1470, which includes free shipping. OEM parts from them seem to be much cheaper than anywhere else for the time being. Time to load up!
Holy shit… at that price, it’s almost worth buying an intake manifold even if you don’t need one, just in case you do someday. Thanks for the heads up!
Unfortunately my S6 is at JHM right now to resolve unknown electrical and oil leakage problems, and I have no clue how much that’s going to set me back so I’ll have to hold off on buying things I don’t need right now
