Edit: The Tires are Michelin SS 285/30/20.
Previous wheels: HRE P43SC Brushed Alu Tint - 20x10.5 et 25
Newly mounted wheels: Signature SV302S 2 Piece Matt Black Disk Gloss Black Rim 20x10.5 et 27
That’s the car originally from Louisiana, isn’t it? I think you and I had a discussion about it some time back, LOL. I really like those wheels, very similar to my Klassen ID M10’s in design with one more spoke and not black.
I bought the Signature rims over the winter off a local Audi enthusiast. After seeing them on my car today I’m thinking he must of had spacers. I emailed him to ask him. Reason being is I notice more fender gap with these (the adjustable springs were removed before I bought the car). It may be the color that forces my eye to the gap.
plus the obvious offset difference
I remember seeing that car for sale when I was looking for a used RS5. I’ve not seen another Daytona Gray with those wheels. Great looking car!
Thanks. I’m changing. the look though. Over the weekend I installed carbon fiber mirror caps (off with the alu). Today I mounted the wheels. Next: black out the alu window trim (with wrap), paint calipers and possibly black out the front alu lower lip. Then I need to start thinking about a slight drop.
btw…your car is off the charts. Love what you’re doing with it. What made you pass on the Daytona? Did you find that gorgeous red car of yours at the same time?
Washed, claybar’ed, compound polish, paste waxed her! Will eventually get a full ppf wrap and ceramic coating. Going to cost $7k~ (CAD)
Mythos? Looks exactly like mine. Love it
Yes sir! 2015 Mythos black metallic. So classy.
I just clay bared and polished mine. that color is amazing.
Slapped on some custom black chrome HRE FF01s, new Michelin PS4S and replaced a vibrating B&O speaker. Looks mean. I’ll post pics later.
I love the rotor look on the RS5, but the damn weight!
Today I drove the RS5 for the first time in two weeks. I think she was really happy to actually hit the road. Didn’t have a battery tender on her and cranking was sloooow but she fired right up. Ran like a champ despite the 95 degree Fahrenheit temps. Way too early for that sort of sh*t.
I went and picked up five new cross bars and brackets for the new Evo RMR transmission cooler kit and after things cooled down a bit, I took the bumper off to verify bracket dimensions (spot on!). I left her on front jacks as I may start to tackle the upper control arm mounts tomorrow. It’ll take me 30 minutes to get the upper arms out and old bearings removed and five hours to get the new ones back in, LOL.
ECS rotors are lighter and cheaper. Look much better against my black rims
Rebuilt my Stern adjustable upper control arms over the past few days. After getting them off, I realized two of the outer bushings which insert into the suspension upright were no longer in the best shape. Not horrible but I wasn’t going to put them back on like that. So I ordered a rebuild kit.
I’d already replaced the inner bushings with poly bushings so I now have four new bonded rubber OEM style if anyone wants them, LOL.
Got them on, wasn’t too difficult overall but I took my time due to work duties and just left her up on “blocks”. A bit over a week was enough to kill the battery. My charger/tender died and I’d only driven her once in the past month. Trying to resuscitate the battery with a new charger now. If it doesn’t work, I’ll likely grab the Antigravity LifeP04 battery and save 30 pounds.
Fully rebuilt!
Here’s one of the Aurora end link bearings. The goop on the top of the ball and bottom of the control arm is grease. Someone put a dab of grease down there. Not sure why…they’re internally “lubed” with a teflon liner. The grease can actually cause the teflon to deteriorate. All four had it and I cleaned the crap out of them before pressing the new ones back in. I’ll post a full writeup and video soon.
I got the software and navigation updates. I am only sure it works for European vehicles though (apologies everyone else). Definitely recommend it. Obviously clay bar and paint seal. Last time I used washing up soap 
this time shampoo as it works ok with the clay bar not being able to find the real maguire stuff in Europe easily.
Per our instruction manual hand soap bar (I used Marseille soap) and brush for the leather and steering wheel too, and for the aluminium color exhaust tips cleaning paste/polish for cleaning pots and pans, sinks and faucets: works better than any non sense specific products or wheel cleaner what have you.
I actually used an update purchased off of Ebay and from the UK. Works in the U.S. too, just need to give them the correct details. I think it was $55USD. I just did the MMI system, not the nav as I use CarPlay and it’s nav system now.
So…what have I done to my RS5 today?
Well it really started about 7 weeks ago when I decided to use my COVID 19 lockdown time (yes we here are still in hard lockdown!) to replace the front rotors and pads. No issue. Then started on the rears and had an issue winding back the piston. Did everthing by the book. VCDS to retract the EPB, had the audi specific caliper tool but to no avail and yes I tore the dust boot. Knowing my mechnical ability did not extend to pulling the caliper apart I decided to take the car to a trusted mechanic I have used for previous cars. They specialise in exotic Euros and frankly most of the cars there made me feel a little inadequate (a Mclaren parked to the left, AMG GTS parked to the right, 911 Turbo behind etc etc). Nevertheless I was still very proud of my little RS5!
I asked them to repair the dust boot, fit the rear rotors and pads, give the car a once over and while it was there given COVID restrictions and me not in a hurry to get the car back, give me a quote for a new exhaust, an ECU tune and TCU tune. They have tuned a few RS5s with seemingly quite good results (although they kept telling me only modest gains are possible given the NA engine and too much tuning can lead to lots of detonation). I was really keen to go the JHM route for exhaust and tune but the exchange rate and delivery costs and no real local assistance made it just too difficult.
So, 7 weeks later I got my car back today complete with new rotors/pads all round, new upper control arms all round, new front lower control arms, new spark plugs, BMC air filters, Capristo exhaust, ECU and TCU tunes…
They are going to send me copies of the dyno before and after although he said it performed a little under factory specs before they went to work. What he did give me is the attached which seems to show a not too bad HP and torque increase plus a max speed of 246km/h at 8030rpm! Faster than I will ever go that’s for sure.
Given I’m not allowed to really travel more than 5km from home at the moment fair to say I have not really got any great handle on the improvements. He said the exhaust sound will get deeper over the next 1000km or so. It is certainly louder, no discernable drone anywhere, but not obnoxiously loud (which is good). Car feels a little quicker off the line (TCU tune apparently) and perhaps I noticed more mid rev range push but maybe not so much at the top end. Again, very initial small sample of driving.
Next up is PS4S tyres to be fitted in the next day or so and while I had given the car an oil change not long before it went to the mechanic I may change it again.
Other than that I can’t wait to be able to take it for a drive on that long and winding road…
He also sent me a couple of short video clips on the dyno but I can’t seem to load them here.
You’ll probably have to host them someplace like Vimeo or YouTube and then share them here.
