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Good Evening All Please can you let me know if there are any fitting problems, upgrading wheels and tyres from standard 17inch to either 18 or 19inch. My local garage have advised me that anything above a 17 will either rub or scuff, Your views will be much welcome. Thanks & Bregards...

OK as you all know I'm fairly new to car scene. I was thinking of upgrading my brakes to Cupra or Cupra R brakes. R discs are 323mm, and this means I would need some new pads and new calipers (I think). Are the standard Cupra brakes better than the standard Leon ones? If so, would they...

Anyone upgraded their rear Altea brakes to the 286mm FR ones? i'm looking some part numbers if this is possible from somone that has already done it. The Altea Brake pages on ETKA are incomplete and the Leon and Toledos ones are confusing to say the least. I have looked at an FR Altea and the...

hi guys im after getting an alarm for my car after havin my side skirt stolen.... i was thinkin of having a clifford g5 concept 350 but i want extrs such as mirror window an lights control an maybe a turbo timer or remote start.... is it worth having a turbo timer or do they not do much on the...

Hi People, I have just got a Leon Cupra R 225, revo chip to 265 bhp plus an induction kit. I am wanting to up the power a bit more and have been given the following suggestions. 1. A Front Mounted Intercooler / with remap &/or 2. A Small NOS kits (25hp) What I would like to know is...

Hope I can get some good advice here: With my recent upgrades, I feel the OE brakes are not as good as I now need, can anyone point me in the right direction for some good quality but not too expensive discs/calipers ? :confused: :shrug: Brembo's are out of my league at the mo :cry:

Hi guys, I'm new to this, never modified a car so I have no idea where to look to upgrade my seats and lower my 1.4 I saw a guy was selling sport interior but thought Cupra interior might be better, the drivers seat is killing me, worst seat I ever sat in :) I would also like to lower...

as title trying to get a few opinions before buying my 1st few mods cheers

Hello. I have a 2007 Seat Leon Stylance...buy I don't have buttons on my steering wheel, and no bluetooth option. I want to ask you, if I can find a service that can update my options on my Leon, to have that bluetooth kit, with commands on the steering wheel, that have that big display...

hi guys, i am thinking of upgrading to 312mm brakes and i was just wondering if they would fit in the standerd fr 17inch wheels?

Hello folks, I really need some help fitting audi S3 (2000) brakes on my cupra. i was told you need to remove soms bits from the caliper carrier to fit the caliper. and drill the discs (thats not the problem) can anybody tell me what part to remove from the calipercarrier? (yes i...

If all goes to plan we are taking the forum offline later to do some essential maintenance updates to the software. This should only take an hour or so, but as always if we hit snags it might be a bit longer. So your pre-warned you will have to talk to the wife or husband or do something...

Thanks for taking the time to have a nosey threw my pictures. I got the car in november 06 from former member mchubb, she was exactly what i was looking for. A standard untouched version of the mk3 cupra with only 32k on the clock. Had a Revo stage1 remap installed along with a Miltek cat...

Hey guys! I wanna get some new dipped beam bulbs, which are white or blue! but I mean white or blue, nothing yellow! I heard Osram Silverstars are very good, and Phillips bluevisions. But do they really look white/blue???

hi quick question what do i need to get the full audi tt brake set up? as does anyone know if brambo has done a brake set up for the mk4 tdi?

hi guys been thinging of replacing the standard pannel filter in my FR 170 for the Pipercross performance one, any one done this on there TDI? any inprovement in power?

ATE Brake upgrade kit I know a few people where looking to get upgrades on the Cupra/FR's this seems to be a good upgrade not to far from what unclefester did, but for about 200 notes less (not a porka caliper but a Stoptech i think from the looks of things!) Thought it might intrest some...

I have posted a couple of times in the FAQ section but havent got a reply...I have a DAB at the mo and was wandering if i had to change anything if i wanted to change the brake setup to FR calipers/discs? Is it a straight swap? Cheers Michal

Right guys looking to uprate my alternator think my current one is only 60a looking for around 120a do you knw of any that are straight swap and how easy they are to fit??