Early Christmas Gift

[VJ's A6]

http://picasaweb.google.com/joy.vima...y=PcLhntuxzzA#

Now I just got to install it before the weekend..

[FrankA6]

awesome man, now get them on and tell me how they are!

[scot_w]

H-Sports HARD. They transform the handling. Best first mod and best mod for the $$ for our cars. Put mine on the third month I owned my allroad (and put them on my brother's A6 shortly after) and have never considered removing them.

[04A6SLine]

don't our cars come with a set of those?? i'm just guessing here.

if not. how much do they cost and how hard is the installation??.. please test drive it and tell me your first impression.. i would consider it as well.. i love to upgrade the handling even tho it already have great handling.

[audirs]

sweet, wont be disappointed!

[Gigi]

Can't see the pics from my phone but I am guessig you got h sport sways?
If so, great move. They aresuch a great improvement over stock sways.
Leave rear on street thouh. Roll and dive will be greatly reduced.
I love mine. Even loved them on stock suspension

[VJ's A6]

04A6SLine - I am planning to install them today or tomorrow.. I will let you know how the DIY goes.. Hope all goes well.

[VJ's A6]

Gigi-- you guessed it. I cant wait to install them and for a drive in nice twisty road.

[oc-drop]

don't our cars come with a set of those?? i'm just guessing here.

if not. how much do they cost and how hard is the installation??.. please test drive it and tell me your first impression.. i would consider it as well.. i love to upgrade the handling even tho it already have great handling.

search "hsport" for reviews i think i reviewed mine a couple years ago

these are larger than the stock ones... really really really changes the driveability... it's a whole new beast afterwards and makes the car handle like it was on rails

i stupidly sold mine thinking i was trading in the car

[scot_w]

04A6SLine - I am planning to install them today or tomorrow.. I will let you know how the DIY goes.. Hope all goes well.

It is a pretty straight forward job. MAKE SURE YOU INSTALL WITH THE STICKER FACING THE RIGHT DIRECTION.

In addition to the included directions, I used this as a guide: H-Sport DIY Guide

[VJ's A6]

Just finish installing the fronts.. Pretty easy to do.. One issue I had was the Link bolts didn't line up about half inch difference. I had to drop the car on the left side to line it up. The rears going in tomorrow..

[wofman]

what's difference vs. others, eg H&R?

[VJ's A6]

Wofman-- I don't know if there are any huge differences. I think H&R bars are thinner than hotchiks..

[VJ's A6]

Alright guys I installed the back ones on Saturday. The back is such a Bitch to do compare to the front. The hardest part is to take the old one out and put the new one is in because the exhaust is in the way. But I was really happy when it was it was all done.

I went for a short test ride and the car rides completely different. When the car go into a corner you don't feel the body roll at all. I am really happy I got the sway bars.. I go back home to take a shower and go for a long drive.

This the fuc**ed up part. So I am all ready to go for a drive and I started the car and the CEL came on and the car is not running right. So got the VAG COMM and read the code and guess what I need coilpacks. I was so pissed. I didn't want to drive the car like that so I put the car back in the garage. I am going to call the dealer find out if it covered under warranty and if they are going to change all six..

[04A6SLine]

o.k.. i'm soo f-ing hype by this post... so.. i don't need to replace the back sway bar, correct???.. just the front??..


also.. why don't we have struct bars?????..

[audirs]

u should do both imo. if you were going to only do 1, rear would probably be the one you see the most benefit from

[04A6SLine]

Can't see the pics from my phone but I am guessig you got h sport sways?
If so, great move. They aresuch a great improvement over stock sways.
Leave rear on street thouh. Roll and dive will be greatly reduced.
I love mine. Even loved them on stock suspension

soo.. gigi -- some of us say do both, you say do front... who has experince with both options???..

how much is it for both sway?.. how much just for front??? where can i get the best price. and what brand is the best??..

[VJ's A6]

04A6SLine-- When you do it you should do both. According to Hotchiks the rear bar make the bigger difference and the are adjustable. I got mine from tirerack. Puremotorsport is cheaper but shipping is more.

[wofman]

I think Gigi was referring to the setting ("street"), not literally to leave it on the road....

[04A6SLine]

o.k.. i'm about to put part of my next paycheck on this... so should i go for H & R or Hotchkis...

H&R: front - 275.00 rear 225.00

Hotchkis, front and rear - 392.00

now.. i'm looking, the Hotchkis are about 3mm bigger for the front than the H&R. both rear are the same.. but they are 100bucks difference.... which one should i go for??

[oc-drop]

I'm an H-Sport fan... they re-installed mine to take pics =)

[audirs]

Hotchkis imo. cheaper, a bar is a bar. aslong as they are the same diameter get the cheaper one. in this case the Hotchkis have a bigger bar upfront too.

get the Hotchkis

[stef2.7t]

I think i smell a christmas present for myself.

[bigmerle]

^x2 I have really slacked on getting these

[Gigi]

ok.
1. Go hsport especiAlly if you do both.
2. If rear only, then either. Not sure you can get just rearwith hsport
3. I didn't say just do front. It would make the car understeer even more. The Hsport rear sway has two setings: street and track. Use street.
4. If you do one then rear only IMO

The sways totally change theway the car drives. Evertook a turn in the A6 and not onlythe car rolls but it also feels likeit is pulling toward the outside? The bars will make it more like it is cutting thru the inside of the turn. Feels great. One of the top 3 mods IMO.

[VJ's A6]

I agree with audirs.. I don't understand whey H&R cost more. If you are planning to get these I would get both of them. I set mine to track setting on the rear.

The messed up part is I still have driven my car after I installed them. I need to go get new coil pack tomorrow or Thursday.. :((((

[04A6SLine]

ok.
1. Go hsport especiAlly if you do both.
2. If rear only, then either. Not sure you can get just rearwith hsport
3. I didn't say just do front. It would make the car understeer even more. The Hsport rear sway has two setings: street and track. Use street.
4. If you do one then rear only IMO

The sways totally change theway the car drives. Evertook a turn in the A6 and not onlythe car rolls but it also feels likeit is pulling toward the outside? The bars will make it more like it is cutting thru the inside of the turn. Feels great. One of the top 3 mods IMO.

thanks gigi,

about tha top 3 mods... if Hsport upgrade is one of them, i'm guessing chipping it is another. what's the 3rd???.. DV upgrade??. TBB upgrade?? Exhuasts??..

[Gigi]

I see DVs and TBB as necessary reliability upgades. My top mods taking into account cost and results/gains are chip, piggy pipes, sways, pads/SS brake lines/race blue fluid combo. All performance mods in go fast, braking and handling categories. Greatbang for the buck IMO. Look mods are nice but secondary tome. Meaning if I could not do all those above would be my pick. Then I'd do suspension. Wheels Are nice but truth is my own 17" BBS RC are light, strong and Dow great job. Just my opinion.

[dtoys4.2]

you better get the car running right bro lol. i dont want to be the only C5 at H2O this year lol

[Das General]

you better get the car running right bro lol. i dont want to be the only C5 at H2O this year lol

I am quite sure Brett (Daft) will be there, along with VJ.


Side note. VJ is a newb.

[VJ's A6]

Sunil and Derek-- I am going to ride up with Brett in his new stage 3 C5.. I think that would be more fun..

[Das General]

True story. Don't let him complain about MPG.

[VJ's A6]

I don't think Brett complains about MPG because he drives is car 85 plus miles one way to work..

[asm72ecko]

Gigi - out of curiosity why do you say put it on the street setting and not the track setting?

I just picked up a set a couple weeks ago and am going to install them this weekend hopefully

[Daft]

True story. Don't let him complain about MPG.

Where we're going we don't need MPGs!!! I've got 1-point-twenty-one gigawatts under the hood.