New to Audi, picked up a 2016 S3

[Laoschris]

Hey everyone. I figured I would setup a little intro thread on the S3 I picked up recently. I came from the JDM/tuner world. Owned a Lancer Evo 8 prior to this, S2000, and a few others. This is my first Audi, and can't stress how much I love it already.

It's a Florett Silver with not many options on it. I didn't really want Nav and many extras. It's as simple as it gets, compared to a lot of others I've seen on here.

Don't have really many plans for it at the moment, but I will be getting the windows tinted, got the resonator delete kit on it, and maybe lowering it.

Here are some pictures, and I hope to learn and get to know some of you guys on here!

[Blairautomotive]

Looks great!

[HurrayFive]

Enjoy it, looks slick! I didn't have many plans for mine a year ago either. And noooow here we are (mods in sig), hah.

[SoCal S3]

I def like the Florett Silver with the Silver wheels.....Looks really clean.
welcome to the silver club!

[tateltot]

Ahoy! Former 4G63 (DSMer) here. Welcome aboard.

[Laoschris]

Looks great!

Thanks sir!

Enjoy it, looks slick! I didn't have many plans for mine a year ago either. And noooow here we are (mods in sig), hah.

Every time I get on here, I see builds, and people modding it. I keep telling myself no, but I know it'll eventually happen. haha I'm afraid to get any tuning done, because I feel like with me, something will happen. I read different threads saying you can flash it back, it can't be traced, etc. Have you ran into flashing the car back to stock and taking it back to the dealer without issues? I think that's the main reason why I don't want to [majorly] mod the car, because I don't want issues later, if I need the warranty.

I def like the Florett Silver with the Silver wheels.....Looks really clean.
welcome to the silver club!

Thanks! I was never a fan of silver until I picked up my Evo, and realized how clean it always looked no matter if it was actually dirty.

Ahoy! Former 4G63 (DSMer) here. Welcome aboard.

You ever miss the 4G? I miss the Evo, and definitely regret selling it. What'd you have?

[tateltot]

I had a 98 GS-T. After adding 150 horsepower to it, it was a pretty finicky little harlot. It was great to learn on but I don't miss it. :)

[HurrayFive]

Every time I get on here, I see builds, and people modding it. I keep telling myself no, but I know it'll eventually happen. haha I'm afraid to get any tuning done, because I feel like with me, something will happen. I read different threads saying you can flash it back, it can't be traced, etc. Have you ran into flashing the car back to stock and taking it back to the dealer without issues? I think that's the main reason why I don't want to [majorly] mod the car, because I don't want issues later, if I need the warranty.

This is my 2nd tuned Audi, waited the first 1500 miles on each to make sure I didn't have any defects from the factory in the engine/trans/turbo. Have had no issues in both so far (knock on wood)

There's tons of threads and a whole procedure on the warranty issue. My dealer has never given me trouble on the visible mods. I have APR software and flash back to stock at my tuning shop before every scheduled service visit @ the dealer. So long as you put ~30-50 miles on the car after going back to stock to reset environmental and other "learned" cached data, and you're only going in for a service visit or minor warranty concern, you shouldn't have anything to worry about. 10 such visits across 2 Audis and never an auto-TD1, search for that to know more. At the end of the day tho, none of that is guaranteed. The S3 isn't my daily, if it has a major failure I'm prepared to pay out of pocket to fix it, can't count on warranty for that anymore. 400HP/TQ in this little car is just so damned fun though :)

tateltot
Ahoy! Former 4G63 (DSMer) here. Welcome aboard.

There are dozens of us, dozens! Haha, '91 GSX was my intro to the 4G63 and the turbo world. Bought one in 2003 when I turned 17 with all the money I had saved from my first job. Wrenched on that thing CONSTANTLY, it was broken down more than it was alive and I still loved it. It's the car that made me think I wanted to be a mechanic for a short while before getting back into computer science. Ahh, memories!

[Laoschris]

Thanks for the input man! I've been reading a ton of threads, and I am definitely wanting to get a tune on it to open this thing up with a little more power, but I am scared haha. Maybe when I grow a pair after I drive it a little more, the mod bug will hit me harder.

I miss the evo and the power it made on small amounts of mods and wasn't as expensive. I didn't have to wrench on it as much as other DSM guys or like you all, other than needing to replace a radiator, a throw out bearing, and injector seals lol.