A4 B8 2009 from Finland

[enraa]

Hi everyone.

I decided to make a topic here. My car is 2009 A4 B8 2.0 diesel.

From factory:
- Business sport (in Finland it includes 18" wheels, fog lights, sport seats, leather steering wheel, xenon lights etc)
- B&O sound system
- black headliner
- Phantom black color
- 2 color displays

First day:


Of course I wanted to put bags on it. My previous A3 had air suspension too and it was great.
Also bought a set of BBS Lemans, they were ceramic polished and candy-powdercoated. 9,5x19 et 32, LM 155 model.


The front end started to look boring. I got rs-look grilles from ebay:


Next thing to do was the exhaust. BSR cat-back with 100mm end tips. New diffusor also.


Audi parking system plus retrofit:


Then I retrofitted MFSW and Leather alcantara seats + door cards.


It was really a shame that my car didnt have interior lightning package so I made this wiring harness by myself.
I installed 23 new light sources in total:
- Puddle + warning light in each door
- Door handle illumination
- Dashboard vent illumination
- Footwell lights
- Ambient lightning



Next I rebuilt the trunk setup and got a second Viair 444C. I am a great fan of Air Lift products (this car has performance bags&struts + autopilot V2) so backlit Air Lift logo was a must:


LM's were repolished and powdercoated. Something different this time:


So now there is a facelift retrofit coming up. Should get the parts from paint shop soon.


Picture of bbs to end up with.


Sorry for the bad pictures and english

[Gunnark100]

Well done "neighbor", nice upgrades!

[Audi 4 Life]

Very nice face lift upgrade gonna look sweet when its finished. AND EXCELLENT choice of wheel going with the LM's one of my favorite and IMO best looking wheels of all time.

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[Project Quattro]

This is an awesome build!


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[enraa]

Thanks for the positive feedback !

I have some good news; just got a message from paint shop that facelift parts are painted and ready to collect. I hope everything went ok and paintjob is good.
Gonna post some pictures later.

[heatseeker23]

Looking forward to seeing more posts!

[B7AudiSline]

Nice build!

[sferraro]

Next thing to do was the exhaust. BSR cat-back with 100mm end tips. New diffusor also.

Awesome build - looking forward to seeing how the facelift turns out.

What diffuser is that?

[VNA4]

Really nice!
Where did you purchased the facelift retrofit to give the b8.5 look? I didn't even know that existed


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[X Y Z]

What diffuser is that?

Looks like OEM/Zubehor dual outlet. I bought one for ECS, but it looks like they stopped selling it.

[enraa]

Really nice!
Where did you purchased the facelift retrofit to give the b8.5 look? I didn't even know that existed

Thanks. Wings/Bumber/grilles etc from ebay, bonnet from local dealer and small mounting/plastic pieces from a guy who imports oem parts from Germany to Finland. Parts cost about 2000€ ($1800). As you might guess, the bonnet was most expensive even though I got a good discount from my dealer.

What diffuser is that?

It is a fibreglass diffuser from ebay Germany... Surprisingly it fit quite well. I painted it with 2-component matte black paint before installation.
Should be available in the states too.
Edit: Here is a picture of it, freshly painted and ready for install.


I got the parts yesterday, this is how it turned out. My friend came over to help with the assembly, took about 5 hours.





Paintjob is good, almost 3 litres (3/4 gallons) of clear coat was used. I cant wet-sand and polish it to give a perfect mirror finish without worrying that I sand trough the clear coat. Color match is not 100% correct, actually it is not good at all. We are going to paint half of the front doors aswell to fade the color difference.

Anyway the car is now back on the road. I have a car show coming up this weekend, really happy that I got new front end just before the show.

I'm looking for facelift instrument cluster trim also... The trim itself costs around 100€ and support bracket 30€. Quite cheap mod with a big difference imo. Left vent is making rattling noise so new trim will fix that too.
Facelift version:


Check me and our crew out at instagram: @aasuominen @jvs_crew

[sferraro]

It is a fibreglass diffuser from ebay Germany... Surprisingly it fit quite well. I painted it with 2-component matte black paint before installation.
Should be available in the states too.
Edit: Here is a picture of it, freshly painted and ready for install.

Do you have the ebay link? If so, would you mind posting it? Thanks!

[enraa]

I think it is this one. Not the same seller though..
Mine was bought almost year ago so

http://m.ebay.de/itm/AUDI-A4-B8-Non-...-/272120381926

[sferraro]

I think it is this one. Not the same seller though..
Mine was bought almost year ago so

http://m.ebay.de/itm/AUDI-A4-B8-Non-...-/272120381926

Awesome, thanks.

[inNout]

Is the facelift cluster trim a direct replacement for preFL? PreFL is two piece.

[enraa]

I dont know yet, but at least support bracket for ic and trim is needed. But im gonna try to retrofit, looking for parts atm.

Couple of pictures from car show this weekend. Audi was polished some time ago, it has nice shine on it

[Gunnark100]

I dont know yet, but at least support bracket for ic and trim is needed. But im gonna try to retrofit, looking for parts atm.

And you need to modify your cluster as well or get FL one.

[enraa]

Thanks for the info. What exactly has to be modified?

[Gunnark100]

Thanks for the info. What exactly has to be modified?

PreFL B8:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/AUDI-A4-B8-2...-/141776062770

FL B8:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AUDI-A4-Ta...4AAOSwGIRXZbEX

PreFL front face(2 parts), this is outer part:

https://s32.postimg.org/r2sokpe91/321.jpg

As you see, cluster securing points(screw holes) are attached to the face on preFL and on FL they are attached to the cluster, so you need to cut or whatever somehow, to have those still attached to the cluster without outer face!


Some info here:

http://www.audizine.com/forum/showth...1#post11549389

[VMRWheels]

it would kill me to hear the left vent rattling noise haha. look forward to seeing the new trim installed! huge on this, great build!

[AudiRodg]

gorgeous car! great job

[enraa]

Thanks!

Last friday i installed S4 brakes with drilled discs. Calipers have done 80k miles and discs only 1k. Got them from ebay with a good deal
Also a friend of mine painted tail lights with candy red. I really like how they turned out; more vivid and darker red color. Matches the wheels better than before too.
2nd place in car show last weekend. Nice to see that people value the amount of work (and money) that i've put in this thing.

[enraa]

Roads here in Finland are covered with salt really early in the winter. I dont want to drive in the salty roads with Lemans's so I bought Q7 oem wheels from ebay; they are 20x10" et44, 5x130.
Adapters are 20mm front + 15mm rear.

Quick test fit, rear wheel arch killed:


Then I took the centers off and painted barrels with matte black. 4 layers of black paint for better durability. Powder coat would have been perfect, but i had no time to look for a company that does powder coating and wait for a couple weeks or so



Center caps were disassembled. I just painted them with metallic red paint and repolished the chrome parts.


To do list
- Proper cleaning to the centers with clay bar etc
- Sanding and polishing the lips
- Reassembling the wheels with new titanium bolts
- Mounting 245/30-20 tires

[avantagg]

Looking superb, man. The facelift parts really transform the car. So curious about the details involved with the front end swap!

[enraa]

Q7's installed, looking fresh.

I had to modify the original camber adjust in the rear. Got 1-1,5 degrees more camber than when stock adjustment maxed out, rears tucking now
I put new diffusor and exhaust too, looks way better

[enraa]

We were at a car show couple of weeks ago with my friend and his slammed Passat B7.. Airlift full kit, polished rad48 wheels etc



Bang & Olufsen stock bass is very weak and I'm going to upgrade it.. The rest of the b&o system sounds really great so I'll install 10" bass with external amp.

[HenrikMeister]

Hello my Scandinavian neighbor!
One of this sickest build imo. You put alot of work on this! Great job!
Facelift conversion is one of my favoritt


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[enraa]

Hi!

Small changes because details matter.

I got usa model S4 front grill couple of weeks ago, then put it in 34 pieces and painted almost everything. I chose smooth black for plastic frame and gloss superblack for trims and surround. Really happy how the paintjob turned out. I also replaced the S4 emblem with S-line.




Well after I drove couple of weeks with Q7 Speedlines i realized that they just are not driveable at the driving height i wanted. Front pressure had to be around 70psi and those 5x130 adapters were a pita to install/take out too. So i sold them (for a good price ) and bought a set of oem RS5 rotors, 20x9" et26.

Drive height is 0.5" lower, wheels are easy to swap and sit perfectly without any spacer hassle.



I also made a quick 3D render of how Lemans's are going to look next summer.

[avantagg]

Man, that grill came out great! Nice work.

[Spawne32]

car looks sick, great work

[VaLeX_A4B8]

It was hard to setup the headlights, electric I mean..
The swap and the Rotors look sick man, I hope I'll make a retrofit one day, but I'm afraid of the headlights configuration.



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[enraa]

Facelift retrofit isn't that hard if you already have xenons without afs function

BBS render turned into reality last week. Ceramic polished centers (until they had perfect mirror shine, about 40hrs of polishing) candy red M7x24mm bolts, Japan edition center caps.
EZ lip installed too.. and facelift mirrors.

[enraa]

I painted S4 grill again because finnish winter beat the crap out of it. Now I added a lot of clear coat so paintjob should be more durable.


S4 brakes painted too. Rotors waxed with Soft99 Fusso coat.


Couple of days to go until it's legal in Finland to drive with summer tires.