What did you do to your B9 Q/SQ5 today?

[Oettinger]

Damn. Sorry to hear that.

[Txlifter]

HIT A POTHOLE!!!!

Now I've made the sensor gods angry and my lane keep assist is throwing errors.

Module has become completely unresponsive through VCDS. Guess I need to make an appt with the dealer to resolve unless someone has some ideas for me to check. Going to need an alignment regardless.

Might have popped a connector loose. Have a look around underneath and see what you can find.

[nodal]

Might have popped a connector loose. Have a look around underneath and see what you can find.

No joy, everything still plugged in. Guess I'm making an appt with the dealer.

[twopointohtee]

How hard was the install? Did you have any issues with reinstalling the camera?

This was in my list too until I found out that the Carbon Labs one no longer exactly matches the Alu Optics trim. Does this one match spot on?


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[Hippiekiller]

Drove it home (technically yesterday)




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[B18b1ex]

Upgraded my brakes to 375mm and 356mm.
Feels a little better but that could just be the EBC blues. Looks better too. :)


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[nodal]

No joy, everything still plugged in. Guess I'm making an appt with the dealer.

Dealer came back and said that I popped some capacitors in the steering wheel.. got another one on order from Germany under warranty.

3-4 weeks of my car yelling at me every time I start up.. fun times ahead.

[boostin20v]

Upgraded my brakes to 375mm and 356mm.

What calipers/disks?

[B18b1ex]

What calipers/disks?

This setup is essentially the entire system from a 4M Q7 with powder-coated calipers, and custom two piece rotors with ebc blue pads.

I kinda found a place in my heart for the RS5/4M q7/8, when making them fit my b8.5 s4. The size vs weight, pads availability and performance improvements, all lead me to use them.


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[Rare Ara S3]

This setup is essentially the entire system from a 4M Q7 with powder-coated calipers, and custom two piece rotors with ebc blue pads.

I kinda found a place in my heart for the RS5/4M q7/8, when making them fit my b8.5 s4. The size vs weight, pads availability and performance improvements, all lead me to use them.


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Except for the price of the rotors! Yikes. Sweet upgrade though

[B18b1ex]

Except for the price of the rotors! Yikes. Sweet upgrade though

You can just run the Q7/8 blanks and the performance is still great.


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[B18b1ex]

I had a typo the rears are 350 mm. My b8.5 s4 are 375/356mm. Sorry for any confusion.


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[Rare Ara S3]

You can just run the Q7/8 blanks and the performance is still great.


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Yeah. I was looking on FCP and the q7 rotors are 3-400 a piece.

[CHR1S_H4NSEN]

Drove it home (technically yesterday)




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Is that Deep Green?

[Hippiekiller]

Is that Deep Green?

Yep. Freaking great color.




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[chrisdazzo]

Installed these (admittedly goofy looking) T-Carbon paddles from Aliexpress. Cool little mod, I guess!
note the song choice was not reflective of my experience, ha ha

[noyzcij3]

The wife traded her B8.5 Q5 for a B9.5 SQ5 over the weekend.




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[boostin20v]

Installed these (admittedly goofy looking) T-Carbon paddles from Aliexpress. Cool little mod, I guess!
note the song choice was not reflective of my experience, ha ha

I can't wait to get my CTS paddles installed, too many other projects. I find the OE are shorter than I'd want a lot, also hoping they reach further to the outer diameter of the wheel than OEs - should based on their website pic.

[turbo_911]

This setup is essentially the entire system from a 4M Q7 with powder-coated calipers, and custom two piece rotors with ebc blue pads.

I kinda found a place in my heart for the RS5/4M q7/8, when making them fit my b8.5 s4. The size vs weight, pads availability and performance improvements, all lead me to use them.


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I hope you won't have the same problem as all other Q7 owners do. The problem is you warp rotors pretty quick, I think it's because of how heavy Q7 is. I've already replaced rotors 2x on my Q7 with 70k miles on it. For some reason I like the stock SQ5 brakes better but Q7 brakes on SQ5 might not be as bad since the car is a lot lighter. I want those SQ7 sport brakes lol

[B18b1ex]

I hope you won't have the same problem as all other Q7 owners do. The problem is you warp rotors pretty quick, I think it's because of how heavy Q7 is. I've already replaced rotors 2x on my Q7 with 70k miles on it. For some reason I like the stock SQ5 brakes better but Q7 brakes on SQ5 might not be as bad since the car is a lot lighter. I want those SQ7 sport brakes lol

I have done track days with the same setup on my b8.5 s4 and never had issues although the s4 is probably much closer to the SQ in weight. I also run edc blues and ebc yellows and am currently running RS5 rotors, sometimes the pads leave deposits and it give the feeling of a warped rotor when it’s a different issue.

The sq7 calipers would look awesome, but would hinder acceleration and braking with the extra mass. These feel great.


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[turbo_911]

I have done track days with the same setup on my b8.5 s4 and never had issues although the s4 is probably much closer to the SQ in weight. I also run edc blues and ebc yellows and am currently running RS5 rotors, sometimes the pads leave deposits and it give the feeling of a warped rotor when it’s a different issue.

The sq7 calipers would look awesome, but would hinder acceleration and braking with the extra mass. These feel great.


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Ahh I see. I bet it's the weight of the Q7, for some reason front ones go out very quick and we don't even drive it hard. My wife takes care of it. I notice it a lot during exiting the highway and coming to a stop.

[mauromj]

Bought one! 2018 Ibis White SQ5 with the prestige package. A day before I bought it, I ordered lowering links and an IE intake. Planning on picking up an intercooler and downpipe soon so I can go stage 2.

[jlaudio]

Bought one! 2018 Ibis White SQ5 with the prestige package. A day before I bought it, I ordered lowering links and an IE intake. Planning on picking up an intercooler and downpipe soon so I can go stage 2.

Congrats!

[B18b1ex]

Bought one! 2018 Ibis White SQ5 with the prestige package. A day before I bought it, I ordered lowering links and an IE intake. Planning on picking up an intercooler and downpipe soon so I can go stage 2.

Congrats, grab some TGK swaybars too. You will not regret it.


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[ajrdsr]

Nothing major… just first detail of the season.


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[ajrdsr]

Also, got bored and the wife was yelling at me for something so I decided to go back into the garage and install the Cete module and 15mm spacers I had sitting around.




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[Sweep]

Received some goodies


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[B6_Dolphin]

Just got back my '21 SQ5 Sportback from the dealer after some surgery on the rear end. After taking too long to change-over to black emblems on the tailgate, I also found Sportback fake exhaust panels on Aliexpress w/black tips a few months ago. So I took these Chinese-sourced exhaust panels to my dealer. They only had to lower the exhaust to get enough access to pop-out the old panels and insert the Chinese ones (no broken tabs!) in the bumper fascia. They only charged me 1 hr of labor, and they also removed the chrome emblems and installed the Audi Sportback specific black 4-rings & SQ5 emblems, which I purchased ages ago.

Note: The Sportback 4-rings on the tailgate are larger diameter vs the regular SQ5 4-rings emblem.

Before:


After:




For you B9.5 SQ5 Sportback owners, the exhaust panel (3-pieces) is available here:

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/32568...yAdapt=glo2usa

[Sweep]

Starting the chrome delete. Also went with Aliexpress “fog” grilles. Easy to pop out/pop in and fit is good.


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[SQ5-4RiNGS]

How easy?

[Sweep]

How easy?

Passenger side I could pop out with just my fingers. Drivers side I used painters tape and a plastic pry tool. In total less than 5 minutes to replace both.


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[jlaudio]

Flashed Stage 1 ECU/Stage 2 TCU IE tune. I broke my warranty today, it felt good. It felt even better after driving for ~2 hours, the car is completely different. Comfort vs auto vs dynamic. In dynamic it's a completely different power curve. Huge smile. The IE dynamic tcu tune drives so much smoother than the oem dynamic tcu tune. Both up and down in rpm.

[B6_Dolphin]

Passenger side I could pop out with just my fingers. Drivers side I used painters tape and a plastic pry tool. In total less than 5 minutes to replace both.

I did the same after I was re-attaching the front bumper after installing the APR IC, as I needed to then reconnect the front cameras on each side:

[jlaudio]

My tiny dining room is packed full of IE parts, the Fedex driver that delivered them asked be what car I am modding, turns out he's a big audi/VAG guy.

Hopefully have everything installed in the next few weeks. Should be a fun summer with the new turbo.

[A4Maine-iac]

Nice!!

[Wrenches]

Some beautiful cars in here.
Just bought my wife a 2021 SQ5 and am looking for the black optics grille part #. I’m planning to get a quote on wrapping the current grille also and then deciding what to do.

[adamazing]

My tiny dining room is packed full of IE parts, the Fedex driver that delivered them asked be what car I am modding, turns out he's a big audi/VAG guy.

Hopefully have everything installed in the next few weeks. Should be a fun summer with the new turbo.

[jlaudio]

The quickest mod ever, about a 30 second install.




Engine bay needs a cleaning, will do it this weekend.

I know others that have ordered this part on the bay said it came rolled up, this listing shipped it from Lithuania unrolled and sandwiched between two cardboard pieces. https://www.ebay.com/itm/266622089055

[KJ2654]

Installed these (admittedly goofy looking) T-Carbon paddles from Aliexpress. Cool little mod, I guess!
note the song choice was not reflective of my experience, ha ha

How are they working for you?

[ajrdsr]

The quickest mod ever, about a 30 second install.




Engine bay needs a cleaning, will do it this weekend.

I know others that have ordered this part on the bay said it came rolled up, this listing shipped it from Lithuania unrolled and sandwiched between two cardboard pieces. https://www.ebay.com/itm/266622089055

Did it arrive with the 3 center clips?


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