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VolksKid83 wrote:
Would a B4 cruise stalk clip in to a B3 MFA stalk, for test driving? I know the steering cowling won't fit over the hazard button.

Yep you can change the stalks over in the housings, one torx screw, they can be swapped B3/B4. Just be careful of the little spring under the screw.

Are you third party only or fully comprehensive?

Wow, didn't even know such a thing existed! Guess they were LHD only?

The parts thing is bolx.. pretty much any claim on these cars will write them off so the cost of parts is irrelevant. the cost of the insurance is pretty much all just down to the 3rd party risk. Very cheeky of them to renew it early too!

Sorry to hear about all this, things change I guess, probably going to have to get rid of my B3 in the summer due to work moving offices and my wife expecting a baby. In the mean time I think I'm going to take the Hella DE's off mine too and go back to standard lights to raise some cash.

I think it's the same situation with catalytic converters, have to be fitted if car had it originally. I kinda feel the same way about ABS etc. My b3 never had it and I haven't died driving it or had any accidents due to not having ABS, but when we got the news that my wife was expecting a baby I di...

Sorry to hear that Roger :( what's wrong with it? As an aside, the entire front end can be dropped off and bolted straight on to a B3 (subframe, engine, box, loom, suspension, driveshafts, hubs, ecu, crossmember and rad etc.) which gives you the best engine (ABF) in the best shell (B3 ;-) ) with the...

oddly it was fine when I drove home last night :-?? so I think it might be the relay. Looking at how the switch works I'm not sure how it can fail closed-circuit, as it's just a spring loaded contact that connects bare areas on the PCB. Had a look at my spare bits last night and the MFA stalk can ea...

Cheers guys have had a google and looks like it should be a straight swap as the hazard switch is in the same place on the B3 and B4 stalks.

Anyone know if B4 MFA stalks are a straight swap into a B3? guess I just need the steering lock cowl to suit as the hazards switch is a different shape?

My windscreen wipers wont turn off, think it's the stalk... have two spare sets of stalks (b3 and b4) but the b3 ones are non-MFA

round or square?

Nothing out there for the rear beam, but lemforder rear beam bushes are OEM and are cheap from ECP. Remember you need 4 (2 each side). Polybushes wouldn't work on the rear beam due to the passive rear steering effect on the back of these- internal wedges inside the bushes change the thrust angle of ...

Can you get a pic of that end of the engine showing what belt setup you have? I know some B4's (including the one my engine came out of ) have a funny tensioner with a roller mounted on the end of a spring loaded arm that passes through the alt bracket, these get stiff over time and gunked up with c...

yeah the velcro sticks to the carpet stuff on the back of the seat, think you might have the cover in upside down, the velcro needs to be on the top as you feed it in. Interesting... Mine's cut for the 60/40 seat. (looks factory) the velcro needs to be underneath the cover otherwise the "60&qu...

yeah the velcro sticks to the carpet stuff on the back of the seat, think you might have the cover in upside down, the velcro needs to be on the top as you feed it in.

If your heater controls work ok, apart from the bulb, leave well alone, if you put any sort of pressure on the plastic parts they will snap and they are almost impossible to get hold of nowadays.

I believe the updated ignition switch is a 6n Polo part, fiddly but not that bad once you've got the spline adaptor off.

Corrado clocks are the same too if you have no luck with the above.

AFIAK there were three imported "back in the day"- one that was Griggseys, one that was painted audi Nimbus grey before being broken up and scrapped- I met the owner by chance to buy some B3 parts off him and he said the rear diff had broke and he gave up trying to get parts. There was ano...

Mine are Hella DE, which use a H3 in the dip beam projector lens and H1 spotlights for the main beams. Uses the same Hella "smiley face" metal bodied lamps as the quad lamp BMWs (E30, E28 etc.) of the same era. They have an internal frame and a separate "mask" that screws to the ...

My dad's old B3 felt like this when the rear shocks went. Very wobbly and vague.

Hi guys, I'm going to view a B3 estate in the next week or so, it's a 2.0 16v GT. What should I be looking for ? :0 ....maybe worth checking out Over here in SWEDEN * All B3 GT 16Valve had 1800 cc engine ( 139 Hp ) * All B4 GT 16Valve had 2000 cc engine ( 150 Hp ) In the UK after 1990 we got the B3...

Hmmm never seen one go on the rear panel like that. Did you have a look at the condition of the sills under the plastic GT trim? I reckon that's gonna be nasty

Most stuff on these is pretty simple. Look for rot on the sills as said above as that's a MOT fail. Other thing to be aware of is the condition of the rear beam bushes. IMO all of these cars should have had these done by now, if it hasn't then it's something that you'll need to do very soon. Bit of ...

Audi 80's had a longitudinal engine so were more like an updated Passat B2. Probably odd bits that are shared but overall a very different car to a B3/B4. Obviously the gearbox is completely different but the block itself would fit in a B4 with the appropriate mounts. Inlet/exhaust manifolds would b...