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Old 10-19-2010, 08:33 PM
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Originally Posted by sworksone
The black grille looks awesome. I checked them out on ECS Tuning, and they have two options - one if you have the parking aid and one without. What I'm confused about is I didn't know a front parking aid was even an option in North America? I have side assist, and the rear parking sensor (not camera) so I would need the grille without the parking sensor? Is the front sensor an option?
Yeah, I don't think we have front parking sensors over here.. I have no idea why that's an option, except I guess they sell all over the world?

However, just to be safe you should email them... I don't have any sensors/etc so the choice was easy for me.
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Originally Posted by mm91
Thats interesting... I'll have to call my dealer tomorrow and ask again but thats what they told me a couple days ago. The wait is killing me I can't wait to get my car! Do you know the name of the ship the cars came in on??
No I don't. I can probably call them and ask, but right now I just have the VIN number. Yeah the wait is killing me more, lost my '10 s4 in accident on 8/6, placed my order 8/18 and suppose to be at dealer on 11/3, so I've been car less since . Let me know if you do get yours on that date, I need the car ASAP
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did you spray paint the plate holder?
Old 10-20-2010, 01:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Un1k
did you spray paint the plate holder?
Yeah, just used a flat black "trim paint". It matches the grille close to perfect. That's the nice thing about flat black... really not much you can do to mess it up.

There's no other black "plate" option right now, and I didn't see the point of having someone do it professionally when most of it is covered by the license plate itself anyhow. lol

I used to not run a front plate, but they're cracking down around here and I don't want to deal with the potential fine.... a fine I had to pay on my prior NSX.
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Originally Posted by DrVolkl
Yeah, just used a flat black "trim paint". It matches the grille close to perfect. That's the nice thing about flat black... really not much you can do to mess it up.

There's no other black "plate" option right now, and I didn't see the point of having someone do it professionally when most of it is covered by the license plate itself anyhow. lol

I used to not run a front plate, but they're cracking down around here and I don't want to deal with the potential fine.... a fine I had to pay on my prior NSX.
haha thanks but you know.. you could've just stopped at telling me that you painted it your self.. and save me the misery of being jealous of your previous car.. j/k of course
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Originally Posted by Un1k
haha thanks but you know.. you could've just stopped at telling me that you painted it your self.. and save me the misery of being jealous of your previous car.. j/k of course
Lol... sorry, just pointing out that no car is safe. (some people think that cops won't pull you over if you're driving an "exotic" with no front plate... the NSX was on the fringe for sure, but it played the part, and I still got nailed. lol)
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Originally Posted by DrVolkl
Lol... sorry, just pointing out that no car is safe. (some people think that cops won't pull you over if you're driving an "exotic" with no front plate... the NSX was on the fringe for sure, but it played the part, and I still got nailed. lol)
and that's the same reason I did not tint my fronts I wanna look good, but I wanna look legal haha
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Originally Posted by planbs4
No I don't. I can probably call them and ask, but right now I just have the VIN number. Yeah the wait is killing me more, lost my '10 s4 in accident on 8/6, placed my order 8/18 and suppose to be at dealer on 11/3, so I've been car less since . Let me know if you do get yours on that date, I need the car ASAP
So I talked to my SA today and they told me the car will arrive at the port of San Diego on the ship the Volans Leader on 10/25 so I guess thats were the confusion was. The car is marked pre-sold so they said it would probably be 48 hrs. to 5 days from when the boat arrives until it gets to the dealer. I am sure your car is on the same boat and we should have our S4s shortly!
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From the dealer number you can look to see if the VIN of your car has arrived.

http://www.portofsd.com/audi_start.htm

http://asset2.cars.audiusa.com/deale...DD_Western.pdf

<table align="center" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="95%"><tbody><tr><td style="width: 10.26%; border-width: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt; height: 0.25in;" width="10%">
10/24
Sun
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Volans Leader 20107405334
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VWL
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780 Audi, 519 VW, 216 Porsche, 75 Cayenne, 6 Bentley,
3 Lamborghini, 1 EDP,
2 Porsche Schenker
</td> <td style="width: 10.06%; border-width: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color; padding: 0in 5.4pt; height: 0.25in;" valign="top" width="10%">
1602
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24-5
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2200/23
No Audi A8
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Originally Posted by m444
From the dealer number you can look up the VIN of your car once it arrives.

http://www.portofsd.com/audi_start.htm

http://asset2.cars.audiusa.com/deale...DD_Western.pdf

<table align="center" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="95%"><tbody><tr><td style="width: 10.26%; border-width: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt; height: 0.25in;" width="10%">
10/24
Sun
</td> <td style="width: 21.98%; border-width: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color; padding: 0in 5.4pt; height: 0.25in;" width="21%">
Volans Leader 20107405334
</td> <td style="width: 10.06%; border-width: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color; padding: 0in 5.4pt; height: 0.25in;" width="10%">
VWL
</td> <td style="width: 26.56%; border-width: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color; padding: 0in 5.4pt; height: 0.25in;" width="26%">
780 Audi, 519 VW, 216 Porsche, 75 Cayenne, 6 Bentley,
3 Lamborghini, 1 EDP,
2 Porsche Schenker
</td> <td style="width: 10.06%; border-width: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color; padding: 0in 5.4pt; height: 0.25in;" valign="top" width="10%">
1602
</td> <td style="width: 8.3%; border-width: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color; padding: 0in 5.4pt; height: 0.25in;" width="8%">
24-5
</td> <td style="width: 12.78%; border-width: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color; padding: 0in 5.4pt; height: 0.25in;" width="12%">
2200/23
No Audi A8
</td></tr></tbody></table>
Thanks m444! I will do that.
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