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Hey everyone! New to the forum so any help would be awesome.
Just this past weekend, I pulled into a lot that had some uneven concrete flooring and ended up scraping / cracking my front spoiler and denting my intercooler a bit. The front spoiler i was able to find an OEM part and replacing it seemed pretty straight forward after taking off my bumper, (roughly ~400 for the front spoiler and about ~90 for the plastic grill extension) but i noticed some creases on my intercooler. Any idea if i need to get this checked / replaced?
Eessh, that sucks. I would think you are fine so long as you didn't crack it / the system isn't leaking. And I would think you'd get some dash lights if you, were as I'd guess a loss of system pressure would probably throw an alarm somewhere.
In any case, if you did want to swap it out, I would absolutely take this opportunity to throw a bigger intercooler on it. There are at least 3 aftermarket options available so far: https://www.audizine.com/forum/showt...ion-comparison
Eessh, that sucks. I would think you are fine so long as you didn't crack it / the system isn't leaking. And I would think you'd get some dash lights if you, were as I'd guess a loss of system pressure would probably throw an alarm somewhere.
In any case, if you did want to swap it out, I would absolutely take this opportunity to throw a bigger intercooler on it. There are at least 3 aftermarket options available so far: https://www.audizine.com/forum/showt...ion-comparison
MTM, APR, and AWE Tuning also have FMIC options available in addition to the initial three listed on the thread.
if you are going to have the bumper off already I would upgrade the interccoler. I had the IE intercooler installed on my 2018 s4 last fri. what I can tell you is that there is no longer any noticeable power loss due to heat buildup (which I did notice on my 2013 s4 as well as my 2017 allroad). also have the dtuk piggyback which I was able to turn up (after speaking with them) to negate the pressure drop inherent in a larger intercooler.
04-21-2019, 04:37 PM
Possible intercooler replacement?
