S3 intercooler install Brisbane

[Brendan_A]

My S3 cooler was 10mm thicker than my stock one and I had to cut off the stock ends.

There are plenty of good reviews of the S3 cooler on the US forums. My brother is getting an S3 cooler installed in his mk6 GTI next week.

[Dan_3MPS]

Agreed on the great info on the US forums about the S3 intercooler, that's where I found out about it.

Just wondering if VW has already done the upgrade for those of use with later Mk6 GTI's (in my case MY12) as part of their changes.

If not, then I'll be grabbing one!

[Brendan_A]

What makes you think they have upgraded the intercooler on the later cars?

I've noticed the MY12 cars still have the plastic end tanks.

[gecko2k]

You're right a set of good set of jack stands and/or ramps always help a lot.

I would be more then happy to fit your new S3 intercooler to our Tiguan.....Sorry I mean your car

Please let us know how the new intercooler feels like, a few guys have said that it takes a bit longer to charge up the system due to the front mount's bigger volume. But a lot of people also tell a lot of bs......

[Dan_3MPS]

What makes you think they have upgraded the intercooler on the later cars?

I've noticed the MY12 cars still have the plastic end tanks.

As per a previous post I made, I found some info on another forum where a guy in South Africa went to do the swap and the one already on his car was the same size as the S3 cooler, but had plastic tanks. Someone else there found the part number for the plastic tanked cooler with the S3 core (bigger than the common/older GTI core). Someone else in Malaysia found similar as there was no need for them to trim their IC hoses to fit.

So I'm trying to establish if this means cars after a certain MY iteration have a revised/larger intercooler fitted, or if I'm on the wrong track.

I'll track the info down again tomorrow.

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