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Haha wow. Just went to purchase the intercooler off ECS and in a matter of 2 days the price of shipping has gone from $289 to $779!! what the hell is going on there!!
Golf MK VI Silverleaf 118TSI Installed
|APR Stage 1 |MDI| RNS 510| K&N 57S series Intake|Golf R32 Pedals| | Audi S3 Intercooler | Detroits|
Did some google-ing and found a parts company based in Germany that has it landed at $535 which is only 20 more then the old ECS price, so not to bad really, so going to grab it off them.
Im assuming if the part number is the same one listed on the ECS website that it will be the same. The picture they have has the alloy end to the tanks, but the only thing that has me worried is the listing is under the 2.0l FSI instead of TSI.
Golf MK VI Silverleaf 118TSI Installed
|APR Stage 1 |MDI| RNS 510| K&N 57S series Intake|Golf R32 Pedals| | Audi S3 Intercooler | Detroits|
Bit more to it than just that. The whole front end has to come off to get old cooler out then install the new one. Your looking at 3hrs work!
Sure thing, but the process is pretty easy/straight forward: bumper off, chop-chop, new IC+srews on, Bumper on. Not very challenging work...DIY possible...
Sure thing, but the process is pretty easy/straight forward: bumper off, chop-chop, new IC+srews on, Bumper on. Not very challenging work...DIY possible...
Righto mate. I should have got you to install mine then hey. DIY if I had all the the tools and a hoist makes life easy.
Looking into doing the S3 IC swap too, but found a post on a random forum earlier today where a guy with a South African Mk6 GTI reckons that his factory cooler was the same thickness as the S3 cooler, just with the plastic end tanks rather than the aluminium ones, and only noticed while swapping it for the S3 IC he ordered. Another guy in Malaysia said his factory hoses lined up perfectly with the S3 cooler, and didn't need any trimming to fit.
It makes me wonder if there's been a changeover to the bigger IC from the factory sometime along the MY evolution from when the Mk6 GTI was first released up until now. Can anyone confirm or provide any more info?
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