I appreciate that!

I felt the same way! Can't go wrong with 034.

Congrats! Happy to help. Can't go wrong with these 034Motorsport parts. Significant quality upgrades.

I think that can be arranged.

Very good observation! The installation instructions actually suggested dropping the sway bar for this install, but as you could see, my mechanic worked around that with some wrench adapters. So to your point, doing the sway bar and subframe mounts at the same makes sense. Also the rear differential mounts could be included in that bundle. Thanks for watching!

Thanks! I used the factory bolts.

Hmmm... not sure what clicking noise you're referring to.

Hi. I didn't have any issues on my OEM parts. I simply learned about the upgrade and saw that it replaced the plastic audi parts so I thought it would be a good idea to prolong the life of the car.

I'm not sure. Even if they're not good, I'm not aware of any performance upgrades for them.

Thanks! According to 034 Motorsport, the same hardware can be reused. Can you point me to any literature about this? I do know the rear differential bolts are one time use, but I didn’t know the subframe was.

@@midlifemods If you mean this sentence from 034 motorsports site: "Please Note: The four factory rear subframe bolts can be reused at the torque specified in our Installation Guide. If you wish to purchase new stretch factory hardware, you will need QTY: 2 of N91228001 and QTY: 2 WHT004756A." Btw, the shop didn't use any torque wrench on the video, just impact (air) gun? What's up with that.. Yeah, they can be reused and ppl have reused them. This doesn't mean it is advisable especially with your 500hp monster :) It is a risk. Once stretched bolt never returns to it's original size. This weakens the bolt, and if you try to reuse it, you take a risk of snapping the bolt in two, leaving the threaded part in the chassis. Also, reused bolt could damage the chassis threads, but safety first I would say! You can google stretch bolts or TTY bolts for more literature. Also if you have access to ELSA, VAG states something like ""Always renew after removing." Just my 2 cents.

If you mean this sentence from 034 motorsports site: "Please Note: The four factory rear subframe bolts can be reused at the torque specified in our Installation Guide. If you wish to purchase new stretch factory hardware, you will need QTY: 2 of N91228001 and QTY: 2 WHT004756A." Btw, the shop didn't use any torque wrench on the video, just impact (air) gun? What's up with that.. Yeah, they can be reused and ppl have reused them. This doesn't mean it is advisable especially with your 500hp monster :) It is a risk. Once stretched bolt never returns to it's original size. This weakens the bolt, and if you try to reuse it, you take a risk of snapping the bolt in two, leaving the threaded part in the chassis. Also, reused bolt could damage the chassis threads, but safety first I would say! You can google stretch bolts or TTY bolts for more literature. Also if you have access to ELSA, VAG states something like ""Always renew after removing." Just my 2 cents.

I don't notice anything.

Got the same issue on my b8 s4, seems to be rarely common unfortunately only the removal of the mounts will get rid of the noise. I first thought I fucked my diff up

Do you mean it doesn't have the sport differential? Because it should have a rear differential if it's all wheel drive. These subframe mounts aren't going to be a drastic handling improvement like the sway bar should be. Worth it depends on what you're going for. For me, I'm pushing this car pretty hard and taking it to track days so I want all components to be as solid as possible, even if they don't directly improve handling. So if you want your parts to be more solid and thus last longer, it's worth it. If your casually driving on the streets, it's probably not necessary.

@@midlifemods Sport differential, correct. Ok thanks for the feedback. I'm not really a track guy. Maybe once I have a job where I'm not traveling so much!

@emirh.9376 happy to help. Safe travels! Hope you make it to the track some day soon. Even if you're renting a car :) it's a lot of fun.

You nailed it! It was about an hour. I'm sure I probably slowed them down a bit with my camera.

@@midlifemods Thanks. My shop charged me a full hour for just the transmission insert. If I go back to them again for other inserts/mounts I want to make sure I get a more accurate and fair quote.

@@voop00p its possible theyre charging for a minimum of 1 hour labor. id double check if that is the case, but they should also be forward about that

@@voop00p I did transmission insert in < 10 minutes with ~$25 of new tools 😂 they loved u for that invoice

A lot of people could easily do this installation at home. But my friends at German Auto Specialist are happy to help me out. And I'm happy to visit them. But in the future, if there's anything I can do or want to do myself, I will. I hope you stick around to see 🙂

@@midlifemods For sure man sorry if that came out a bit rude. I have a 2022 s3 and I love the car and I really like your channel as well man keep up the good work

@@midlifemods One thing is I can hardly find any TCU tunes for the 8Y 2022 s3 not sure if you could point me in the right direction

@Luke A Not at all! I'm learning as I go so I feel more comfortable taking it to the pros for now. Support your local mechanics! 🤣 Thanks for the support!

@@MistaBrown420 check out www.racingline.com/tcu-dsg-tuning

Bro... everyone is talking about it. I'm just the only one real enough to make it public. Nobody wants a sloppy rear subframe. Please clean yours up asap so we can all stop talking about it.