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    First significant road trip planned

    Ive owned my RS6 since Aug, and never taken it on a long trip. Well, unfortunately, a cousin of my wifes has passed. Funeral is in Salt Lake city, 770 miles from us. Just gonna be the wife and I, so were taking the RS. Im excited, even though because of an unfortunate circumstance. Haven't done a long road trip in quite a long time.

    Looked over the car today, found my full throttle boost leak, loose hose clamp on hose coming off drivers intercooler. Pressure tested cooling system, checked and topped off all fluids. Found out ill be needing rear brakes this year...
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    Highly recommend the Venaire or Wagner Silicone Boost/Intercooler hoses. Also to help keep them on Constant Torque hose clamps. Never have a hose come off again, even with higher boost.
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    Quote Originally Posted by hahnmgh63 View Post
    Highly recommend the Venaire or Wagner Silicone Boost/Intercooler hoses. Also to help keep them on Constant Torque hose clamps. Never have a hose come off again, even with higher boost.
    Good advice, enjoy the drive, and I'm sorry for your family's loss.
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    Quote Originally Posted by hahnmgh63 View Post
    Highly recommend the Venaire or Wagner Silicone Boost/Intercooler hoses. Also to help keep them on Constant Torque hose clamps. Never have a hose come off again, even with higher boost.
    The Murray Clamps <3

    http://www.turbosmartusa.com/product/silicone-hoses

    Expensive... but man... perfect for this car.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kruat View Post
    Found out ill be needing rear brakes this year...
    Mike

    I just did my full brake job, and so far so good, I can't quite give the recommendation yet, due to limited time of use so far, but the rear JHM 2-piece rotors are working just fine ($795 for the pair), and Hawk HP Ceramic street pads are NICE (~$320 for all around pads, less if you're just doing the rears) - low dust, quiet, good braking power. Would recommend if you haven't done it yet, bleed out old brake fluid and replace with 5.1 (Severe Duty, ridiculous high boiling point, a half gallon of new fluid left me with ~15 oz. in the last bottle)

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    Ya I can get a pretty good deal on oem rotors through work, but I'm definitely going with an aftermarket ceramic, low dust pad. I can't believe how much the oem pads dust.
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    Quote Originally Posted by hahnmgh63 View Post
    Highly recommend the Venaire or Wagner Silicone Boost/Intercooler hoses. Also to help keep them on Constant Torque hose clamps. Never have a hose come off again, even with higher boost.
    I'll have to look into those. I'm still trying to decide if I really want to mod this car or not. Seems to be, once you start tweaking it, more stuff fails and breaks.
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    To a point maybe....but its more how you drive it.

    A proper 1bar boost tune and tcu chip literally transforms this car. I have zero issues with both my cars and over 70k miles of driving between them and 10yrs of combined ownership

    Quote Originally Posted by kruat View Post
    I'll have to look into those. I'm still trying to decide if I really want to mod this car or not. Seems to be, once you start tweaking it, more stuff fails and breaks.

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