what did you and your mk3 leon do today

heliophile

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Never had this one before...exiting a roundabout with no other traffic around a silver crisp packet blew across the road in front of me, the front assist kicked in and hit the brakes hard, but just for a moment. Woke me up anyway!
 

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Yes lots of people complain about the nanny and leaves / crisp packets. It appears the newer models the sensors are more sensitive that my old 2014 model but you get a red car on your dash, if you dont touch your brakes it does it for you
 
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thebrief1979

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New refurbished wheels and new tyres fitted
 

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Blowski

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Mar 23, 2018
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Didn’t want to start another exhaust thread! Does anyone know if the 290 back box will fit directly onto a 280?

Fancy a bit more of a sporty sound without paying the earth for a system.

I did put this on the Facebook group but you don’t get any replies unless you’re talking about res deletes, mpg or ps4’s


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Damo H

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Didn’t want to start another exhaust thread! Does anyone know if the 290 back box will fit directly onto a 280?

Fancy a bit more of a sporty sound without paying the earth for a system.

I did put this on the Facebook group but you don’t get any replies unless you’re talking about res deletes, mpg or ps4’s


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If you mean a pre facelift 290 and not the new WLTP facelift then yes.

However you may as well just get a centre box delete. :)
 

Deano j1971

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Morning all...my 2017 Leon St300&me was wondering if anyone knows the width of the front brake caliper please.


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Blowski

Cupra 280 DSG
Mar 23, 2018
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If you mean a pre facelift 290 and not the new WLTP facelift then yes.

However you may as well just get a centre box delete. :)

I do indeed. Centre silencer is gone already so if I get a 290 back box then that gives me a 290 set up on the 280 and is the same back box as the clubsport S (I think). I have read that the 280 has a 2.75inch system and the 290 has a 3inch??

The resonator is 100% staying, drone would do my head in


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Blowski

Cupra 280 DSG
Mar 23, 2018
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I do indeed. Centre silencer is gone already so if I get a 290 back box then that gives me a 290 set up on the 280 and is the same back box as the clubsport S (I think). I have read that the 280 has a 2.75inch system and the 290 has a 3inch??

The resonator is 100% staying, drone would do my head in


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Just seen that there was a thread about this a while back which I heavily contributed to... apologies.

I have a 5 week old child, I don’t remember my own name at the moment!


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ray

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I do indeed. Centre silencer is gone already so if I get a 290 back box then that gives me a 290 set up on the 280 and is the same back box as the clubsport S (I think). I have read that the 280 has a 2.75inch system and the 290 has a 3inch??

The resonator is 100% staying, drone would do my head in


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I have both deleted and there is very little drone, at cruising speeds there’s none, sitting about 85 there is a slight done however this is hardly the end of the world..

It’s still surprisingly quiet with both off to be totally honest.


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k290b

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Fitted the Racingline springs. But if a mission doing it on your own a could use a 2nd pair of hands but not too bad.

Comparison to the wife’s GTI standard ride height which was the same as the cupra before

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May 3, 2019
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Finally got around to sorting out the lower front grille and add sensor. Bought the various bits required, including the lower grille and started attempting to fit.

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The grille was a pain to remove, due to the position of the fastening clips i decided to take a hacksaw to the inner part to expose the clips so I could get round and take it out without damaging the bumper.

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Eventually got it out, gave it a superficial wipe and re-fitted the acc sensor with new bits.

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After plugging it back in, and a fault
Code reset courtesy of Carista acc and stop/start we’re reporting normal once again.

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Putting the new grille on was, thankfully, considerably easier than taking it off. Hopefully it’ll be a while before it needs to come off again

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Hello mate,
Thanks for the breakdown, very useful.
I recently hit a pheasant in my FR ..of course dead centre of front grill.
I am now getting front assist not available etc.
The sensor doesn’t look to be damaged, but there seems to be a little up/ down play if I press on it.
Did you buy a new mounting bracket?
Also was it difficult to reset fault codes?
I have obd eleven pro coming this week so
wondering if that will do the job?
 
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