[SwissJetPilot]

Performance Shock came up on an R8 Forum. You might want to email or call them and verify. .

I just found this post on the R8Talk Forum (dated Jan 2, 2020) and it looks like Nagengast is making themselves available in North America. They're willing to do a core exchange where they send you a rebuilt set, and you just ship yours to them after you make the swap and are then reimbursed for the core charge. Sure beats putting your car up on blocks for 6-8 weeks waiting for them to be rebuilt!

I'm going to fire off an email just to see what they're quoting for the TT Mk2 Mag Shocks -

Nagengast Magnetic Ride Shocks Regeneration - USA/Canada
https://www.r8talk.com/threads/nagengas ... da.168623/
email: raf@nagengast.pl
Instagram: @nagengast.usa

 

[SwissJetPilot]

@ TT'sRevenge - Well no luck I'm afraid. :? After rotating the wheels and giving the undercarriage a good wash, it looks like the PN stickers are long gone. I'd have to contact Audi and given them the VIN to see if they can look them up.

You can see where the stickers were, but 14-years and over 100,000km have taken their toll.

 

[TT'sRevenge]

Hey thanks for checking. Yeah as mentioned I'm supposed to have the 025E shocks as per my VIN and my 1BQ option code. However I bought the 025F anyway lol, as I got them at a pretty darn good price I must say. Going for broke on them working fine. Hopefully no errors or real functional differences. I have a feeling they are merely a bit softer which for me is actually a bonus. At worst I will have to re-sell them, with the added caps (which you can't remove once installed as we've mentioned here). Crossing fingers! Will have them next week most likely, will get around to putting them on before May, will update on how it goes. Other alternative if they don't work right would be getting the 1BL suspension controller as I still need to get the fronts anyway, so maybe changing those to 1BL (if there are different ones up front?) and changing the controller would suffice.

I dunno, it's basically an expensive game of trial and error which is how I seem to roll these days :lol:

 

[SwissJetPilot]

I received a reply from Nagengast -

Thanks for reaching out! We have not heard of anyone needing their Audi TT shocks be remanufactured. Those are relatively inexpensive ($700) in comparison to R8 (~$2,500). Shipping those shocks from USA to Poland would end up being costing the same as buying a brand new part.

Raf Chelstowski
raf@nagengast.pl

So it looks like it might not be worth the expense to have them rebuilt. But for anyone in Europe, it might be worth contacting them to get a quote and turn around time.

 

[TT'sRevenge]

Oh cool thanks! Yeah so I guess I was on the right track thinking it'd be too expensive to have the service done along with shipping them. I guess to the garbage they will go in that case!

Funny how they say the TT ones are "inexpensive" though :lol: I guess everything is relative though as compared to the R8 ones which are several times more expensive, they would be inexpensive.

 

[TT'sRevenge]

Well I got the shocks today, they are nice and new as described...just need to get all the engine stuff taken care of and then I can get these installed. I guess I'll order the caps on Monday. Once I have them in will say how it turns out.

Interestingly of the multitude of labels on them and the tape around them and foam protecting the rods, there's one that says "warehouse added incident" which explains how they went to a wholesaler I guess--they must have been shipped in error or something. All the dates on the different labels are from 2020 so these haven't been sitting long.

Crossing fingers they work out when installed!