My 01 S8
 

In March of 2019, I purchased a 2001 S8. The car is black with black interior and has the Recaro seats. Here are the upgrades the car received before my ownership: a B5 S4 01E 6 speed manual transmission was swapped in, aftermarket mufflers and x-pipe, euro bi-xenon headlights and carbon fiber interior trim was installed. This is the first picture I took of the car when I picked it up from the previous owner.
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Here are a few pics I took of the car when I got it back home.
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I did some maintenance to the car by installing new spark plugs and new D3 coils. Also I replaced the leaking valve cover gasket and while the valve covers were off, I painted them silver.
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I have replaced all the interior lights to LED lights and was annoyed that there wasn't a driver side foot well light. Come to find out that the HVAC foot well trim panel was cut up where the light needs to mounted to.
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Here is the replacement panel. Thank you MikkiJayne for helping me on this replacement panel.
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While I removed the old panel it looks like it was separated from the vent tube part and I had to pull that part out.
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I had to do some digging to find the wires for the foot well light which I eventually found but had to repair one of the wires.
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Here is the new panel installed.
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Welcome and well done mate! Get some megs nxt metal polish on those exhaust tips, use some 00 wool wire. Should come out a treat. Also are those 17 alloys? 20s will look pukka +++

Very nice! +++

And the best colour for a D2 S8 too :D

Thanks. I'll look into getting those exhaust tips cleaned up. I might end up changing them since they are a little on the large size for my taste. Those are 18" alloys on the car. I'm not sure what brand as they are replicas if I remember correctly. I'm not a fan of big wheels and will be sticking with 18" for now.

I do like the color but I would love to have ming blue with black interior. We did get ming blue here in the States but only with platinum interior.

Here is a sneak peak of the new set of wheels that I bought. These wheels are Neuspeed RSe10. The size of the wheel is 18" x 9" with a 40 offset. It'll be a while before I get these installed as I'm not sure what size tires to use yet.

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Able to go back and work on the car some more and removed the steering wheel that was installed.
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I got the correct S8 steering wheel installed and also bought a new S8 emblem +++.
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What are you going to use the tiptronic buttons for now?

I don't have any plans on using those tip buttons. I just have the black connector tucked out of the way for now.

Very nice looking car! Congrats!
And a manual conversion too +++
I’m jealous, black interior is the best. I have the beige interior and I dont like it. Need to swap black leather in.

Looks great! Where in the US are you located?