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Originally Posted by RS6
Emailed milltek last night asking if they could or would be able to reproduce a milltek backbox again for the audi a8/s8 d2 as they are no longer in production interestingly they came back with this answer.
Hi
Thank you for your enquiry.
As stated we have now discontinued this system and we wouldn’t be able to produce a single or couple of systems as the cost to swap the production lines over for a small quantity is too high.
We still have the jigs and are able to produce them but we wouldn’t look to produce in quantities less than 20.
Kind regards
Milltek Sport Ltd
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Realistically, this isn't going to happen, for the following reasons:
(1) You'd need 20
firm commitments from active D2 owners on here - assuming you're not also enlisting significant numbers of additional D2 owners elsewhere...
(2) Of a total of around 110 (optimistically..) active members listed on here, at a rough guess no more than 60 of those are D2 owners.
(3) To reach your total therefore, one third of those would need to:
a) Be interested,
b) Be currently (or in the near future...) needing a replacement,
c) Have the spare funds available to spare for this - including an up-front deposit that Milltek would probably ask for,
d) Be willing to commit to payment of this.
There's virtually no chance of this happening, so I think this idea is a non-starter.
I think a far better option is to do one of the following:
(a) Wait for a "spare' used Milltek to come free - unlikely, but still more likely than this plan...
(b) Get someone else to custom make one - likely to be far cheaper, and more tailored to individual needs,
(c) Use Amar's front-end approach to get a similar sonic fix.
I'll go for (a) or (b), and some of the posts on here probably reflect the reality of doing this as well, from what I've seen
