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One of the biggest concerns we have when working on our cars at home is ordering every part we need for the job and worrying if we picked the correct parts. Making an easy mistake like that slows us down and keeps our cars out of commission for longer than we want. That�s why at ECS Tuning, we have put together full Assembled By ECS kits for your car that comes with everything you need from the quality manufacturers you trust to tackle that service project stress-free.

One of the biggest concerns we have when working on our cars at home is ordering every part we need for the job and worrying if we picked the correct parts. Making an easy mistake like that slows us down and keeps our cars out of commission for longer than we want. That�s why at ECS Tuning, we have put together full Assembled By ECS kits for your car that comes with everything you need from the quality manufacturers you trust to tackle that service project stress-free.

One of the biggest concerns we have when working on our cars at home is ordering every part we need for the job and worrying if we picked the correct parts. Making an easy mistake like that slows us down and keeps our cars out of commission for longer than we want. That�s why at ECS Tuning, we have put together full Assembled By ECS kits for your car that comes with everything you need from the quality manufacturers you trust to tackle that service project stress-free.

One of the biggest concerns we have when working on our cars at home is ordering every part we need for the job and worrying if we picked the correct parts. Making an easy mistake like that slows us down and keeps our cars out of commission for longer than we want. That�s why at ECS Tuning, we have put together full Assembled By ECS kits for your car that comes with everything you need from the quality manufacturers you trust to tackle that service project stress-free.

Lowering your MK7.5 GTI, R, or MK7 Jetta makes it look more aggressive, handle better, and improves your overall driving experience. Until you hit a road hazard and your oil pan decides it doesn�t like being a single piece. Protect your Volkswagen with our redesigned Street Shield for your 7-spd DQ381 MK7.5 GTI/R or MK7 Jetta and never worry about bridge connections, debris, or whatever else might come between the ground and your oil pan again.

Modern luxury vehicles generally come equipped with safety and convenience features. Most notably of which are blind spot indicators on the mirrors and heating elements in the housings. We are proud to offer an upgraded set of mirrors with blind spot indicators and defrosters so you can see clearly for lane changes and never have a surprised 'honk' from merging on top of someone too inconsiderate to stay out of your blind spot! Start making the most of your European performance car with ECS Heated Blind Spot Mirrors for your VW and enjoy the finer side of luxury German motoring.

The primary concern for your drivetrain when making significant power additions to your vehicle is premature wear or failure of your clutch - your factory clutch was designed within tolerances that added power simply surpass. ECS tuning has developed an outstanding, perfectly-matched Flywheel and Clutch Kit that not only staves off premature clutch wear but reduces flywheel weight for improved acceleration and throttle response.

The primary concern for your drivetrain when making significant power additions to your vehicle is premature wear or failure of your clutch - your factory clutch was designed within tolerances that added power simply surpass. ECS tuning has developed an outstanding, perfectly-matched Flywheel and Clutch Kit that not only staves off premature clutch wear but reduces flywheel weight for improved acceleration and throttle response.

At ECS Tuning, our goal is to be the preferred source of Genuine Parts for all Volkswagen owners. We are Volkswagen enthusiasts to the core, which means we know the important role your Volkswagen plays in your life. Genuine Volkswagen Products ensure that your lifestyle is thoroughly Volkswagen and will continue with a theme of quality for you and your car.

Looking for the most attractive and adjustable tip on the market? Look no further than our ECS Swivel Exhaust Tips! Featuring a unique swivel collar design that allows the tip to be adjusted in any direction to achieve that perfect fitment. Simply adjust the tip to your desired position and tighten the hex bolt to 14 ft-lbs (19 Nm) and the tip will stay where positioned.

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Our ECS Tuning replacement harness connectors include all of the necessary pins and wire seals for a complete harness repair. Whether you have broken harness connector or a you need a complete wiring repair, ECS has you covered with the correct parts you need at a price that is affordable compared to OEM. Each connector includes an additional terminal just in case one becomes lost or damaged during your install process. Please reference original part number from existing connector to confirm fitment, prior to ordering

Our Resonator Delete X-Pipe Kit removes the heavy and restrictive factory resonator assembly on your 2011 - 2017 Volkswagen Touareg 3.6L VR6 and replaces it with our high flow, lighter weight, straight-through exhaust section. This adds a deeper exhaust note and brings out the "Wookie growl" in a simple, cost effective way without replacing the entire exhaust system. The resonator delete creates a slight increase in exhaust growl and creates a more exhilarating driving experience, without adding significant drone at cruising speeds.

Working on your own car is fun, but that degree of fun depends on how easy you make that work for yourself. With the right tools, you arm yourself with the ability to tackle whatever job is in front of you with ease and confidence. We created Schwaben Tools & carry numerous other tool brands specifically for enthusiasts like you so you'll never need to worry about doing something the wrong way. We have more than just the average hand tools, too. ECS Tool of the Week highlights specialty tools and equipment designed to help you complete any job your European car might require. From lifting equipment and garage organization to fluid service tools and specialty sockets and more, each ECS Tool of the Week will show you just what you need to handle DIYs that require more than the basic set of wrenches and sockets.

For many, driving a stick shift is more than just a rite of passage: it represents an understanding that some things are just better left to the driver and an unwillingness to relinquish any control over the driving experience. We feel the most connected to our cars when we change gears, so the first place to make that connection even stronger is right there on the shifter.  Our brand new Weighted Shift Knobs for your Audi or VW manual transmission are designed with the sentiments of connection, engagement, and satisfaction placed at the forefront of their development.

ECS decided that just because your car doesn't have a third pedal you shouldn't have to be stuck with the factory shift knob. This shift knob is made of forged carbon to give it a unique look compared to the other non three pedal shift knobs on the market. Installation is simple and utilizes set screws so you can maintain your factory shifter release mechanism. Instead of pressing the button on the factory knob you lift up on the collar on the bottom of the knob to put the vehicle into gear. For installation you simply to remove your shift surround and remove the old shift knob then use the supplied pieces in the kit to maintain your shift release mechanism functionality.

Upgrade the exterior styling on your Volkswagen MK5 GTI or MK5 R32 with the ECS Tuning Gloss Black Hatch Spoiler Extension. Our Hatch Spoiler was engineered in-house and designed to follow the curves and lines of the body to offer a more aggressive look that matches the factory appeal of your MK5. Crafted from high quality vacuum formed gloss black ABS polymer that is enhanced with UV-stabilizer to achieve its world class appearance and durability while providing a sporty style that's sure to set your vehicle apart from the rest. Installs atop the factory hatch spoiler with no drilling, cutting or any permanent modifications.

Protect your MK8 investment whether you're staying stock or dropping it to the ground with ECS Street Shields! Coverage from front to back with our front skid plate, trans tunnel street shield, and fuel tank plate create a comprehensive system of defense between your underbody and any road hazards you might encounter. Keep your fluids where they belong with these perfectly-fitting protective skid plates designed right here in-house at ECS Tuning.

It’s no secret that Volkswagen's suffer from weak, failure prone rubber control arm bushings. The stock rubber bushings are designed to allow significant movement of the front wheels and to absorb road impacts. This compliant design maximizes daily driving comfort and helps add to the “luxury” feeling of your VW, but it also contributes to the numb, disconnected feeling that many enthusiasts complain about with modern cars. Not only is the OEM design far from ideal for the street or racing enthusiast that is looking for optimal handling and braking performance, the constant twisting and deflection required of the rubber bushing often causes premature failure, resulting in degraded handling, wheel shimmy, delayed turn-in response, delayed braking response, unwanted alignment change, and poor tire wear.  For the rest of us who enjoy seeing what our car is made of, these types of bushing simply won’t cut it.  Introducing the new ECS Tuning Front Control Arm Monoball Bushings! The ECS Engineering team set out to design a solution that offers a far superior bushing when compared to OEM, requiring no modification and offering nearly instantaneous cornering, accelerating and decelerating response for the absolute best road feel and driving experience possible. Our monoball bushings utilize a serviceable spherical bearing for exceptional quality and durability. A CNC machined Delrin hex sleeve insert provides a precision fit between the control arm and bearing. By utilizing a greaseable spherical bearing, ECS achieved the ultimate in terms of low friction no bind suspension travel with no unwanted deflection, providing exceptional cornering response, and prompt acceleration and deceleration feedback; all while maintaining exceptional comfort and durability levels making these an excellent no compromise upgrade even for a street car.  These control arm monoball bushings are a must have for any track car, but are also completely street-able and are a great upgrade for any enthusiast that enjoys spirited driving. 

It’s no secret that Volkswagen's suffer from weak, failure prone rubber trailing arm bushings. The stock rubber bushings are designed to allow significant movement of the rear wheels and to absorb road impacts. This compliant design maximizes daily driving comfort and helps add to the “luxury” feeling of your VW, but it also contributes to the numb, disconnected feeling that many enthusiasts complain about with modern cars. Not only is the OEM design far from ideal for the street or racing enthusiast that is looking for optimal handling and braking performance, the constant twisting and deflection required of the rubber bushing often causes premature failure, resulting in degraded handling, wheel shimmy, delayed turn-in response, delayed braking response, unwanted alignment change, and poor tire wear. For the rest of us who enjoy seeing what our car is made of, these types of bushing simply won’t cut it. Introducing the new ECS Tuning Rear Trailing Arm Monoball Bushings! The ECS Engineering team set out to design a solution that offers a far superior bushing when compared to OEM, requiring no modification and offering nearly instantaneous cornering, accelerating and decelerating response for the absolute best road feel and driving experience possible. Our monoball bushings utilize a sealed OEM Mercedes-Benz ball joint for exceptional quality and durability. The bearing assembly is precision CNC machined from 6061-T6 anodized aluminum and features a knurled OD to ensure a perfect press fit and the longest lasting component life possible. By utilizing a sealed ball joint, ECS achieved the ultimate in terms of low friction no bind suspension travel with no unwanted deflection, providing exceptional cornering response, and prompt acceleration and deceleration feedback; all while maintaining exceptional comfort and durability levels making these an excellent no compromise upgrade even for a street car. These trailing arm monoball bushings are a must have for any track car, but are also completely street-able and are a great upgrade for any enthusiast that enjoys spirited driving.

ECS Tuning is proud to offer an upgrade to not only enhance your driving experience but also to add a sporty appearance to your interior. Our engineers worked meticulously to create an exact-fit and easy to install extension for the OEM paddle shifters that increases the size of the paddle without compromising feel and operation. Made of a rigid injection molded polymer, our paddle shifter extensions are offered in flat black, satin chrome, or gloss black to perfectly compliment your Volkswagen's interior with an OE+ feel. ECS Tuning's paddle shifter extensions simply adhere to the factory paddle shifters for a quick and straight forward upgrade to your interior.

APR Ignition Coils are designed to be a direct plug-&-play upgrade to factory coils, & provide greater energy output, ensuring a stronger & more consistent spark. The commonplace replacement of factory ignition coils with those taken from higher output Audi RS models, such as the 2.5T, is popularly believed to provide greater energy output. However, testing proves that they are no more powerful than the factory coils that are found on 1.8T and 2.0T engines. APR Ignition Coils increase energy output by 10%. They are a direct upgrade or replacement, & come with the coveted red housing.

Why settle for stock? Choose the area of your car that looks like it could use some excitement and pick up where the factory left off. Looking to add an aggressive or subtle sleek appearance to your MK4, we’ve got you covered with several of our body styling products. Get your MK4 ready for show season with ECS.

HPA Motorsports provides no-compromise, proven, and tested performance parts for your VW or Audi. With their roots in building competitive cars for track use, HPA continuously develops parts for their race applications in-house in their CNC shop and provide their tested components to you to improve the driving dynamics of your European performance car.

Our ECS Tuning in-house engineered billet aluminum shift knobs have been carefully designed and tested to bring you one of the highest quality and greatest interior enhancements available. Our shift knobs will enhance the shifting experience and pairs extremely well with our short shift kits to give a full shifter makeover! OEM shift knobs have an average weight of 95g; the substantially heavier weight of our ECS Tuning shift knob will smooth out shifts resulting in faster engagement and a much better feel.

Simple, cost-effective, and quite enjoyable all describe our new Muffler Delete Kit for your Jetta 1.4T. Give your MK7 Jetta the exhaust note it deserves with our straight-through design that eliminates the heavy and restrictive factory muffler and replaces it with our high-flowing unit for a more aggressive tone.

When you make modifications to your MK5 or MK6, the ideal situation is that those modifications serve more than one purpose. We all love to look and sound good in our VWs, but functionality is equally important. Our new Resonator Delete Pipe for your MK5 or MK6 GTI offers weight savings, less restriction, and a throaty exhaust note that allows you to experience more turbo noise and none of the highway drone associated with other exhaust modifications.

The MK7.5 GTI brings edgier style to the already angular design language of this generation, but there is still room for improvement. Our new Gloss Black Rear Diffuser lets you add an even more aggressive element to your hot hatchback with an attractive, yet affordable, visual upgrade designed right here at ECS for the perfect look you’ve been chasing.

Finally, a visual upgrade for your MK7.5 Golf R that helps accentuate its underlying performance. The new ECS Gloss Black Rear Diffuser adds a motorsport-inspired element to the rear of your hot hatchback for a dramatic change in attitude. This in-house designed diffuser directly replaces the OE diffuser with perfect fitment for seamless integration. Give your MK7.5 Golf R the aggressive improvement it deserves with our new diffuser designed for any budget.

After nearly half a decade of in-house engineering, testing and retesting of multiple iterations of prototypes, across a wide range of modified vehicles, we are excited to give you our best clutch kit yet! Our kit is engineered to reliably hold up to 450 ft/lbs of crank torque and feature specifically selected components for performance and daily driving styles, while retaining easy commuting characteristics and enthusiast-minded control and feedback!