This week we decided to install an Akrapovic exhaust on an Audi RS3 hatchback. The supplier in Dubai had one in stock — but for the sedan version.

We figured: why wait 2–3 weeks for the hatchback system when we could try adapting the sedan version? Our idea was simple: — fit the system, — trim the longer pipes made for the sedan, — and make it work for the hatchback.

💡 However, during installation we quickly realized that the exhaust geometry on the sedan is slightly different from the hatch. It’s subtle, but just enough to make proper installation impossible. The hangers, bends, and pipe routes are not identical.

📌 So for anyone thinking the sedan and hatch RS3 exhausts are interchangeable — unfortunately, they’re not. You can’t fit the sedan system on a hatchback without major modification.

We tried. It didn’t work.