S4 suspension clunking

[Tony Escobedo]

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From: "Richard van der Hoff" <quattro at rvanderhoff.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 4:09 PM
To: "mike" <mikemk40 at yahoo.com>
Cc: "Quattro List" <quattro at audifans.com>
Subject: Re: S4 suspension clunking

> Hi again,
>
> Having taken on board the advice here, I've been trying to get hold of a
> kit of links for my car. I've now been told that kits for my car (1998
> B5 S4 - I'm pretty sure they do have different suspension to the S4s
> that came to the US in 2000) don't exist; the supplier said he could
> pull all the parts together, minus the replacement nuts and bolts, but
> this would be £420. He also said that he'd had a lot of sets come in
> which weren't correctly labelled by the manufacturer.
>
> I also asked about new shocks: apparently they're dealer-only.
>
> Has anyone else had any difficulty sourcing suspension parts for this
> era of S4? Mike, I think your car's about the same age as mine - was it
> really a case of just buying a kit off ebay? I'm really wary that I'm
> going to spend several hundred quid and end up with the wrong parts.
>
> Rich
>
>
>
> mike wrote:
>> I second what Huw said, I’ve got a B5 S4 too and had the same issue, 
>> assorted Ebay sellers will provide a full kit of links etc for under £150 
>> and at that price it’s not worth identifying which bit has actually 
>> failed, just change them all.
>>
>> With no lift and just a tree to avoid sunstroke I would have managed both 
>> sides in a day but the bolts that clamps the outer end of the top links 
>> had seized in the tubes, one side came out with a bit of heat and an 
>> impact gun, the other side had to be drilled which took me into the 
>> second day. Well worth giving that area a spray before you start. Also, 
>> one of the bottom link bolts fouls on the body so you need to loosen the 
>> corner of the sub frame and lever it down a touch.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --- On Thu, 18/6/09, Huw Powell <audi at humanspeakers.com> wrote:
>>
>>> From: Huw Powell <audi at humanspeakers.com>
>>> Subject: Re: S4 suspension clunking
>>> To: "Richard van der Hoff" <quattro at rvanderhoff.org.uk>
>>> Cc: "Quattro List" <quattro at audifans.com>
>>> Date: Thursday, 18 June, 2009, 3:31 AM
>>>
>>>
>>> Richard van der Hoff wrote:
>>>> For quite a while now, I've been chasing some clunking
>>> from the front
>>>> suspension on my B5 S4, and I'd appreciate the list's
>>> wisdom on where to
>>>> go with this.
>>> Replace everything.  Seriously.  When my coupe
>>> used to "clunk" at
>>> various times, I slowly started replacing suspension
>>> components.  Which
>>> each replacement, the clunk got quieter.  By the time
>>> I'd done
>>> everything, it was almost impossible to hear, so I think I
>>> fixed it.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Huw Powell
>>>
>>> http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi
>>>
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