S4 suspension clunking

[mike]

Rich

Mine is also an early one with solid rear disks on an S plate. 

I can’t remember if the OE shocks are bilsteins or sachs but one or the other should be able to help. Try www.bilstein-shocks.co.uk and sachs (owned by ZF) are based in Northampton 01788 822353.

I’ll try and dig out the place I got my links & arms etc from tomorrow and let you know.

Mike


--- On Wed, 24/6/09, Richard van der Hoff <quattro at rvanderhoff.org.uk> wrote:

> From: Richard van der Hoff <quattro at rvanderhoff.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: S4 suspension clunking
> To: "mike" <mikemk40 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Quattro List" <quattro at audifans.com>
> Date: Wednesday, 24 June, 2009, 9:09 PM
> 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
> >> 
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> >> 
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