'99 A8 fuel pump

[Louis-Alain Richard]

Many years ago, our Saab 9-5 did the dead fuel pump trick... I was out of
town so I bit the bullet (700$ assembly OEM) and changed the pump myself
with just hand tools in a VW parking lot. Back at home, I opened that
assembly and found that the fuel pump only was a Walbro very generic part...
sold for less than 120$. 

Now, it's common practice : http://www.newsemantics.com/saab/ 

Maybe you can pull that pump assembly and try to find a suitable cheaper
replacement ? You don't have much to loose...

Louis-Alain


> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : quattro-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com] De
> la part de dgraber460 at aol.com
> Envoyé : 7 novembre 2011 18:45
> À : bhowell at rmi.net; hackl911 at comcast.net; seiche at shadetreesoftware.com;
> audionly at gmail.com
> Cc : quattro at audifans.com
> Objet : '99 A8 fuel pump
> 
> 
> I have a friend that has been quoted $900 plus labor for a fuel pump for
> his 99 A8. The car has ~180k miles and he is thinking about just dumping
> it.
> I would like to at least help him try to sell a _running_ car. Is there
> anything exotic about these compared to the other large chassis cars.
> What's so super secret, super duper, super expensive on these baby's?
> TIA
> 
> 
> Dennis
> Denver
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