Recent content by daleyarrow

Do you service the car yourself? If you have the knowledge, might be worth doing your own oil, but flushing the system through with some cheaper oil first before filling with the higher spec stuff. That’ll take any and all contaminants out the system as best you can before filling with the...

I used to have a fan whistle at certain speeds coming from the passenger footwell...turns out the last service hadn’t secured the filter box back together properly and it was whistling air out. Might be worth looking at if it’s coming from that area?

I only noticed the lurching on the second time round, probably because I wasn’t worrying so much about it so left it a bit longer and it was on all the time! Get the sensor changed and clear the faults, more than likely find they won’t come back (until the next one goes!)

All of the faulted modules use the wheel speed sensors, one faults and they all do! You’ll probably feel the car lurch when you’re driving too, it mistakes the wheel for not moving quick enough or moving too slow and adds/removes power

Yea that’s what I was going for, I had both the front right and front left go within a year of each other, intermittent at first but they get more regular. You’ll probably find it’s snapped in the wheel hub, you can drill them out if they have, just be sure to go easy so you don’t go too far and...

What’s the text that goes with them? Or was there none?

No pictures...what were the faults on VCDS?

LED’s have a much different resistance compared to a normal bulb, so the on board computer can get a different reading on the circuit and can mistake it for a broken bulb. Try changing back to the originals (if you can be bothered or have time) and see if the fault clears. If it does, then the...

http://igorweb.org/equidec.aspx I think that’s the one I used, click the ‘detailed instructions here’ at the top and it explains what to do and then lists it all.

You won’t need all of the numbers on the bottom 2 thirds of the sticker, they’re just like option codes for the things like accessories etc. It’s just the slightly larger digits that have the engine code etc on. I’m sure there’s a help page where you can type them all in and it explains them...

https://audi.7zap.com/en/rdw/audi+a4+s4+avant+quattro/a4q/2008-636/5/511-511000/ That’s a link to the exploded drawing of the B8 rear suspension, shocks and ARB. It lists the part numbers but you’ll need to know the specifics of your car to get the exact ones. You can find the details on the...

I stand corrected! I should spend less time listening to friends with RS3’s and more time believing what the forums say! A quick google confirms it, A4’s with the longitudinal engine has the Torsen system which is permanent 4 wheel drive with a 60/40 or 40/60 split depending on age. I...

My A4 Quattro gets tested on the 2 wheel system for the last 3 years since I bought it...never died yet. Pretty confident that it’s 2 wheel drive until slippage is detected on the front wheels, when it engages the rear wheel drive to compensate. I think the % of slippage differs from car to car...

FIXED! Turns out the sensor was knackered. I ended up having to drill it out as when I was trying to remove the old sensor the head snapped off, leaving the bulk of the sensor inside the wheel hub. After about an hour of carefully drilling with a 3mm drill bit (wasn't sure what shape the hole...

So yesterday I got distracted by beer and pizza so no work was done, however I did get chance to do some poking around today. Had various issues with the car going into limp mode, but that's due to using a DTUK tuning box that just seems to disagree with the car, so that got removed until I can...