Well, our A8 has 159k miles now, and the freon doesn’t hold any more, every year @ summer time, we have to take it to the shop to get freon charge and each time it’s $70.00. Now we do it at home for $4.00. The only way that you can charge Freon to any car …
FRONT BRAKE ROTORS & PADS 1998 A8 4.2L Tools needed: 17mm socket for wheel lugs, 18mm socket for caliper frame, 7mm hex, screw driver, extension 3/8 or ½, long nose pliers, brake piston retract tool.- Remove wheel lugs covers. – Open the wheel lugs a few turns. – Jack up the car …
We’ve had the A8 for almost 4 years and added 40k miles, it’s been the most comfortable & reliable car we’ve ever had (and we have never taken it to the dealers or shops for anything except alignment & new tires). According to the ex-owner records, the spark plugs are over 60k miles old. With …
Most old Audis have the CC working intermittenly, our 98 A8 also has the problem, we haven’t had time to check into it since we don’t use it so often. We accumulated all the links to websites that we stumbled into for our references. Vacuum diagram Resoldering caps on controller Resoldering caps on controller2 Resoldering …
When the car is over 100k miles, running hot or low oil for a while, the oil cooler plastic coolant pipe would break and leaks slowly under pressure (when the car turned of after reaching operating temperature). The leaks appear to be from the water pump but it’s not, it’s dripping from behind the alternator …
