{"id":2015,"date":"2013-10-23T14:33:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T21:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2026-04-13T15:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T22:37:18","slug":"a8l-suspension-pump-retrofit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/a8l-suspension-pump-retrofit.html","title":{"rendered":"A8L Suspension Pump Retrofit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>All A8 D3 Air Pump will fail during its lifetime ~100k+ miles. Wabco is the original company for this pump. Someone found out that<a title=\"Mercedes pump\" href=\"\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/NEW-MERCEDES-BENZ-AIRMATIC-AIR-SUSPENSION-COMPRESSOR-\/300909378794\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Mercedes pump <\/a>is being sold cheaper than the Audi Pump for some reasons. Someone also <a title=\"Mercedes Pump Modified to replace Audi Pump\" href=\"\/\/forums.quattroworld.com\/allroad\/msgs\/34738.phtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">swap the Mercedes pump to run Audi Allroad<\/a> which may also work for Audi A8 D3.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>If the pump is being noisy, <a title=\"replace piston ring\" href=\"https:\/\/shared.com\/xu4c0d6flq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><button class=\"w3-button w3-green w3-round-xlarge\">replacing the piston ring<\/button><\/a> may help and they do sell <a title=\"piston ring kit\" href=\"\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/AUDI-ALLROAD-C5-Q7-A8-WABCO-AIR-SUSPENSION-COMPRESSOR-UNIT-PISTON-REPAIR-FIX-KIT-\/221299497577\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the kit on Ebay<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"igallery\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"preview\" href=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/airpump.jpg\" title=\"Airpump\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2016\" alt=\"airpump\" src=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/airpump-300x239.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/airpump-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/airpump.jpg 482w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><\/ul><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All A8 D3 Air Pump will fail during its lifetime ~100k+ miles. Wabco is the original company for this pump. Someone found out that Mercedes pump is being sold cheaper than the Audi Pump for some reasons. Someone also swap the Mercedes pump to run Audi Allroad which may also work for Audi A8 D3. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/a8l-suspension-pump-retrofit.html\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,124],"tags":[239,383,384],"class_list":["post-2015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a8-d3","category-suspension","tag-air-suspension","tag-suspension-air-pump","tag-wabco"],"views":1093,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5717,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions\/5717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}