{"id":2471,"date":"2015-05-22T09:21:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T16:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/?p=2471"},"modified":"2026-04-13T15:27:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T22:27:33","slug":"replace-a8l-d3-hood-shocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/replace-a8l-d3-hood-shocks.html","title":{"rendered":"Replace A8L D3 Hood Shocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hood slammed down on me the other day \u00a0due to weak shocks support. I found Strong Arm 6294 on Amazon $47 for 2 with free shipping and I got them. They work quite well. The procedure is very simple, just a little screw driver to release the spring lock and remove the ends from the ball connectors. To place the new one, just snap them on. The best is to have a support bar, just in case if you do it by yourself, a helper would be great.<\/p>\n<div class=\"igallery\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/strongarm_shocks.jpg\" title=\"A8 D3 Strong Arm Hood shocks\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2472\" src=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/strongarm_shocks-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"A8 D3 Strong Arm Hood shocks\" width=\"211\" height=\"119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/strongarm_shocks-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/strongarm_shocks.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/hood_shock.jpg\" title=\"A8 D3 Hood Shocks Installed\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2473\" src=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/hood_shock-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"A8 D3 Hood Shocks Installed\" width=\"211\" height=\"119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/hood_shock-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/hood_shock.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"youtube-player\" data-id=\"oV7bjw5wugQ\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><\/ul><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hood slammed down on me the other day \u00a0due to weak shocks support. I found Strong Arm 6294 on Amazon $47 for 2 with free shipping and I got them. They work quite well. The procedure is very simple, just a little screw driver to release the spring lock and remove the ends from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/replace-a8l-d3-hood-shocks.html\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[416,506,507],"class_list":["post-2471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a8-d3","tag-a8l-d3","tag-hood-shocks","tag-strong-arm-hood-shocks"],"views":722,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471","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=2471"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5712,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions\/5712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}