{"id":2525,"date":"2016-05-04T12:19:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T19:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/?p=2525"},"modified":"2026-04-13T14:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:54:10","slug":"replace-upper-control-arms-on-a8-d3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/replace-upper-control-arms-on-a8-d3.html","title":{"rendered":"Replace Upper Control Arms On A8 D3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">12\/16\/2017 &#8211;\u00a0<em>Due to the tires worn out on both inner\/outer &#8211; I decided to check the Control Arms since they&#8217;re both Karlyn. Anyhow, it turned out still GOOD. It must be the alignment. I bought the CA from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcpeuro.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><button class=\"w3-button w3-blue w3-round-xlarge\">FCPEuro<\/button><\/a> just in case they failed, returned it with full refund without any problem &#8211; just the cost of UPS to ship back was outrageous&#8230; Great company.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitconverters.net\/energy\/nm-to-ft-lb.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><button class=\"w3-button w3-green w3-round-xlarge\">Convert nm to ft-lb<\/button><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igallery\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Torque Specs in nm NOT ft\/lb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_a8_torque_specs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4622\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_a8_torque_specs-200x112.jpg\" alt=\"A8 Torque Specs\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Tires worn out inner\/outer due to alignment\" href=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_tirewearout_alignment.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3402\" src=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_tirewearout_alignment-200x112.jpg\" alt=\"Tires worn out inner\/outer due to alignment\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_tirewearout_alignment-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_tirewearout_alignment-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_tirewearout_alignment.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"youtube-player\" data-id=\"TWzcoITzNX4\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">2017-02-27 Right &#8211; Upper &#8211; Front Karlyn failed after 9 months.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-player\" data-id=\"xZbFJY3owk8\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">2015-05-30<\/p>\n<p><em>In attempt to eliminate the suspension noise from backing out of the drive way on the cold days, I bought some upper control arms and stabilizer\u00a0<\/em><i>brackets and replace them. This is how I replaced mine. I&#8217;m sure there are many ways to do it. The procedure is very straight forward, except for the bolt that got stuck until we lower the\u00a0shock\u00a0assembly down to clear it. All bolts and nuts use 16mm size wrenches. It&#8217;s also more convenient if we remove the whole strut assembly to replace both upper control arms.<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ggmyfNY-saA?list=PLuRzvc_tEcZTQ8Uv1-vq42l_ROtAdMqgA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"igallery\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"A8 D3 Upper Control Arms New and Old\" href=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tn_control_arms.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2530 size-thumbnail\" src=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tn_control_arms-200x112.jpg\" alt=\"A8 D3 Upper Control Arms New and Old\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tn_control_arms-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tn_control_arms-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tn_control_arms.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a title=\"A8 D3 Loosen Shock Assembly Bolts\" href=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tn_shock_assembly_bolts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2533 size-thumbnail\" src=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tn_shock_assembly_bolts-200x112.jpg\" alt=\"A8 D3 Loosen Shock Assembly Bolts\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tn_shock_assembly_bolts-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tn_shock_assembly_bolts-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tn_shock_assembly_bolts.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"A8 D3 loosen bolt height\" href=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tn_loosen_bolt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2532 size-thumbnail\" src=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tn_loosen_bolt-200x112.jpg\" alt=\"A8 D3 loosen bolt height\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tn_loosen_bolt-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tn_loosen_bolt-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tn_loosen_bolt.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a title=\"A8 D3 Stabilizer Bracket orientation\" href=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tn_bracket.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2531 size-thumbnail\" src=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tn_bracket-200x112.jpg\" alt=\"A8 D3 Stabilizer Bracket orientation\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tn_bracket-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tn_bracket-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tn_bracket.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Driver Side<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-player\" data-id=\"Puar6dTloCE\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Passenger Side<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-player\" data-id=\"2PSkQPmhlq8\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"youtube-player\" data-id=\"TaH8TX8VKiw\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>All components were bought from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcpeuro.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><button class=\"w3-button w3-green w3-round-xlarge\">FCPEuro<\/button><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><\/ul><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12\/16\/2017 &#8211;\u00a0Due to the tires worn out on both inner\/outer &#8211; I decided to check the Control Arms since they&#8217;re both Karlyn. Anyhow, it turned out still GOOD. It must be the alignment. I bought the CA from just in case they failed, returned it with full refund without any problem &#8211; just the cost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/replace-upper-control-arms-on-a8-d3.html\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,124],"tags":[513,245,1004,658,1003,514,1035,1005],"class_list":["post-2525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a8-d3","category-suspension","tag-a8-d3-upper-control-arms","tag-a8l","tag-control-arm","tag-noise-while-turning-at-low-speed","tag-noisy-suspension","tag-suspension","tag-torque-specs","tag-upper"],"views":5424,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525","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=2525"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5699,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions\/5699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}