{"id":4499,"date":"2019-12-23T18:59:44","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T02:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/?p=4499"},"modified":"2021-03-10T15:04:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T23:04:06","slug":"left-air-suspension-failed-at-131k-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/left-air-suspension-failed-at-131k-miles.html","title":{"rendered":"Left Air Suspension Failed At 131k Miles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/2006-a8l-d3-front-air-suspension-failed-119k-miles.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><button class=\"w3-button w3-green w3-round-xlarge\">@119k miles, the right side air spring bag leaked<\/button><\/a>, now @131k miles, the left side&#8230; I refused to use VCDS to see what&#8217;s wrong because it would list things that don&#8217;t break.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Since it has a slow leak over night, I raised the car to LIFT mode, the pump still worked and brought it to LIFT.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"igallery\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"preview\" title=\"Left Air Spring Bag Leaked\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_suspension_leaks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_suspension_leaks-200x112.jpg\" alt=\"Left Air Spring Bag Leaked\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_suspension_leaks-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_suspension_leaks-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_suspension_leaks-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_suspension_leaks.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0<em>I put it in Jack Mode which would turn off the pump. Wait for a few hours and voila, the LEFT side went down to the ground. FYI, in Jack mode, the automatic leveling system is OFF, therefore, it doesn&#8217;t bring the good side down to the same level with the leaked side. If the Valve Block is good, only the front would be affected with automatic leveling system.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>While waiting for the Bag to come, I left the car in Jack Mode the whole week.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Test the strut with soap water to find the leaks, either top or bottom.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-player\" data-id=\"4pyzyftN3wg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"youtube-player\" data-id=\"kcNCA6hG7ug\"><\/div>\n<ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>, now @131k miles, the left side&#8230; I refused to use VCDS to see what&#8217;s wrong because it would list things that don&#8217;t break. &#8211; Since it has a slow leak over night, I raised the car to LIFT mode, the pump still worked and brought it to LIFT. &#8211;\u00a0I put it in Jack Mode <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/left-air-suspension-failed-at-131k-miles.html\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,124],"tags":[971,969,986,988,972,239,985,984,989,240,248],"class_list":["post-4499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a8-d3","category-suspension","tag-41mm-socket","tag-adaptive-air-suspension","tag-air-compressor","tag-air-leaks","tag-air-spring-bag","tag-air-suspension","tag-e-shock","tag-e-strut","tag-jack-mode","tag-lift-mode","tag-mmi-2g"],"views":1952,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499","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=4499"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5002,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499\/revisions\/5002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}