{"id":99,"date":"2011-05-02T21:11:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T04:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/?p=99"},"modified":"2018-02-01T14:57:08","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T22:57:08","slug":"time-to-say-goodbye-my-a8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/time-to-say-goodbye-my-a8.html","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Time To Say Goodbye To Our A8 After 7 Wonderful Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>We would never think of a day that we would replace our wonderful A8 for a smaller A4. But it&#8217;s going to be a cabriolet, since the summer is coming and the sun should be bright and warm in Northern CA, nothing better than driving the family in a 4 seater convertible, especially 4-Rings one. The kids love the test drive and the color. Anyhow, last night I took some pictures of our A8, it has always been good to us, now it leaks oil and smokes in stop and go trips (this one I know what the problem is, it can be fixed easily), the oil leaks, I don&#8217;t know where they come from and I don&#8217;t want to bother with it, just top the oil every thousand miles. The breather hose, both of them cracked, one seems to be fixable with hoses and other may have to get the original part from dealer. I don&#8217;t really want to bother with these also. The car just turn 175k miles.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The smoke due to crimped style clamp leaks under pressure from the expansion tank.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"igallery\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a class=\"preview\" title=\"coolant leaks under pressure\" href=\"\/media\/a8ac\/sm_overflowhose.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"coolant leaks under pressure\" alt=\"coolant leaks under pressure\" src=\"\/media\/a8ac\/tn_overflowhose.JPG\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Use a small screw driver to remove the old clamp<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a class=\"preview\" title=\"pry the old crimp type clamp\" href=\"\/media\/a8ac\/sm_a8clamp1.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"pry the old crimp type clamp\" alt=\"pry the old crimp type clamp\" src=\"\/media\/a8ac\/tn_a8clamp1.JPG\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a class=\"preview\" title=\"loosen it and remove\" href=\"\/media\/a8ac\/sm_a8clamp3.JPG\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"loosen it and remove\" alt=\"loosen it and remove\" src=\"\/media\/a8ac\/tn_a8clamp3.JPG\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a class=\"preview\" title=\"old clamp out\" href=\"\/media\/a8ac\/sm_a8clamp4.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"old clamp out\" alt=\"old clamp out\" src=\"\/media\/a8ac\/tn_a8clamp4.JPG\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a class=\"preview\" title=\"new clamps\" href=\"\/media\/a8ac\/sm_a8clamp6.JPG\" ><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"new clamps\" alt=\"new clamps\" src=\"\/media\/a8ac\/tn_a8clamp6.JPG\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a class=\"preview\" title=\"slide the new clamp in\" href=\"\/media\/a8ac\/sm_a8clamp7.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"slide the new clamp in\" alt=\"slide the new clamp in\" src=\"\/media\/a8ac\/tn_a8clamp7.JPG\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a class=\"preview\" title=\"tighten it\" href=\"\/media\/a8ac\/sm_a8clamp9.JPG\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"tighten it\" alt=\"tighten it\" src=\"\/media\/a8ac\/tn_a8clamp9.JPG\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a class=\"preview\" title=\"top up the coolant\" href=\"\/media\/a8ac\/sm_a8clamp10.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"top up the coolant\" alt=\"top up the coolant\" src=\"\/media\/a8ac\/tn_a8clamp10.JPG\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Breather hose cracked<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a class=\"preview\" title=\"breather hose cracked on the driver side\" href=\"\/media\/a8ac\/sm_breatherhose1.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"breather hose cracked on the driver side\" alt=\"breather hose cracked on the driver side\" src=\"\/media\/a8ac\/tn_breatherhose1.JPG\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a class=\"preview\" title=\"the crack\" href=\"\/media\/a8ac\/sm_breatherhose2.JPG\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"the crack\" alt=\"the crack\" src=\"\/media\/a8ac\/tn_breatherhose2.JPG\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>And the car has been garaged every night for last 7 years.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>How stable, smooth and quiet is a 13 year old A8 with 175k miles?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"pictures on may 8\" href=\"\/media\/a8_may8_11\/\">The pictures on mother&#8217;s day<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"quattroworld\" href=\"\/\/forums.quattroworld.com\/a8\/msgs\/48268.phtml\">The car is being sold to a forum member-we&#8217;re glad it&#8217;s going to a good home.<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Cheers,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><\/ul><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We would never think of a day that we would replace our wonderful A8 for a smaller A4. But it&#8217;s going to be a cabriolet, since the summer is coming and the sun should be bright and warm in Northern CA, nothing better than driving the family in a 4 seater convertible, especially 4-Rings one. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/time-to-say-goodbye-my-a8.html\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a8-d2","tag-bye-bye-a8"],"views":1509,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","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=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3516,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/3516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}