Great guide. For the S3: Some steps I found weren’t necessary (maybe there’s more clearance on the S3 vs A3?). I didn’t need to remove the drive shaft nor split the ball joint to wishbone connection, just pushed the arm down to get clearance. On the downside, the wishbone and hub are aluminium alloy so the strut pinch bolt was seized SOLID and needed a blowtorch to help it come out (hammering alone just wasn’t working).
Question for you. The pinch bolt holding the shock absorber to the knuckle have a habit of seizing and breaking most of the time. Its doeable to leave the shock in the knuckle if just changing the spring isnt it and just use manual pair of spring compressors. Not ideal but better than having to drill a broken pinch bolt out. What you reckon ?
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Every. Single. Bolt. Completely over-torqued. This is why you shouldn't use an impact to install hardware. Where is the missing lug bolt? Would have been easy enough to replace. This is why I don't trust anyone. Piss poor maintenance practices.
Only had 4 lug bolts to start with, hoping they corrected that with customer later. Agree with the over torqued bolts as they already tightened them hard with impact
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Great guide. For the S3: Some steps I found weren’t necessary (maybe there’s more clearance on the S3 vs A3?). I didn’t need to remove the drive shaft nor split the ball joint to wishbone connection, just pushed the arm down to get clearance. On the downside, the wishbone and hub are aluminium alloy so the strut pinch bolt was seized SOLID and needed a blowtorch to help it come out (hammering alone just wasn’t working).
Thank you for sharing your experience, it will be very useful information for us and our viewers.
Brilliant video and guide. Very professionally done. Even gave the torque settings. Love it 😍
Excellent video a perfectly executed spring change, complete with torque settings, super job.
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Fantastic video amazingly educating and considering there’s no commentary I’m surprised I got it so quick and was a comfort to watch
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Question for you. The pinch bolt holding the shock absorber to the knuckle have a habit of seizing and breaking most of the time. Its doeable to leave the shock in the knuckle if just changing the spring isnt it and just use manual pair of spring compressors. Not ideal but better than having to drill a broken pinch bolt out. What you reckon ?
Hi! Thank you for sharing your experience, it will be very useful information for us and our viewers.
Another great vidio for my car as well 👍👍👍👍
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How long did it take from start to finish after taking the wheel off?
Great video
This is what my, my brother, my dad, my friend call a mechanic music. 😎🤠👨🔧🛠️. Keep Up The good work 👍.
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how many millimeters are the springs?
You need a wheel alignment after this?
Yes, it is recommended to make a wheel alignment adjustment after this replacement.
In the a1 the spring is not strong enough to take the weight mine has broke up
What’s a drive socket number 24?
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Thats a pain in the a** design. got to get out a lot of things before you can remove those shocks lol
So to take the strut nut off its h6 and 21mm but to put it back together it's h7 and 21mm... that makes no sense
Thanks for the clarification. Yes, there is an error in the video.
Music is far to loud
And not a single torque spec was mentioned xD
Edit: Well, at least a couple of very basic ones in the end lol
If you look to the end, you can see that the upper right corner shows the torque specifications.
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If you look to the end, you can see that the upper right corner shows the torque specifications.
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Every. Single. Bolt. Completely over-torqued. This is why you shouldn't use an impact to install hardware. Where is the missing lug bolt? Would have been easy enough to replace. This is why I don't trust anyone. Piss poor maintenance practices.
Only had 4 lug bolts to start with, hoping they corrected that with customer later. Agree with the over torqued bolts as they already tightened them hard with impact