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Hello community,
I finally acquired a D3, 4.2 40V BFM in September last year, but have not been driving with it very much as my daily beater ist a D2 4.2 40V... After doing some maintainance on it (broken water pump on the oil cooler) I was asking myself why there are no connectors on the "electric" engine mounts. Thus the engine runs smooth as silk, no codes in VCDS...?? :Confused: But a cable attached to the aluminium on the mount, that ends wit a blank connector... The same thing on the passengers side (LHD) but without any cable even close to the mount... Picture in attachment... |
Probably the solenoid in the engine mounts failed so someone replaced it with a resistor (in the bare plug) instead of replacing the mount.
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What about on the passenger side? There is no cable at all :Confused:
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Tucked away somewhere?
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I will give it a good look as the car is without bumper and the oil cooler/filter right now...
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These mounts all failed very quickly (couple of years) and there is/was an Audi TSB to replace them with terminators. What year is the car out of interest, as I'm not sure this was a dealer-fit workaround and/or production change.
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The car is a 2004. It seems like it was replaced at Audi, as everything looks so original, the connector with the resistor has an Audi sticker on it :hammer: And an LED lamp inside...
But the engine runs seamles, smooth and no vibrations. I will replace them anyway but they are so expensive :mad: We have found the other cable too! |
I had an 04 D3 and from memory these hydraulic mounts failed when the car was about 6 years old. (Failed meaning they threw an error code on diagnostics when car was scanned. As they were crazy money and could only be got new at the time, I decided against replacing at the time.
I then kept the car for several more years and never had any issue with vibration or similar. I’d leave them to be honest. |
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The FL D2's have similar mounts.
As they're hydraulic, I just thought the electrics were a sensor for when the mount failed? I didn't think they were or are in any way "active"... |
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