Power Steering hose help?
 

Noticed today the bottom power steering pipe has a small leak in it which is dripping in the engine bay, i believe it is the supply line pipe.

Can anyone help with a part number? :Confused:

Think i have tracked it down on ebay below but want to fit a new pipe rather than one off a 1998 car

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Audi-A8-D2...3D131894268086

Thanks all +++

That hose comes complete with cooling pipe if you buy new.

4d0 422 885 c

4d0 422 885 d depending on engine

Many thanks Del for the quick response will get it sorted now +++

Just to add there are no more hoses available for our cars checked with my garage and zero of these parts now available from audi germany etc, so i got a hose from our sponsors +++

Had all my PS hoses replaced just last year with brand new hoses, for the princely sum of £700 (ex labour):
http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/showthread.php?t=11336

It does seem to be that, over the last year or two, a lot more parts have become 'no longer available' for these cars.

With the PS hoses at least, I suppose it should be possible to have new ones custom made, assuming they use standard couplings/ends.

They don't :( Tried that.

The pressure hose has a rather fancy fitting at the pump end with a small nozzle inside it leading to a 3mm nylon tube inside the main hose. When Mike & I were looking at it I think we concluded it was constant pressure, variable flow. Further research suggests it also has a noise reduction role. I do know that without it the pump whines constantly as I originally replaced mine with a simple piece of 10mm hydraulic hose after seeing the price of a new OE hose.

After 6 months of over-assisted noisy steering I gave up and bought a good used hose from our sponsors which I de-rusted and painted, and paired that with a new old stock return hose which I found on ebay. No more whine, and much better weigh to the steering.

I daresay it will be possible to contrive something similar when there are no more new or used hoses left but its going to be quite complicated to do.

:( maybe hoses off another model would work? Audi C5

dissapointing news indeed!