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Old 11th April 2018, 06:20 PM
HPsauce HPsauce is offline
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Default Swarf in Power Steering circuit!

I posted some comments in this thread, starting at post #26: http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/showthrea...t=13934&page=3

My son's Audi S4 Avant had power steering problems, details of which I'm not 100% sure of.
He took it to Chingford Audi (this MAY or may not turn into a name-and-shame) who charged him a LOT of money (about £2K I think) to "fix" it. Again, no details but I can get them.

Just a few days later it failed, loss of power assistance. They blame "air" pointing to some minor comment on the invoice about bringing it back after 3 weeks or so to be "checked".
(As noted in the other thread the system is probably self-bleeding so this is twaddle)

A few more days after they "fixed" it it failed again!
On investigation Audi Chingford now say this was down to "swarf" and they have fixed it.

My son has (as I just discovered talking to him) no idea what swarf is.
So I told him. Not happy, he thought it was just grubby dirt that you could clean off with Swarfega!

To my mind there could be damage anywhere now, so the whole PAS system needs ripping out and replacing with totally new. What do you good people think?

He also has incurred significant expense in getting the car recovered twice plus lots of inconvenience.
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2003 D2 FL S8. Irish Green Pearl/Beige. Solar sunroof, auto-dim mirrors, electric rear seat functions, ski hatch retrofit; extended leather. Aftermarket DVB-T, reversing camera and full XCarlink (Bluetooth etc.).
2016 Volvo V40 T5 Cross Country (4WD) with ALL the toys including adaptive cruise etc. etc. Osmium Grey with Blonde/Charcoal leather interior. Polestar performance "optimisation". (A much rarer model than a D2 S8 by the way!) Oh, and a brand new engine at just under 30,000 miles on the factory one!
Finally: gone, but not forgotten.....
1998 D2 PF S8. AgateGrey/Platinum. Every option (I think) except electric rear seats, tiptronic steering wheel, ski hatch, towbar & dimming door mirrors.
e.g. Cruise control, NavPlus/TV, Bose, GSM, Xenons, Solar roof, Parking sensors, Alcantara/leather everywhere of course. (internal dimming mirror added later)
1998 (very early) Ford Focus 1.8 Zetec; ABS/TCS, Heated screen/mirrors, Aircon, Auto-dim mirror, Leather, Trip computer, Cruise control, OEM Ford SatNav with CD changer.
And before that a lot of Rover 800s, a few oddities, a lovely Triumph Dolomite 1850HL with Overdrive and way back in my schooldays an Austin Seven aka Mini 850!
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