Engine mounts

Versace · #1 8th February 2020, 05:15 PM

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...??

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...

MikkiJayne · #2 8th February 2020, 05:36 PM

Probably the solenoid in the engine mounts failed so someone replaced it with a resistor (in the bare plug) instead of replacing the mount.

Versace · #3 8th February 2020, 06:04 PM

What about on the passenger side? There is no cable at all

MikkiJayne · #4 8th February 2020, 06:15 PM

Tucked away somewhere?

Versace · #5 8th February 2020, 07:06 PM

I will give it a good look as the car is without bumper and the oil cooler/filter right now...

snapdragon · #6 9th February 2020, 07:20 AM

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.