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Yay!
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Sounds expensive on man-hours; did you manage to get a metal pipe or just a new OEM plastic one?
Edit: just spotted that you didn't have time to get a metal one.
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Yes expensive on man hours but not an easy job, all day monday on the workshop ramp and part of tuesday morning, as it went in earlier than i expected
No time to order metal replacement pipe, but by the sounds of it the old one was still ok, it was the seals that had failed on mine, to be safe everything changed out
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The metal ones have a double seal whereas, by implication, the plastic one only has single.
Hopefully yours will be good for a long time now.
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Well its lasted this long.. heres to another 15yrs
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Thanks for your help , have you tackled this job yourself?
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Also on a side note ordered a new replacement drivers side light unit, where the lock goes into it, as my old one had a crack through it, amazing how clear a new light lense is compared with the old unit so thats on as well ticking bits off slowly...
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Only with the engine out of the car! Its quite a lot easier like that
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Great news on the repair RS6. Had that done on my old A8 QS. Very expensive labour costs for a small part
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barzya8 great to hear you have also had some success fixing problems, it seems we have both had issues then recently, that was lucky turn up with the date on the rad, hopefully we can both get back to enjoying our cars again now for a bit longer
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