Sounds like classic Audi suspension cracking, squeaking and thumping to me, but I’m an idiot. You can always put her up on jack stands and take a crow bar to the joints. If you can move them they’ll make noise in spots and you can pinpoint from there. If you can move them easily they need replacing. Hug the wheel and twist. If it moves side to side, your control arms are shot. Up and down it’s your ball joint and control arms. I think that’s right
I replaced my entire suspension in the front and shocks with bellows in the back and lemme tell ya, I’d rather do my timing system again before I’d touch another bolt on my suspension ever again. The front struts are really tough to compress even with a good set of spring compressors because the caps get in the way of the compressor. A vice, a work table and a level street or garage help and I had none. Now, I go over a speed bump and my front end sounds like a clown horn (weeeka, weeeka, weeeeeka)
Appropriate for the clown driving. I spray PB Blaster all over the suspension it stops for a bit. I think “lube, oil and filter” and that helps everything
My sunroof and body creak a bit now, but I’ve read that’s pretty common in the B8 and B8.5. The worst mistake I made was not replacing the bolts in my sway bar link at the threaded connection to the fork and then I lost one original. I’ve been fighting that stupid sway bar link on the driver side ever since. I finally replaced the bolt with a proper M8X40mmX1.5 pitch bolt, but then it still came out several times and the link broke (not an aluminum link, but a black composite of some sort) even with thread locker. So frustrating!!
I’m the King of Idiots when it comes to not using my thread locker. Most recently my accessory belt started to squeal and I had warning lights like crazy so getting in the car was like the circus started and I’d hit the jackpot. Bad signs, always. My belt tensioner’s 16mm gear wrench release nub is rounded off and slips out of the socket or wrench when I pull it back, so if I’m not slow and careful I get smacked by the spring. When I heard the squeal I got out, popped the hood and found my newly installed, remanufactured alternator I just put in a few weeks ago hanging by the top 2 bolts with my alternator tilted toward the back mmmm of the car. I can only imagine what woulda happened if it came loose. Now, I have new bolts, thread locker and no more belt squeal or an oil pressure light or epc light or reduced power or anything else except the 5 other things still wrong with her (front right brake caliper leaking, driver seat heater is out, need to replace front left and right fenders, my alternator regulator wire has a tiny cut in it and it causes me hell with the battery. I have to work today, so I’m up at 4 AM to work on the car first. Love owning an Audi <sigh>. Check your suspension, change your bolts and washers and use thread locker when you reinstall. She’ll feel like new when done...if you do it right
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