ok so i know it has been asked and i just searched for 30 min. i am still confused. Well its finally getting warm and my car is squeaking so bad i really can't stand it. its like metal and metal noise but i can't really describe it. That is the lower control arms isn't it. what does a bad wheel bearing sound like? I would get a video of the noise but have no cammera at the moment. I live in rockford IL so i would take it somewhere to see whats wrong but the dealer is a obvious no and i don't know of a audi shop around me there is Renn Hart near chicago but that is a lil far.

 

If its a controle arm, you should be able to make th noise in your driveway by bouncing the car A bad wheel bearing sounds like really bad out of wack tires.

 

the squeaking sounds more like upper control arms I think. wheel bearings make a squealing noise when they're bad.

 

ohh yea in my driveway when i get in and out of my car is squeaks and its had gotten really bad. yea i tiried boucing up and down and it squeak ALOT sooo that is control arms. Now what is more common upper or lower.

 

upper.

 

Upper all day long, i hardly ever replace lower links however i change upper links for squeaks on a daily basis. My s4 did it for a while until i almost ripped of my own hair.

 

ok soo upper is more common. well then is there a good test to be for sure it the upper or am i stuck taking it to someone and the only audi servicer is the dealer near me i would have to drive to almost chicago to go to a audi shop to diagnose the problem!!!

*now it squeaks when i turn the wheel left and right more when i turn it left wow this is drving me crazy*

 

DIY SON!!!

I don't know your year / mileage, but if you have at least one that has gone bad, a few of your others may not be far behind. When I got one bad control arm, I bought and replaced all eight control arms and sway bar links. It seems expensive, but think about this: If you pay some guy to change a control arm or two and then 3 months later you are back in the same spot with all this squeeking, you are going to have to pay him again to rip it all apart. Uppers are more of a pain to do. You def don't want to pay double labor.

All 8 control arms and sway bar links and tie rod ends will cost you $560 +shipping. Few hundred maybe for install. $100 for an alignment if you DIY but included in install price if you have someone do it. I did mine myself and it was a pain but only because my car lived its whole life in the salty north. If everything hadn't rusted so bad it seized, it would have been a relatively easy install.

 

DIY was my plan but the right side control arms look new like they were already replaced maybe by the last owner. maybe under that bad control arm "recall". so i dont wanna replace them all but to replace just one side upper and lower it cost the same as a full 8 arm kit so if im going to replace all the left side ones then i will by a kit and have the passenger side ones just in case. but i really just want to replace jus the bad control arm or w.e the bad part is since im a little tight with money at the moment

 

Suck it up and get this kit: http://getcoolparts.com/epcksoap.epc...d=getcoolparts

In the long run you will have saved $$ and the quality is way better than OEM or whatever Audi would have replaced under any recall.
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