My 03 TT quattro has a nasty metallic creaking sound coming from the rear end when I turn or go up uneven pavement. The local Audi Dealership (Stevens Creek Audi San Jose) said it would be around 650 bucks to fix. Sounds way too high.

 

yeah, get the bushings and do it yourself.

 

I get pissed more and more when I see these posts. One, because the dealers are absolutely killing people with these ridiculous job quotes, and two because most of the repairs I see listed are simple and if you take half a minute to look at the car or the DIYs you'll see that it's not even necessary to call the dealer. Order the part from a site vendor and do the job at home.

 

lol, I spay my gf's Jetta bushing once a month with just some wd-40 until I decided to remove them and regrease.

 

That's actually not a bad preventative maintenance. May not fully do the trick but it should help a little at least.

 

Except your A4 is nothing like a TT....... a TT sway bar isn't complicated its just a extreme time consuming pain in the ***.

650.00 seems a little high. But probably includes 1.0 hour (115.00) diagnosis which starts to makes more sense.

 

It's still ridiculously expensive. I wonder sometimes how dealership service shops stay in business. Virtually anywhere is less expensive and many are just as capable.