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Audi Tie Rod Replacement (A6) FCP Euro
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We need a little more info on your car, can you give us a ring at 1-877-634-0063, we’d be happy to help you out more.
Going to do axles and tie rods on an A8L, been reading that the tie rods can be hard to separate, HOWEVER not sure yet if it has the servotronic steering, I have been reading the inner tie rod is diff on this model. ANY advice on this? This car came from Aspen Colorado, so Im just assuming the salt on the roads is gonna make the outers impossible to sep. from the inner :/
If you can…Mikes good thanks tho
No guarantees it will be Mike doing them but we’ve added it to our list, keep an eye out.
can the mechanic mike do an inner tie rod video??
Don’t bother trying to separate them on the car, loosen the outer tie rod from the spindle and loosen the inner tie road from the rack and replace both together. That’ll make life much easier for you. Hope that helps!
The outer tie rod on my car doesn’t want to spin free of the inner tie rod. It’s seized up pretty good. How much force can I use to break it free? Or should I just let the on blaster do its thing and come back in awhile and try again?
$100 is not a terrible price, especially if it includes the parts. Of course we encourage you to try this yourself if you’re comfortable enough.
This look like a job that took you guys less than half hour to do. My local shops all want to charge me $100-$150 for changing the tie rod end for my 01′ audi a6. Is that normal or should i find other shops?
The turns should be the same, however we don’t recommend doing this without getting an alignment afterwards. Hope that helps!
This might be a stupid question but, If I am going from A4 TRE’s to S4 TRE’s is there a difference in how many turns I will have to do on the TRE to ensure that I do not have to get an alignment done?
I did get the bolt out. I took the car to a mechanic that had a torch and we had to put heat on the bolt. After that, we tapped the bolt and it came out. I went to Autozone and bought an identical bolt (the new bolt had a different head) and nut and drove home.
When I got home I whipped out my new tie rod ($34 from Amazon.com) did exactly what the guy in the video did and I had no problems. Extremely simple.
It’s on our to-do list!
Great video. Perhaps you could show how to replace the inner tie rod sometime soon?
hi
did you get the screw out
how did you do it
thanks
Thank you a lot! I wanted to be sure that I wasn’t crazy, there is no pin. I am just now reading your reply and I had already bought some PB Blaster earlier…so I’m glad to see that I’m on the right track there, too. No matter how hard I hit the screw with the punch and hammer the thing will not budge.
Your video is great; the camera angles, the pace of the work, and the instruction. I’d like to see brake pad and wheel bearing replacements for this model of A6 from you.
We were able to just use a punch to remove it, and the original bolt should be the same way. You can try using some penetrating solvent like PB Blaster if you think it might be seized but as far as I know nothing holds it in place.
From 1:12-1:22 you show the correct bolt that should have been used. How do you remove the pin in that bolt? I can not get the screw out of the hole because there is something holding it in place, even after I take off the front nut. How do I get to this pin?