I own a 2016 Audi S6 (V8TT) with 148,000 miles on it. The car has been good to me with only general upkeep needed.
I recently purchased new air struts and air shocks from a company in Germany. The struts do not have a fork built in but rather slide into a fork that is tightened.
The Audi Service Repair Manual is telling me to tighten the control arms, fork, and strut down by raising the wheel hub so the center of it is 384mm below the wheel arch trim. Seems easy enough if I'm willing to buy their engine lift and wheel bearing tool for thousands of dollars.
How can get the wheel hub and suspension to 384mm without breaking the bank? I have jack stands, a 3 ton jack, and a motorcycle jack, although I don't think I can use the motorcycle jack as it's only rates for 1,000 pounds.
Now you know why I can't stand Audi's because they are one of the worst cars in the world design wise to repair easily. Just like panzers and world war 2 are they took forever to change a worn-outs bracket where it takes 30 minutes to do the same thing on a Sherman. Personally I would have no idea how to do that job without a bunch of special tools and if I refuse to pay tons of money for tools to work on cars I can't stand. I never buy them myself. I send them to a German friend of mine which charges them small fortunes to work on their German cars.
