99 A6 with body squeaks

Have a '99 A6 V6 with 115K miles. Recently, the car had some major front
end noises and had to have both lower control arms and ball joints replaced.
After fix, still hear some squaking (probably unrelated to front end)
noises. Sounds like they are coming from the springs - getting in and out
of car. The 120K major tune-up (replace timing belt and water pump) is
coming up. Looking at the maintenance punch list of items, I can't tell if
these squeaks will be taken care of or if I have to specifically point them
out. Can anyone recommend specific things to do to address these?

Thanks for any advice you can offer.

"Dale Webler" <dwebler (AT) wi (DOT) rr.com> wrote

Have a '99 A6 V6 with 115K miles. Recently, the car had some major front
end noises and had to have both lower control arms and ball joints
replaced. After fix, still hear some squaking (probably unrelated to front
end) noises. Sounds like they are coming from the springs - getting in
and out of car. The 120K major tune-up (replace timing belt and water
pump) is coming up. Looking at the maintenance punch list of items, I
can't tell if these squeaks will be taken care of or if I have to
specifically point them out. Can anyone recommend specific things to do
to address these?

Thanks for any advice you can offer.

that will be the spring retaining cups............dried out.

can't see this being on a major tune up.

you could try a penetrating lub spray on the end of each spring.

Had the same problem...
Replace a link/arm - $51CDN and 1 1/2hr labour at the dealer.
This arm / link is connected to the suspension and to the xeon lights
system.
so as the car moves up and down the lights are adjusted.
The noise went away. after I changed it,


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Have a '99A6V6 with 115K miles. Recently, the car had some major front
end noises and had to have both lower control arms and ball joints
replaced. After fix, still hear some squaking (probably unrelated to front
end) noises. Sounds like they are coming from the springs - getting in
and out of car. The 120K major tune-up (replace timing belt and water
pump) is coming up. Looking at the maintenance punch list of items, I
can't tell if thesesqueakswill be taken care of or if I have to
specifically point them out. Can anyone recommend specific things to do
to address these?

Thanks for any advice you can offer.

that will be the spring retaining cups............dried out.

can't see this being on a major tune up.

you could try a penetrating lub spray on the end of each spring.

Thanks for the feedback guys. Both are good ideas I'll follow up on.

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Had the same problem...
Replace a link/arm - $51CDN and 1 1/2hr labour at the dealer.
This arm / link is connected to the suspension and to the xeon lights
system.
so as the car moves up and down the lights are adjusted.
The noise went away. after I changed it,


On Apr 27, 2:10 am, "Fergus" <9... (AT) 118btinternet (DOT) com> wrote:
"Dale Webler" <dweb... (AT) wi (DOT) rr.com> wrote in message
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Have a '99A6V6 with 115K miles. Recently, the car had some major front
end noises and had to have both lower control arms and ball joints
replaced. After fix, still hear some squaking (probably unrelated to
front
end) noises. Sounds like they are coming from the springs - getting in
and out of car. The 120K major tune-up (replace timing belt and water
pump) is coming up. Looking at the maintenance punch list of items, I
can't tell if thesesqueakswill be taken care of or if I have to
specifically point them out. Can anyone recommend specific things to
do
to address these?

Thanks for any advice you can offer.

that will be the spring retaining cups............dried out.

can't see this being on a major tune up.

you could try a penetrating lub spray on the end of each spring.