Front Springs for ST

http://www.coilsprings.co.uk based in Sheffield?

Some of the Sport models left the factory with the same springs as an S4. Clean up one of your front springs and make a note of the colour markings, then use a website like oemepc.com to find out the part number for yours. Then go to somewhere like the Kilen springs catalogue, cross reference your spring part number and see what else it fits. If it only fits 2.0 cars, I'm thinking you should look for 2006 A4 3.0 TDI SE springs, they shouldn't be lower but you'll get the extra stiffness.

Just a warning, the upper arm pinch bolts are a nightmare to remove, they seize into the aluminium housing and oxyacetylene is generally the only way to remove them in situ, just make sure the ball joints are covered with a wet rag otherwise you'll need new upper control arms. Air hammer sometimes works but access is tricky. The whole front suspension unit can be removed and worked on while clamped to a vice, where one technician can bash on one side with an air hammer while another impact guns the hex. Another option is to cut the bolt in half though the gap in the housing, then use a drift, a hardened hex coupling or drill on the rest of it. I'm currently dripping oil onto mine daily in the hope that some seeps in and magically loosens them. It's probably going to ruin my drive and make my tyres useless but I need to try something!

Good luck!

You don’t need to remove the pinch bolts to do springs just undo the back 16mm bolts if the pinch bolts won’t come out.

Should take around 2-3 hours to do both front springs on B7 chassis easy cars to work on.

Undo the 18mm strut bolt (blue)
Undo the 16mm ARB bolt (black)
Undo the 3 16mm top mount bolts (green)
Undo the 2 16mm top wish bone bolts (red)

The strut will come out this way, when reinstalling you need to “load” the suspension put a jack under the lower ball joints before doing the 2 16mm wish bone bolts up tight, little bit fiddly bit quickest way rather then trying to smash or drill the pinch bolts out. When had to replace my top arms took over 2 hours of heat and smashing the pinch bolt out the leg.

Jay1601 said:

Undo the 18mm strut bolt (blue)
Undo the 16mm ARB bolt (black)
Undo the 3 16mm top mount bolts (green)
Undo the 2 16mm top wish bone bolts (red)

The strut will come out this way, when reinstalling you need to “load” the suspension put a jack under the lower ball joints before doing the 2 16mm wish bone bolts up tight, little bit fiddly bit quickest way rather then trying to smash or drill the pinch bolts out. When had to replace my top arms took over 2 hours of heat and smashing the pinch bolt out the leg.

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