Update: I popped the hood and had my wife turn the steering wheel from side-to-side while I listened. I've determined that the creaking is coming somewhere from the top of the strut tower. Sounds like something is rubbing and when the wheels turn. When we got home, I took a combination wrench and pu...

Haven't been able to get a good grasp on my swaybar links, but was able to observe the tops of my strut mounts while turning the wheels back and forth (like a DJ). I didn't observe any pulsing up and down from either, just some side-to-side. According to my invoice they did replace the mounts, sprin...

As an aside, I do have a set of Lemforder or Meyle (I can't remember which) swaybar links that I've yet been unable to install, are those the end links, or is that different?

You may want to test the end links, with a wheel at full turn, grab the link strongly - use some thick leather gloves (Harbor Freight sells some great Hardy full grain gloves for $7) - and shake with force near the top then near the bottom ends. You should feel for any play - car on level surface M...

Hi everyone, I'd posted a few months back about having my strut mounts replaced back in July on my 2004 S60 AWD. As far as I know they did the mounts and dampers, but not entirely sure if they changed the bearings or not (it was close to a $900 repair bill, but I'd have to look at the invoice again)...

Hi June, It just seemed like a good thing to do every 10K or so in addition to my air filter since I have been using the "cheaper" plugs. On my wife's past Jetta and now on her Q5, I know the interval on the plugs is 80 to 100K on the iridium. I changed those each one time in the lifetime ...

I should maybe re-phrase what I observed. The threaded area on the plug that I removed was longer (and therefore I'd guess has more threads) than the one I put in. I'm not sure if the overall length of the plug differed or not--I didn't bother to look at the two side-by-side.

I've had the car for about three years now, it's at roughly 123K miles now. This is the third set of Bosch platinum plugs that I've used now since I've owned it. I can't recall if there was a difference between the first and second set, but I did notice it immediately this time. Well, I certainly ap...

You knowingly put plugs with different threads into a soft aluminum head? I would worry more about the now damaged threads in the head. If it is running fine and you are blessed that one or more does not blow out, I would never, ever, ever remove them again. June Thanks, June for the response. If t...

I guess I'm wondering if I should pull these plugs and replace them with something else. As far as I can tell, there doesn't seem to be a lot of information out there about these plugs for this specific application.