2004 gt front level sensor
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2004 gt front level sensor
Today I had a level fault come up scanned it and ut said front right level sensor my question is has anyone used anything other than the Bentley one as looking at serial number it has an audi number and checking another code it also comes up with toureg headlight level sensor and they look identical
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Nope the Bentley one is also plastic how have you broken 3??
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Oh are they? I haven't a seen a Bentley one up close and personal yet. They look metal from the pix I've seen, but they also look much more curved in the arm than the Phaeton ones, so I'm guessing at least those don't interchange. IIRC the parts costs for a replacement for a Phaeton was less than $150 US.
My Phaeton has 177k miles on it. I've broken the left front and the right front one both at the joint where the halves have broken and become separated. Could be from wear or charging through a small snowbank in winter (I drive my Phaeton all year 'round). I'm now told I have another one broken but don't know how or why that one failed. Same issue I'd imagine - a weak movable joint that fails over time.
My Phaeton has 177k miles on it. I've broken the left front and the right front one both at the joint where the halves have broken and become separated. Could be from wear or charging through a small snowbank in winter (I drive my Phaeton all year 'round). I'm now told I have another one broken but don't know how or why that one failed. Same issue I'd imagine - a weak movable joint that fails over time.
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I don’t know...who ever had my car before me must have had 22” or something on it because after I did my front end and shocks I couldn’t get it to level right. So I took it to the dealer and they informed me that sensors were bent and they bent them back and leveled the car. I never held one but I don’t think plastic has that much give in this situation.
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I don’t know...who ever had my car before me must have had 22” or something on it because after I did my front end and shocks I couldn’t get it to level right. So I took it to the dealer and they informed me that sensors were bent and they bent them back and leveled the car. I never held one but I don’t think plastic has that much give in this situation.
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Given that it's only a potentiometer, it seems to me that these are a more realistically priced alternative:
www.aliexpress.com/item/4000928060445.html
All you have to do is swap over the linkage.
At that price (GBP23 delivered) it seems to me to be worth buying one as a sample to see how well made it is.
I wonder whether these, like many other things, are simply back door excess parts, because I can't see that it's worth tooling up for a copy for such a small market - A8, Q7, Phaeton, Toureg, and Cayenne.
www.aliexpress.com/item/4000928060445.html
All you have to do is swap over the linkage.
At that price (GBP23 delivered) it seems to me to be worth buying one as a sample to see how well made it is.
I wonder whether these, like many other things, are simply back door excess parts, because I can't see that it's worth tooling up for a copy for such a small market - A8, Q7, Phaeton, Toureg, and Cayenne.
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