Depends on how much you want to spend and your driving style. RF vs NRF is a personal prefrence item. NRF will give you a better ride and save some dough. RF will give you a little peace of mind, a little better MPG and a rougher ride. For my daily driver I prefer the non-run flat tires. 99 Z51...
1999 A4 Z51 Coupe. Bought the car with 64K 3 years ago with Firestone RF on the back and Michelin XGT RF on the front. At 80K one of the Firestones attracted a nail and a sidewall got cracked on the dismount. I ended up putting Kumho ASX's on the back. At 88K I replaced the front Michelins with...
Clean the key and use a q-tip soaked in denatured alcohol to clean the contacts just inside the entrance to the ignition switch. You will be amazed at the amount of greasy gunk that is keeping the resistor pellet in the key from being read correctly.
If you just need the drive motor RockAuto.com has them for about $80 rebuilt.
If you need the whole shooting match (cables, pulleys, gears, tracks, etc.) there are a couple of vendors on E-bay Motors that sell them for about $280.
Just replacing the motor did not require me to remove the...
My 99 Coupe has a rattle that I spent some time chasing but haven't cured yet. The noise seems to be coming from the styrofoam crash pad just inside the door panel, behind the arm rest. I started to remove it to glue it to the plastic door panel better but the only way to remove it is to...
It hit about 80 in Central Florida today, I drove my '99 A4 Pewter coupe to work on a dry road with XM 46 on. Not that I want all you guys to head this way! Wait until the spring thaw... then come visit.
I bought the car, '99 A4 coupe with Runflat Michelins on the front and Runflat Firestones on the back. There were no handling issues at all with the mix. As the Firestones were up for replacement after finding a nail in the tread and the tire shop cracking the sidewall disnounting it I put a set...
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