P4Ring

Don't worry, they won't die. They make huge markups off these bags. For the cost to manufacture these bags, they should not sell for so much. They do that only because dealer wants an arm and leg, or should I say "gold" for them. So when they sell them for half dealer price, we get them instead.

I have seen the Airbagit bags and the Arnott Gen1.1 and it is the same thing. Two pieces of aluminum and a rubber bladder, you take a metal band and compress the bladder around the aluminum...job done. The so-called Goodyear bladder in these Arnott bags is not as strong as the original Continental bags. The Continental bags are braided (threads inside the rubber). When the Continental bags will develop small pin hole leak in the folded area, I have seen the Arnott Goodyear's rip in the middle area from the inside. Something that don't normally happen with the Continental braided bags. I still have 3 good original bags and 175,000 miles 11 years and no leak in 3 bags. The front seem to be the first to go, so I have a slow leak in the right front.

Lloyd Vines

So how did you get the broken airline out, i did the same thing.

freetobelee

Used a device called an "easy-out" (maybe EZ-OUT). it was given to me by the guy at the pipe fitting supply store when I purchased a new fitting.

<img src="http://freetobelee.earjuice.com/audi/easyout.jpg"/>

TxM_AR

Is there a VAG SSG (SSP whatever) for the Air Suspension that does into detail? Or should I just stop being a chump and buy the Bentley manual?

freetobelee

Just a small update of the last couple months:

My air suspension control module went kablooey, so it wouldn't re-inflate my now leaking left-rear bag.
The front bags were leaking slowly too, but i narrowed it down to the push on type connector of the air fitting, which just needed a little re-jiggering. so the AIRBAGIT bags are working fine, and I have now put about 2500 miles on the second set that they sent me.

Got the module replaced. Got the faulty height sensor figured out - my replacement went kablooey and the original was still good once the wires were fixed. With a VAGCOM was able to finally complete calibration.

While recalibrating the suspension, I kept running into a 'sensor value out of range' error (sorry i forget the exact code) because of the IPP arms and a control module that had much lower settings stored. I could complete calibration process, but the new values wouldn't take. I found that by putting the car on level 3, running the calibration, and then putting it back to level 2 to measure the changes worked pretty well, and would prevent this error from appearing. It took a couple of rounds of doing this to get everything at an acceptable level.

With one rear bag still leaking (although i couldn't find the leak with a spray bottle), i went ahead and ordered Arnott Gen II rear bags which i will install at my convenience. if the airbagit ones fail, I'll replace those with Arnott Gen II as well, instead of dealing with the AIRBAGIT warranty process, as i would prefer the stiffer ride anyway.

PetrolBear

Search for SSP243 and SSP242 on the web.

freetobelee

its been a while, so a little update.
about 9 months ago, i tried to install the arnott gen 2 bags in the rear, but when i had everything apart, realized my shocks were pretty much pooped out too. put everything together and have been driving it like that.

finally just scored some used arnott bilsteins (10k on them) for the rear, and am going to get the new bags and shocks installed at a shop locally.

I'm thinking about replacing the front shocks under the airbagit bags as well.
any suggestions on which ones i should use? new arnott bilsteins?

Swaydeep

Can you message how I can get of hold of silva. I want some of those ipp for my allroad. Thanks!

robpenn

Got the IPPs over a year ago. They are great and Silva was really helpful.

PS: My air-ride is dying too. Suggestions from the community welcome at this URL:

https://www.audiworld.com/forums/sus...lroad-2883466/

Swaydeep

how can I get some for me?