pocketchange

Since I cannot locate the above "rear shock mount kit,"
I was curious if rebuilding the mount is the path to take?
pc

Oxnardo Ring

A lot of us have had good luck ordering from the UK. In fact, that's the preferred, fastest way to get "the correct" fuel pump.
These guys have it:
https://www.autodoc.co.uk/car-parts/oem/4d0512169d

I tend to use worldcarparts.co.uk for fuel pumps, although I didn't check to see if they have this part.

jfrahm

The fuel pump can now be had from USA suppliers, I got one from partscontainer off ebay and one from Europaparts from their website. Under $150.

Oxnardo Ring

I think World Car Parts (north London) got the last one here in about 10 days for just under $100, Although, I just checked on my last order for two was from Latvia-- that was $110 delivered to CA for two units. That took just over two weeks. It's good to know we have US suppliers stocking the correct parts now, since sometimes it would be handy to get parts in days not weeks.

Speaking of which, I need to post about the adventure of "bad fuel pump syndrome" in that 2001 A8 sometime-- I thought I'd seen everything in dealing with fuel pumps on these, but I got a real surprise.

jfrahm

The Intermotor brand pump? It'd be nice if there was a good aftermarket option. I had a lot of problems with an MTM aftermarket, it almost worked well enough to run the scavenge system. Almost.

Oxnardo Ring

The WorldCarParts.co.uk guys in North London sent a VDO part, which I assume is genuine-- it had the VDO hologram sticker thing on the box.
I need to go rummage around in the trunk of my S8 to see what the Latvian guys from Riga sent. My "never leave the city limits without this stuff" in the trunk now includes a spare fuel pump, alternator-regulator replacement and a serpentine.

I also have a Ming Blue A8L (2001 as well) that I need to check out my fuel pump theory on... Here and over on QW there's this strange pattern about fuel pumps failing a lot more on empty tanks of gas. I've now how had three "go out" like that, but... I know I'll get flamed when I post it, but I have a theory about why that "appears" to be the case. But I did find something very strange before I went to replace my fuel pump on the S8 a couple of weeks ago. I think it's related to the scavenge system-- which they re-designed in the D3 right?

pocketchange

Any chance this fuel pump discussion can move to a separate thread..!! pc

Oxnardo Ring

@pocketchange

Yes, absolutely. Apologies-- I took this OT. Trying to do too many things at once today as I'm trying to track down a wiring issue on an old Benz and weighed in without a new thread. Once I get the signals working again on this beast I'll start a new thread.

audinutt

You link shows the part out of stock, just like I found when trying to order them anywhere in the UK or USA.

-Richard

Oxnardo Ring

World Car Parts supplier of "correct" OEM fuel pump. They have never failed me...
I've generally used World Car Parts in North London. They are showing lots of stock on the fuel pump. They are great guys, even called to check (it was the middle of the night here in CA) when I once had a fuel pump drop-shipped to our office in London but billed to the US credit card. They wanted to confirm it wasn't card fraud.
Here's the web address for them...


I'll go poke around for the shock mount.