LJH

My Dad has his '04 A8L in the dealer for an issue with the front suspension. Last week the front suspension would not pump up and his indy said that he was not comfortable working on it and suggested taking the car to the dealer. Get this, the dealer is saying that the front airbags need to be replaced and the job is going to run around $5000.00, $4000.00 for parts and a grand to install them. I searched all the Audi forums as well as google and actually did not come up with much in the way of info. Wondering if any of you have been down this road before, after market airbags (I found a bunch of info for the Allroad but not the A8)?, coilover conversion? That is crazy money and there has to be a better way.

Cheers,
Jim