Checking the Drive shaft movement and the state of the boots. State of the sway-bar/stabiliser link
Sooner or later, your driveshaft needs attention. If you start noticing any clicking noise when moving the car back and forth, you better check your drive shaft. Especially among the owners with aftermarket header/exhaust system, the right side drive shaft boot tends to split/leak at very early stage. If you ignore the early sign, in the worst case scenario, you’ll need to replace the entire shaft which will be very-very expensive even getting the parts from US or Japan. HUK will charge you about GBP650 to 750 + VAT PER SIDE depending on the AT/MT type.
I’ll be re-furbishing these drive shaft very soon for the owner.
Stabi link was also very tired and most of the grease were gone…. The suspension setup on this particular car was too aggressive and ended up in this state… Will be modifying the setup and replacing other parts very soon.
Bose Speaker Amp
As same as the Climate Control Unit (CCU), the Bose speaker amplifier will die due to the leakage from capacitors.
On this car, one of the FET was burnt and at the same time, it damaged the Bose specific IC as well. Also, I had to replace some of the surface mount parts.
Managed to service all 3 Amps on the car and now we have deep Bass from the footwell speaker and left/right door with centre speakers are now working fine.
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