I was digging around at the back of the car, and found some moisture on both the rear shocks – not something to worry about if you’ve been driving the car on wet roads, which I hadn’t.
Yeah, both rear shocks were failing, and had begun to leak, time to replace them or risk an inevitable MOT failure.
Thankfully Olivia, is a Quattro, it actually makes doing this work a little easier IMHO.