[Biturbos4] battery & sun roof closes itself

[Rohan Singh]

Ditto with the emmission control light gong on in very
cold weather. I haven't had the dealership do a
Vag-Com reading but it's done this twice in the last
ten days and gone off by itself later same day when
the car was at highway speed - weird. I've stopped
being concerned since the car seems to run just fine.

Rohan Singh
2001 S4 with 110K (kilometres)
Toronto

--- John Marshall Harrison <JohnMH at uwyo.edu> wrote:

> I just replaced the battery in my 2001.5 S4 Avant
> over Thanksgiving
> weekend.  I was lucky enough to find one at a
> Casper, WY auto parts
> store on a Saturday.  The original went nearly 4.5
> years.  A quick check
> of the electrolyte levels showed them essentially
> full - perhaps the
> dealer had checked this at the regular services.  I
> consider 4 to 5
> years to be an adequate battery service life
> although not the most I've
> ever got out of one.
> 
> On the windows gremlins topic - my sun roof
> sometimes closes right after
> I open the back slot.  This is annoying because I
> sometimes like to run
> the feed to an amateur radio mag-mount antenna out
> through there - its
> quite convenient weather permitting.  On a couple
> occasions I've had it
> close for reasons I'm not completely sure of -
> squeezing my coaxial
> antenna feed line in exactly the way I'd hoped to
> avoid.
> 
> Another topic - does anyone else get the engine
> check light in cold
> temperatures indicating an emission control seal
> problem when read on
> the Vag-Com?  Sometimes it resets itself, especially
> after re-fueling to
> full.  I suspect its just the gas cap loosing its
> seal.  Should I be
> suspecting anything more serious?  Cheers.
> 
> John M. Harrison  johnmh at uwyo.edu
> Laramie, WY at 7200 feet  26 Deg F. below zero this
> morning - the S4
> fired right up, but the drive train was a little on
> the stiff side on
> the way to work.
> Silver 2001.5 S4 Avant 6 speed 40k mi Dunlop winter
> sport tires
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Lin [mailto:steven at juniper.net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 12:59 PM
> To: Bill Neilsen
> Cc: biturbos4 at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: [Biturbos4] battery
> 
> 
> Bill Neilsen writes:
> 
> > KUDOS to whomever gave the tip on the NON
> maintainence battery.  I 
> > have a
> > '01 with 45k and have noticed the battery acting a
> little suspect so I
> 
> > charged it before I got the tip.
> 
> > I just put between 12-14 oz in each cell.
> 
> > So is the battery pretty much shot and if so where
> is a good source 
> > for a
> > new one.  I noticed the '96 325 would only accept
> a BMW battery at
> $175 a 
> > pop.
> 
> If my experience is typical, then the battery won't
> be lasting much
> longer.  The cells on my stock battery were half
> empty after about 3
> years.  Refilling the cells revived it a bit, but
> that lasted only a few
> months.  
> 
> I went out and got Diehard International.  I had no
> problems installing
> it.  Getting all the plastic pieces off was the
> hardest part.
> 
> -- 
> Steven
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