Fuel Pump sound? - 86 5KS

[Aleksander Mierzwa]

At 13:34 00-09-05 EDT, Marty Hadden wrote:

>I stopped in the drive thru at lunch today.. and noticed, for lack of a 
>better description, a sound from fuel pump area, that sounded just like my 
>wiper motor when it's activated, *except* noticably louder, as I could hear 
>it over the engine and exhaust.  When the car was moving again, it stopped.  
>Must have been like this for 3-5 min.  When I stopped again, the noise was 
>gone.  Telltale sign of a dying fuel pump?  I have never heard this before 
>on any of my previous Audis.  Any ideas?

Unless you were very low on fuel (which causes the pump to run dry for a
couple of seconds during braking), your fuel pump is on the way out.

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Aleksander Mierzwa
Warsaw, Poland
87 5KT