sinking type 44, help!

[Stott Hare]

It may not actually matter if the drain is clogged...  If I recall correctly
the vent defaults to open in the plenum area.  If the drip cover is missing,
it is possible (especially with the describer parking angle) that the rain
water had direct access into the cabin.  Just another thought, something to
check or replace...

HTH,
-S

Stott Hare
85 Callaway 4ktq     89 200q     89 100q


-----Original Message-----
From: quattro-admin at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-admin at audifans.com]On
Behalf Of Peter Berrevoets
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 9:00 AM
To: 'Cassidy Bolger'
Cc: 1 Quattro List (E-mail)
Subject: RE: sinking type 44, help!



You may want to check the drain that takes water out of the area in the
engine compartment that is next to the fresh air intake for that passenger
compartment. If this is blocked and your fresh air vent is open, you will
collect water inside.

HTH

Peter Berrevoets
1990 200TQ
Toronto, Canada
http://frontpage.home.net/pjberr/


> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: quattro-admin at audifans.com
> >[mailto:quattro-admin at audifans.com]On
> >Behalf Of Cassidy Bolger
> >Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 12:12 AM
> >To: quattro at audifans.com
> >Subject: sinking type 44, help!
> >
> >
> >Gang,
> >
> >I opened the rear door of my 1986 5ktq today and found the
> >rear right seat
> >floor to be completely flooded.  Water had risen to the
> >level of the bottom
> >of the door.  The battery was sitting in four inches of
> >water.  My first
> >task was to carefully remove it and then I began to bail!
> >Here is the story,
> >  The car has been sitting for three weeks parked pointed
> >uphill on the
> >right side of a steep and crowned San Francisco street.  We
> >have been
> >receiving major rain for several weeks, and the Audi has
> >been catching it
> >for me.  So, water is entering somewhere, and it settled in
> >the right rear
> >since that is the lowest point of the car in its present
> >position.  There
> >was so much water that even the right front seat floorboard
> >is wet.  A
> >clogged sunroof drain? The headliner and pillars seem clean
> >and dry.  The
> >car has always held some water in the  left rear well in the
> >trunk, so I
> >looked there next.  Alas, the well was full and overflowing
> >into the spare
> >wheel well.  So, I have a full left wheel well and right side of the
> >interior is a swimming pool that is quickly growing things.
> >I live in the
> >center of the city and have to park on the street, so these
> >days I don't do
> >much work on the car myself.  Should I go to a body man or a regular
> >mechanic?  I have a good mechanic down the street.  In the
> >long term, any
> >advise for saving the carpet.  How am I going to dry this
> >thing?  I hate not
> >having a garge!
> >Maybe Bosch makes a bilge pump for cars  ;)
> >
> >Cassidy Bolger
> >1986 5kcstq (a.k.a The Ark)
> >San Francisco
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