funky idle

Rob Andrews randrews at sbcglobal.net
Thu Jan 24 12:30:45 EST 2002


Clean the throttle body out.  That should help a bunch

> -----Original Message-----
> From: quattro-admin at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-admin at audifans.com]On
> Behalf Of Brandon Rogers
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 10:35 AM
> To: quattro at audifans.com
> Subject: funky idle
>
>
> Hi All-
> It seems to me the idle on my car-'98 A4 1.8T w/ chip- has
> changed.  It
> seems to fluctuate ever so slightly when i sit at the light.
> That does not
> bother me, and may have been like that all along, but I don't
> remember it
> like that.  What bothers me is that if i blip the throttle it
> then drops
> down to the mark below 1000, becomes rough (barely) catches
> itself, and goes
> back to normal idle.  Or if I'm just sitting still with the
> motor idling and
> I crank the steering wheel all the way to one side, the idle
> dips - the same
> as if blipping the throttle.  Any ideas?  My first thought is maybe a
> cracked vacuum hose. ??  TIA.
>
> Brandon
> '98 A4
> '84 Urquattro
>
>



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