Outside Temp Sensors

[Andrew Duane USG]

Hairy green toads from Mars made Michael Riebs / Audi V8 say:
>
> It's a teeny little thing that is located directly behind the plastic front
> grille, on the vertical bar that supports the middle of the hood when
> closed. There should be a little plastic doohickey with 2 wires coming from
> it, and there's a holder on that vertical metal piece. Sometimes they fall
> out of the holder, and get real close to something that's much hotter than
> the air.
>
> Michael L. Riebs
> Grand Rapids, Michigan
>
> '90 V8Q
> '98 A6QA

Most cars also have a second one inside the air intake plenum for the
HVAC system. Under the plastic cover near the firewall on the passenger
side. Not sure if the '86s did. My '89 and '90 did.

But it is usually the one up front that fails, often due to corrosion
around the connector.

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