Help: 200 20V cut-out

[Brett Dikeman]

At 9:45 PM +0200 9/19/02, Ferry Stolp wrote:
>List,
>
>I need the help of you guys.
>A good friend just bought an '89 200 tq 20V, euro-model with the
>RR-engine (yup, it made me drool!).

It's not the RR, and it must be an '90.  200q20v's only came in two
years; 1990(Euro market only) and 1991(USA market only) and in both
cases, they have the 3B, not the RR.  The RR is the UrQ engine.


>Car stalls at random rpm's, mostly about 4000.

If it stalls coming to a stop particularly immediately after hard
running(doesn't sound like this particular problem) then the turbo
bypass valve is shot.

>  It will restart right away
>perfectly and runs very smoothly.
>He read the codes but they where all clean, no faults.

Off the top of my head...

Check the ignition key switch(wiggle the ignition key with the engine
running), particularly if he has a lot of keys on his keyring(or the
PO did, I guess.)  Also swap out the fuel pump relay with a known
good unit if you have one; they often break internally.  Double check
the ground points on the IM side.  Double check ignition wires and
ignition coil connections.


>The car was resting for about a year but fired right away after installing a
>fresh battery. He also did an oil change.

I hope he checked the timing belt, too...


>Second (minor) thing: how to get the radio (Audi Delta) off  'SAFe'??
>I know it's a combination of buttons to press to enter the code (which he
>has)
>but we stopped trying after 30 mins :)
>Any BTDT's somebody??

It is specific to the radio model; depends upon if it is Bose or
not(wagons = no bose, sedan = bose at least in the US market.)  ID
the radio and we'll have a better answer for you.

HTH,
Brett
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