quattro digest, Vol 1 #4446 - 15 msgs

[Larry C Leung]

Ooooooh, wellllll......whaatever......




Dontcha know.....


the answer is.....


42.....


(sorry, couldn't resist, unfortunately can't help you
with your Autocheck problem other than suggesting
checking grounds, sensor wires etc.)

LL - NY





> Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 14:46:10
> To: quattro at audifans.com
> From: Mike Arman <armanmik at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Regards from HAL - call the shrink
>
>
>
>
> I'm hearing from my good friend HAL - the psychotic on-board
> command
> computer in my 86 5Ks (5 speed).
>
> Yesterday AM, he started complaining about a bulb out - and sure
> enough,
> the left rear stop lamp was kaput - so I insalled a new bulb, he
> stopped
> complaining, and I patted him on the head, saying "Good HAL, nice
> HAL",
> just amazed that it had finally worked the way it should have.
>
>
> This evidently went to his head, because at noon today, I started
> getting a
> triple-beep with a red triangle - the book sez the triple beep plus
> red
> triangle is a problem, stop and fix it NOW - but there's nothing ON
> the
> triangle! No emblems, no indicators at all, just the triangle. I've
> checked
> all systems, oil, water, temp, brake fluid, pentosin, all appear
> normal,
> and nothing is smoking, hanging or dripping (more likely pouring)
> out . . .
> WTF???? Everything seems OK, car runs fine.
>
>
> Unless maybe HAL has retired and his replacement is Marvin the
> Paranoid
> Android (somehow more fitting for a borderline geriatric Audi 5K).
>
>
> Ideas welcome . . .
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Mike Arman
>