Are 4kq speedo heads repairable?

[Steve Buchholz]

... I've never seen under the hood of an '87 4kQ so I can't say, but I know the '86 4kQ is cable too.  I've got to say that having an electronic speedo and a cable odo has got to be a new one for me and Audis ... and I thought I'd pretty much seen it all!

All the electronic speedo/odos I've seen simply install a sending unit where otherwise the cable would attach on the transaxle ... so your '87 would have to have some sort of adapter in that location that allowed a cable to be attached as well as having the sending unit ... correct?  

I knew the Type 44s of similar vintage had either electronic or mechanical speedos depending upon whether it was a turbo or not (or perhaps it was quattro or not) ... 

Steve Buchholz
San Jose, CA (USA)
> 
> this is not the case on my car, (87 4kq) I thought it is safe to say
> that the '86 is the same. The there are two inputs into the unit, a
> cable for the odometer, and two wires for the speedometer. The '85's and
> before the may have a mechanical speedo, I don't know, but the
> speedometers in the 87's are clearly electronically controlled. (The
> speedo works just fine without a odometer cable connected)