Quick & Dirty way to tell when knock sensors were introduced by Audi

[Christo Atanasov]

...and no one of euro engines with CR 10:1 hasn't knock sensor, untill '87.5
NG ;)
and it's true that for these cars Audi recomends 98Octane petrol

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ti Kan" <ti at amb.org>
To: "superba" <superba at comcast.net>
Cc: "Audi Mailing List" <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 3:45 AM
Subject: Re: Quick & Dirty way to tell when knock sensors were introduced by
Audi


> I wrote:
> > Basically, a quick rule of thumb is that since model year
> > 1984, all turbo
> > engines and all normally aspirated that that have 10:1
> > static compression
> > ratio or higher have knock sensors.
>
> Oh, and one exception to that "rule of thumb" is the UrQ.  The '84
> and '85 models carry the same WX code I5 turbo engine from 1983 and
> has no knock sensor.
>
> -Ti
> 2003 A4 1.8T multitronic
> 2001 S4 biturbo 6-sp
> 1984 5000S turbo
> 1980 4000 2.0 5-sp
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