quattro Digest, Vol 5, Issue 23 - minor type 44 issues

[l.leung at juno.com]

Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 11:14:59 -0800
From: "Chris Dyer" <chrisdyer at hotmail.com>
Subject: minor type44 issues
To: quattro at audifans.com
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I have a couple of (hopefully) minor prob's w/my '87 5kcstq; any 
ideas/btdt's appreciated:

1. Cruise control only works after holding the Set button for a long time. 
Sometimes it requires multiple pushes.

>  Probably a pedal switch (brake/clutch vacuum) issue. See Scott
>Mockry's site <www.sjmautotechnik.com > for details on this, it does
>involve removing the lower dash, which is a pain.


2. On first start up and running for 30sec-1min or so, the brakes act 
poorly--pedal is super-firm, but virtually no power to stop. Scary when 
pulling out of a parking spot! Then after a very short period, they're 
normal.  I'm trying to think of when this happened...I had a steering rack 

>sounds like a dead bomb (hydraulic pressure accumulator, i.e. Pentosin >system)


t.i.a.

from chrisdyer at hotmail.com