No heat in my 5ktq

[LL - NY]

Depending upon your milage (usually between 100K - 120K) the
blower motor brushes have been known to wear out. If this problem
becomes intermittent, I'd suspect the blower motor brushes.

Easy (temp) fix:
1. Lift up the plastic (it's BRITTLE, watch it!) plenum
cover (it's the big black plastic piece that says Audi in the middle of it),
it's held in place by a bunch of clips.

2. Locate the cylindrical blower motor, driver's side, under the wiper
assemblies.

3. Locate the rubber hose that comes from the blower housing to the
side of the motor, remove hose from the motor end.

4. Using a pencil, eraser end down, gently shove the brush against the
motor commutator. The brush is on a spring loaded assembly, what you're
bending is the bronze holder for the spring. You can spray some TV tuner
cleaner into the hole too, to clean and lube the area.

5. This is good for about a month. It can be repeated, but I don't really
know
the point in which this'll no longer work.

The above procedure got me through a winter of extensive driving until I
could
replace the motor and heater core on my 200Q (which is 4sale, if anyone is
interested. Since the marketplace is down, contact me offline if
interested).

LL - NY




On 12/5/05, Al S <streichea001 at hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
>
>
> I don't know much about your model but my '90 80 has a resistor pack
> located
> by the blower behind the glove box. About a $25 part. Mine has a white
> connector and the resistor is actually mounted in the blower duct,left of
> the blower. One screw holds it in.
> Al
> -----Original Message-----
> From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com
> [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com]On Behalf Of Stricker, Michael
> Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 2:42 AM
> To: quattro at audifans.com
> Subject: No heat in my 5ktq
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> There was no heat in my 1988 5ktq today.  I hear no fan(s) blowing and
> selecting the different modes doesn't cause anything to happen.  It seems
> as
> though a fuse or relay are bad.  The system ran fine only 1 day ago.
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike
>
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