No power on hills - help desperately needed

[gmb7115]

when it gets this bad, at night i've seen the em and cat glowing red hot
when it is plugged like this.
regards,
gabe

-----Original Message-----
From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com
[mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com]On Behalf Of urq
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 12:13 AM
To: quattro at audifans.com
Subject: Re: No power on hills - help desperately needed


IMO this is a classic case of a plugged cat.  On my ex-Fox the element broke
loose and plugged the outlet ... same symptom.  The amount of pressure that
built up in the exhaust created a noticable hissing sound you could plainly
hear with the windows rolled down.

Steve B
San Jose, CA (USA)
>
> I have an automatic 1993 Audi Quattro 90S.  Last weekend I noticed a
> loss of power on hills.  I haven't driven much until today and the
> problem was much more pronounced.  Even slight hills gave me some
> trouble and I crept up a steep one at 20mph with the pedal to the floor.
> RPMs wouldn't top 3000.  I never had any trouble like this before last
> weekend, but the car has only been driven 300 or so miles in the past 2
> months.  Does anyone know what could be causing this?  I had thought
> about a vacuum leak and I tried the "pull the dipstick" test and it kept
> running fine so that likely isn't an issue.  I'm really at a loss here
> and I'm afraid to even go for a drive because I'm afraid the car might
> die on me.  I love my Audi but I'm scared to drive it.  Can anyone
> please offer some suggestions?

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