Scary night (long)

[Adam A. Luy]

Ditto...this happened on my '87 5kCSTQA a couple of months ago. Seemed like the whole front end was a out ready to come off. The bulge in the tire wasn't even that big, but what a ruckus! 


-Adam


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From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Shawn Manny
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 12:48 PM
To: AUDIJIM at aol.com
Cc: urq at audifans.com; quattro at audifans.com
Subject: Re: Scary night (long)

inspect your tire for delam'd belts and unusual wear on the tread faces...this JUST happened to me on my VW....had a pocket in the sidewall from broken belts and boy o boy was the tread all squished together.

On 7/6/05, AUDIJIM at aol.com <AUDIJIM at aol.com> wrote:
> Well, the drive home last night from DC to NJ was nothing short of 
> hair raising. The pucker factor was definitely on the higher end of 
> the scale. Besides the heavy rain, lightning, thunder, and the typical 
> inexperienced foul weather drivers, my 282,000 mile Audi 5000cs Q got 
> me home, but with problems. I just put the car up in the air, but 
> haven't yet looked under there yet. The grass is very long, and the 
> weeds are just right for pulling (I long for the day my wife picks 
> gardening as her new pass time) so I'm taking a break before I start 
> the lawn. It all started when I left National Airport to head for 
> home. I was on the Baltimore/Washington Parkway when I started to get 
> a shaky steering wheel. I brushed it off to a little bit of 
> hydroplaning. I slowed down and it went away. It then returned on a 
> less wet/puddled section of road and went away when I let off the gas. 
> Now I'm a little concerned. It feels like it's coming from the right 
> front. It got so sever that I pulled over to inspect the front 
> steering and suspension gear and did I get soaked. I was remembering the time that someone or somehow loosened my left rear wheel lug bolts and how that felt (possible wheel theft attempt?), but this wasn't the case this time.
> Everything looked airworthy and I continued on. When I got onto I95 N, 
> I was waiting to go through the tunnel so I might see what effects a 
> dry section of road would have on my situation, no change. I continued 
> on until the first rest area (Maryland House) and pulled under the 
> cover at the Sunoco. I pulled out my jack and lifted the passenger 
> front off the ground. With my Streamlight, I inspected the control arm 
> and strut, drive axle and sway bar, everything under there that would 
> indicate the sever steering wheel shake I was getting while on the 
> accelerator. Nothing was visually wrong, even all the wheel weights were in tact and where they should be. Now I'm a little nervous for a couple reasons.
> I'm about 2 hours from home at this point, it's 0300 in the morning, I 
> have no metric tools with me (less the tool kit in the trunk) and I 
> can't see what wrong when I KNOW something is! I again pull over at 
> every rest stop between Baltimore and the New Jersey Turnpike and home 
> to inspect. To top it off, my A/C compressor exploded as I was going 
> through the toll booth right after the Del/Mor Bridge on the NJTP. Now 
> my visibility went Tango Uniform (Tits Up) and I have to use full heat 
> to get any sort of clear sight. Not that my cooling was a problem, but 
> at least the engine ran a lot cooler with the secondary radiator 
> (heater core) now in operation. I'll keep you informed with what I 
> find. The car has been running absolutely perfect and did so when I 
> drove to DC and the car sat in front of the hangar I work in for 4 days, except to run to the barber for a fresh high and tight.
> 
> And to top it off yet again, I find out that my union has asked to be 
> released from contract negotiations for a cooling off period and a 
> strike vote. I will be lucky if I'm able to hold onto my job through 
> the summer. Anyone need an airframe and powerplant technician with FAA 
> and FCC, aircraft welding certi, SAE, former Audi tech, former VW 
> tech, former State of Virginia safety, emissions tech and inspector 
> and an AS in aircraft maintenance technology? I might need new employment soon.
> 
> Sorry for the rant, I needed to vent.
> 
> Jim Furdyn
> 1983 UrQuattro #170
> 1987 4000cs Q
> 1987 Euro 200/5000cs TQ 282,000 miles
> 1996 A6 Quattro Avant
> 1987 Mercedes Benz Truck model 1219
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