4kq: Wierd oil temp behavior/ *classic* audi humorousness!

[Tony Hoffman]

This exdactly describes my 4000Q. I replaced the factory ground with a 2
gauge, and it's perfect again. On a side note, the aux cooler setup off a
5000 CS Quattro bolted right up and helped even more.

Tony Hoffman


On 8/22/06, Robert M <porter_t_dog at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>   My 4kq has always been really boring, temperature wise, in the 4 years
> I've been driving it.   Unless I'm idling in traffic the water temp gauge
> is
> in the lower third, and the oil temp gauge (the LED one to the right of
> the
> difflock control) is somewhere around the middle of the scale.
>
> Then, one day a couple weeks ago I noticed the oil temperature was a lot
> higher than normal, about 3/4 of the way to the top.   That was a hot day,
> and as it seemed to be a one-time thing I put it out of my mind.  Until
> Sunday, that is.
>
>   About 45 minutes in to a 3 hour drive I noticed that the oil temp was
> high again.  Worse yet, in the next 5 minutes or so it continued to climb,
> to a point one LED short of the Red Zone.   Despite the fact that the day
> was cool and my water temps were low I pulled off the higway to
> investigate.
> Coolant bottle full?  Check.   Coolant bottle and radiator hot?  Check.
> Oil on the dipstick?  Check.   Any feeling of unusual heat in the engine
> department?  Negative.  Oil smell burned?  Negative.   Hmmmm.  I got back
> on
> the highway, relieved to see that the oil temp had dropped back to what
> I'd
> consider normal.  In 2 minutes.   Weird!
>
>   Driving on for another mile or so the temp began to go back up.  It hit
> the red led, and then the display went blank.  Surprised, dismayed, and
> not
> a little freaked out, I reached out and tapped the LED panel like one
> would
> a mechanical gauge that was acting up.  *Much* to my surprise, the gauge
> not
> only came back to life but upon reillumination the lit LED went from the
> top
> slot back down to the normal zone, cycling through every LED in between.
> Again, *just* like a sticking mechanical gauge.
>
> It was just like the Reactor Coolant Level gauge in "The China Syndrome".
>
> The Audi gods have a twisted sense of humor, but at least they left me
> alone for the rest of my drive ;)
>
>
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