generic A4 questions

[Ed Kellock]

I generally romp all over my NG motored CGT.  It now has 142k.

I changed the thermostat Saturday and found the coolant to be very
nasty and cloudy even though it was less than 2 years old.

Then I changed the oil and as I watched the last bit drain, I noticed
a light colored streak in it.  I thought it was a reflection from the
shop light but turned out it wasn't.  Then I checked the oil fill cap.
 Just a little bit of light chocolate colored frosting on it.  Hmmm...

Don't remember it ever having overheated.  Any time I've gotten the
flashing water temp signal (digital dash, all bars flash on and off,
quite noticeable) it was because of slightly low level in the coolant
reservoir and a long curve to the ... uh left? right?  whichever, a
pretty common thing in these.

However, this newly discovered evidence of head gasket leak could
explain why for some time now the coolant has seemed to go down ever
so slowly.

Ed

On 2/5/07, Huw Powell <audi at humanspeakers.com> wrote:
>
> > warm up and cool down are only slightly more work than what you would
> > normally do. you're not going to flog any car cold are you?
>
> I've been waiting for an appropriate line to quote to comment on this.
> Where I live is somewhat unique in that I am about 200 feet from the
> "road to anywhere" - a 55 mph highway I usually turn left on, that has a
> blind curve a few hundred yards "to the right".
>
> Meaning, if I follow the old-school VAG intructions of "don't warm it
> up, just drive", I am at that stop sign with a cold engine, and when I
> pull out I never know in advance if I might have to goose it because a
> semi just came around the corner behind me.
>
> Meaning, at least once or twice a week I red line the thing in second
> less than 60 seconds after starting a cold engine.  Never seen any
> problems with this, but then again, I'm not doing it to a turbocharged
> engine.
>
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