A couple of miscellaneous items

[Tony Hoffman]

1. It's on the transmission, just in front of the left inner CV joint, and
slightly above. Should be a three terminal plug. In the later ones, it is
incorperated into the left front wheel speed sensor, but then you also get
an ABS issue at the same time.

2. Time to put it on a lift, clean it as well as possible, and see where
it's coming from. With that rate of leakage, should be plenty easy.

3. Go find a wrecked A4/A6/Passat and take the adjuster from the headlight
to fix yours. It does not have to be HID, that part of the assy is the same.

4. no idea ;(

Tony

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Vincent Gelinas <vrgelinas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, all!
>
> A month and change with my Alumibeast and I love her - when we got that
> nasty, sticky snow last week, my A8 was the only one in our family that
> didn't get stuck (My stepdad's truck wouldn't have gotten stuck if he had
> looked in the mirror before backing down the driveway and avoiding the
> ditch, but that's a whole other can of worms, LOL.)  My mom now wants a
> quattro, and my stepdad is in love with my A8.  Who can blame them?  I may
> give my mom my A8 and get an Allroad (6MT, 2.7tt).  Not sure.
>
> First thing - lots of googling has turned up fruitless.  I failed
> inspection the other day because my check engine light was on due to my
> vehicle speed sensor.  Where is this located on my car, how do you access
> it, and how far do I have to bend over to buy a new one?
>
> Second - my engine (32v 4.2) is leaking like a sieve to the tune of 3-5Q a
> week, depending on how much I drive.  It's far worse when she's warm, and
> will leak enough to form a decent puddle if I'm idling for a while (like
> when I was adjusting headlights).  I've heard everything from the oil
> cooler (easy) to the oil pump gasket (difficult) to the head gaskets (might
> as well do those if I need to tear down to the oil pump gasket).  Where
> would the most likely culprit be for that?
>
> Third - I changed my right HID bulb a week or two ago and it is WAY out of
> alignment (downwards) and I can't, for the life of me, get it to cooperate
> and go back in alignment (I had to modify the adjuster because the stupid
> cheap plastic of the top screw broke, so I took a socket and used epoxy to
> bind it to the actual adjuster screw).  Any thoughts, or is it time to bend
> over and get a new headlamp?  I'd get e-codes off ECS but I'm fresh out of
> 2500 bucks, LOL.  That goes to savings for tuition.
>
> Fourth - How does one wire the Bose amp for the rear deck?  Is it as
> simple as plugging in that DIN connector that looks like a parallel port or
> do I have to unravel the crap wiring job for an aftermarket amp that the PO
> used?
>
> Okay - more than a couple things... Thanks in advance for all the help!
>
> Vincent
> 1999 Audi A8q\32v 4.2L
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