300K is nothing for an Audi

[Peter Elias]

My gauges seem to be working fine (even at 324,000+ miles).

There are a few "gremlins" in the dash though.  Known issues with solder joints on the back of the gauge cluster. It occasionally causes some lighting issues (ie: both turn signal indicators on full green, and 2 or 3 lights on the gauges not working; then all of a sudden the turn signal indicator lights go dark and the rest of the backlighting is back to normal.).  Supposedly this can be solved by removing the gauge cluster and resoldering some connections in the back...

Twice in the past year or two, I've also had the issue where all of a sudden there was no speed indication or the needle jumped around a bit.  I wacked the top of the dash with my fist and all returned to normal.  Go figure, it's only happened twice though, many months apart.

Peter



From: Tony Hoffman 
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 1:25 PM
To: Peter Elias 
Cc: quattro at audifans.com 
Subject: Re: 300K is nothing for an Audi


The VDO guage in my V8Q still ran when the car was parked at 328K. But, it is of course a rarity. I've owned probably 30 European cars with analog VDO odo's, most of them have not worked.

Tony


On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Peter Elias <peter at pcelias.com> wrote:

  I'm not sure whether some of the comments about the 300K odometer are now related to the one shown on Wikipedia, or the one I e-mailed.

  In my case, it is not faked, in fact, I have 2 videos on YouTube that show the odometer on my 1990 Audi 100 turning from 299,999 miles to 300,000 miles while driving, and another one that shows the odometer at 310,686 miles (which happens to be 500,000 kilometers).   In all cases I get out after stopping the car to show people it's real, not photoshopped...

  The videos are at http://www.youtube.com/pcelias60 (it should be the 2nd and 3rd videos on the current list).

  My Audi website is at http://audiphilately.webs.com/myaudi.htm (the links to the YouTube videos are at that site as well).

  And for what it's worth, the car now has 324,300+ miles on it.   And yes, I've wondered as well why Audi would use a "comma" instead of the period on the trip odometer...

  Greetings from Texas!
  Peter 
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