fun with 306k '88 90Q

laraa at sympatico.ca laraa at sympatico.ca
Wed Jul 2 07:51:40 PDT 2014


I second. 

Huw, that 306k miles is just about 6k miles from the famous half a million km milestone. Keep on motoring indeed !

Louis-Alain



-----Message d'origine-----
De : quattro [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com] De la part de Kent McLean
Envoyé : 1 juillet 2014 10:26
À : quattro at audifans.com
Objet : Re: fun with 306k '88 90Q

Huw Powell wrote:
> So I drilled a hole and soldered a wire from the speedo +12 terminal 
> to a large trace area on the other side of the glitch and reinstalled. 
> Yay, idiot lights, tach, and my friendly "OK" were all back!
...
> when on my third search in the lovely 91 dF weather I found that the 
> connector for the charcoal canister had popped out of the intake boot.
> Pushed it back in and all is happy again!

I nominate Huw for the Most Patient Award.  I gave up fighting my Audis a year ago, and am quite happy with my VW TDI, which has given me a lot fewer headaches.

--
Kent McLean
'02 VW Beetle TDI, and a lot of former Audis including Bad Puppy



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