[s-cars] switch recall?

[Igor Kessel]

Taka,
neither are the '96 S6, yet they are listed too? Hmmm, I am still
puzzled.

BTW, thanks for the offer to help me with the AEB (A4 1.8T) engine. I am
OK. The engine is in pieces, all over the garagge. All 8 ehxaust valves
are bent. I ordered the replacement ones from Rod at TPC (as always), he
had them for $42/ea.

This is the 5th or the 6th Audi engine that I am taking apart and I
can't help but wonder why the hell Audi _STILL_ does not make the
segmented cutouts in the piston crowns for the exhaust valves? At least
in the A4 they had finally gotten enough sence to make these cutouts for
the intake valves, never mind that I don't care about those - they are
dirt cheap in comparison with the sodium filled ehxaust valves.

BTW, when I had first taken my Lada 2105 engine apart back in 1984 (and
that car was the first Lada with a timing belt rather than the chain) I
saw the segmnented cutouts in the piston crowns, made specifically to
accomodate the hanging valves in the event of a belt failure. Now, that
was a Lada, designed 20 years ago! Not exactly a paragon of the
automotive engineering.
And now here I am, 18 years later, bitching about this super-duper
marvel of German engineering, five-valve-per-cylinder my ass, in the
beginning of the 21st Century, where I still have to take the whole
freaking engine apart only because of a stupid belt tensioner ceasing
up. On 40,531 miles!!! Man, am I pissed! And the worst part, Audi
pretends like nothing happened. No oficial recall issued. Turns out that
the AEB engines shear teeth on timing belts from 30kmi to 60kmi. My
aquaintance in Russia sez he once had a batch of 20-some cars with the
timing belts sceased up, all exhaust valves bent. Unlike us here in the
US they started to receive the A4-s beginning with m/y 1995.

Sorry for hte A4 offtopic, folks. At the moment I am elbow-deep in my
wife's car engine.

--
Igor Kessel
two turbo quattros

P.S. I have decided to CC: the A4 list. Folks, if you STILL have not
updated the crappy timing belt tensioners in your 1.8T engines, do it
_NOW_, if not sooner. Search the audiworld archives withe the "tensioner
+valves +bent" in the search and brace yourself for dozens of horror
stories. Alas, the A4 has been so bullit-proof reliable over the past 4
years (a friggin' Honda Accord, only fun to drive) that I have
completely neglected reading about it and have instead concentrated on
my '97 S6. Hence the price I am paying now.


TM wrote:
>
> Igor-
> You're forgetting that your car isn't an official US import- due to
> that, it's probably
> excluded from any VIN ranges issued by AoA.
>
> Taka
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: s-car-list-admin at audifans.com
> [mailto:s-car-list-admin at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Igor Kessel
> Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 10:11 AM
> To: s-car-list at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] switch recall?
>
> Bob Rossato wrote:
>
> > Here is the link.  I think the part numbers listed are for the entire
> > switch assembly, not just the electrical half.
> >
> > Bob
> >
> > http://www.springbreakdaytonabeach.com/vwtech/www.vwwebsource.com/vwte
> > chcont
> > ent/pdf/kbcirc.pdf
>
> Hmm.... neither my m/y, nor my VIN are listed. I wonder if it is because
> of some Audi knocklehead recall campaign manager or because by '97 m/y
> those switches were miraculously cured. I tend to suspect the former
> rather than the latter. After all, my car did have the infamous fuel
> line leak, with only at about 30kmi on the clock.
>
> --
> Igor Kessel
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