[s-cars] RE: Did you fix your car?

[Robert Pastore]

A few weeks after I purchased my s6 Avant (Jan, 01 w/140K on the odometer),
I thought for sure it needed a head gasket.   The condensate cloud was much
bigger than I'd  ever experienced. The car ran fine with none of the typical
head gasket symptoms.   I talked to Chris Semple about it, and he advised
"don't be too quick to pull a 20V head".   Since then I've modded the car a
lot, and just forgotten about the cloud -- it just went away.  I don't know
if it was the change in weather, or pulling the stock turbo and installing
the rs2, but the "problem" is gone.
Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Rossato [mailto:bob.rossato at att.net]
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 9:54 PM
To: Fred Munro; 'Walsh, Edward'
Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com
Subject: RE: [s-cars] RE: Did you fix your car?


> It almost sounds like a condensate cloud. This is no stranger to us Canuks
> on winter days - the car will "smoke" a long time at idle when cold, but
> driving off warms up the exhaust and the condensate cloud
> vanishes ( except
> at 40 below, but that's a different story). Unless your engine is making a
> lot of water ( or pulling coolant) you shouldn't get this on a warm day,
> which brings us back to the coolant issue.
>
> Fred Munro
> '94 S4

That's why I was thinking it might be a coolant leak into the exhaust side
of the turbo, if that's even possible.

Bob


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