[s-cars] fuel smell & the dealer Fixed it?

[Fred Munro]

The fuel line failure occurs at the crimps in the rubber flex line that
connects to the fuel filter. This rubber line is crimped to a steel line
which runs down the firewall, across the car behind the steering rack, and
back up the firewall to the fuel rail.

Initial replacements of this line involved removing the transmission or
steering rack to replace the leaking line with an identical OEM line.

The A6 line runs along the top of the firewall. Audi modified the A6 line
with the proper connector for the UrS fuel rail as the "official" fix to
avoid the long repair times involved with transmission or rack removal. The
"official" repair is to cut off the old steel line and leave it in place,
and install the new line along the top of the firewall.

This is a good thing, as I suspect the new lines will leak in another 10
years or so.

It sounds like you got the "official" fix.

HTH

Fred Munro
'94 S4

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Subject: [s-cars] fuel smell & the dealer Fixed it?


1995.5 S6 Avant
Is anyone sure of what is replaced when the dealer performs the fuel line
recall?
Aren't there three lines between the tank and the strut tower?
Are all three lines in use? The dealer (Jim Ellis, Atlanta) crimped one of
the lines closed and cut off the end......THAT DOESN'T SOUND/LOOK RIGHT!
What is the dealer doing (What they call a repair)?  Simply replacing an
entire line or one end of it? Want to gather all the know how before I
return to TALK! Also found the end that they crimped off, left in the
cowling.

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