[s-cars] Quoth Bones, "He's dead, Jim."

[Ned Ritchie]

If it was a 200 I'd say pour the water out of the computer & dry it out
:)  Water will find its way down from the windshield.
Ned

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Hi Yall,

Went for a holiday pleasure ride (of about 225-250 miles one way) up to
the
Canaan Valley in Tucker County, WV.  Nice trip up there.  Shortly after
leaving home I stopped for fuel, 93 octane, at a station never before
visited and filled the tank.  On the way home the car was running fine
until we got to the exact center of Nowhere, WV.  150 miles from home
and
at least 20 miles from ANYWHERE except, fortunately, one small home
beside
the road at the bottom of the mountain where we broke down.  No tools of
any significance, no spare parts, nowhere to work on the car.  Cell
phones
won't work in the area - too far from any repeater.  No Audi dealer or,
for
that matter, ANY "furrin" car dealer, anywhere in the region and even if
there were they would have been closed due to the holiday.  The
homeowner
was home and very helpful!  We got off the road and managed, after
several
unfruitful calls in the general area, to get hold of a friend down here
who
operates a body shop and wrecker service.  A three hour wait and he
arrived, loaded us up, and brought us home.  Got here three hours later
at
midnight with a $300 towing bill.  :-(

The car is now in my garage, up on jack stands, and I've been
underneath.  Pulled the MM hose.  It's OK.  No splits.  Holds
pressure.  Clamps were secure.  The car acts like it's not getting
fuel.  There is fuel pressure at both ends of the fuel filter.
Therefore,
it says here, the filter is not blocked and the fuel pump is working.
The
other most likely problem is then a large vacuum leak - possibly a split
Michelin Man hose.  That has been eliminated.  No other obvious
induction
system openings were seen.

The car:  '95 urS6 with MTM 1+ chip and 3 bar PT - Stromung exhaust (not
that that matters).  180K+ miles.

Symptoms:  After running fine for quite a while we hit several fairly
heavy
rainstorms.  A little later the engine started to feel like it was
getting
just a little sluggish - a bit like it was "lugging" in too high a gear
for
the speed we were travelling.  It was in the correct gear but that's how
it
felt.  Over a minute or two it lost more and more power.  It would idle
-
not well - but it did idle.  I managed to turn it around halfway up the
mountain we were climbing and to coast back down the mountain to where
we
found a little help - a telephone.  By then it would no longer idle.
Now
it will not start.

Possibilities which occur to me include:  1. vacuum leak.  (MM hose
ruled
out - it's solid.)  2. failed PSO - if its the PSO it doesn't feel like
an
earlier PSO failure.  It was a gradual loss of power, not a sudden one
cylinder miss.  3.  coil failure - doesn't feel like an earlier coil
failure we had a couple of years back, either.  4. out of fuel - Fuel
gauge
showed just under 1/2 tank and we had traveled only about 220 or so
miles
on the tank since filling it up.  It didn't run out of fuel.  5. water
or
other contamination in fuel?  We were going up a fairly steep mountain
when
the problem developed.

It doesn't feel or sound like just a miss in one cylinder.  What it
feels
like is fuel starvation or possibly contaminated fuel.  (From that
strange
fuel source.)

Any additional suggestions?
____

The Bottom Line on Iraq:  It's the bottom line.

Bob
*****
  Robert L. Myers 304-574-2372
  Rt. 4, Box 57, Fayetteville, WV 25840 USA WV tag Q SHIP
  '95 urS6 Cashmere Grey - der Wunderwagen  ICQ 22170244
  http://www.cob-net.org/church/pvcob.htm
*****
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