[s-cars] front end 'pop / clunk / clank / boom'

[Mark Strangways]

It was the starter wire tube..
Don't ask me why I know that..

Mark
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Maddock" <keith.maddock at gmail.com>
To: "Krasusky Paul (WQQ2PXK)" <wqq2pxk at ups.com>
Cc: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: [s-cars] front end 'pop / clunk / clank / boom'


> Deja Vu again?  Had same popping problem on my 93 S4 after some front end 
> work.
>
> It had my mechanic stumped until he compressed the front wheels while
> the vehicle was on the lift.
>
> Turns out it was the front anti-roll-bar interfering with something,
> binding intially, and then releasing, hence the pop.  I wish I
> remember exactly what it was - but putting some sort of telltale
> coating on the anti-roll-bar should help pin-point the issue.
>
> Cheers,
> Keith
>
>
> On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 16:24:39 -0500, Krasusky Paul (WQQ2PXK)
> <wqq2pxk at ups.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello my name is Paul and it's been 15 hours 7 minutes since my Quattro
>> broke...
>>
>> I've got a very loud front end pop going on now almost always, as 
>> described
>> above.  Happens when I'm say doing a 3 point turn in reverse and the 
>> wheels
>> go to full lock when at or near stop.  If it doesn't happen then, it will
>> once the wheels are then turned full lock the other way and I begin to go
>> forward again.
>>
>> It's so audible the Biff and Muffy were laughing at me as I backed my POS
>> Audi out of the spot in front of the hoytytoyty MB dealer, actually 
>> echoed
>> off the building.  Rossato says his seems to be doing the same, and as he
>> rightly sums up "it is very disconcerting".  Um, YEAH it is!
>>
>> Here's the rub:  threw the hoar on a lift yest., tech checked everything,
>> all's good in da hood.  WTF?  Bullshit, something's wrong, but what?
>>
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