[s-cars] Poor gas mileage

[Evan Levine]

The T-stat is not hard to get to without doing an entire timing belt! This
is maybe a 1 hour job including a coolant flush afterwards, starting with
nothing taken apart. If you look down under the front area of the intake
manifold you'll see the 2 bolts that have to come out.

Evan


On 12/8/05, Sean Douglas <quattro20v at telus.net> wrote:
>
> Howdy Graham!
>
> I'm from Canada (Vancouver) and have a 1997 S6 too with 178,000 km on
> it. What city are you from?
>
> 170,000 miles on an original O2 sensor is way too long. O2 sensors
> should be changed every 100,000 km and the t-stat is normally done at
> the t-belt/water pump change as its easily accessible. Does your car
> take a long time to heat up or is it always cold. Mine gets to 90
> celcius pretty quickly.
>
> Also, I get pretty much 500 km on 60 litres, that's 75% hwy / 25% city
> driving. That's even with the RS2 stuff!
>
> Sean Douglas
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
> > [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Graham Hicks
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 8:30 PM
> > To: Mark Strangways; Alvin Labonite; S-CAR-List at audifans.com
> > Subject: Re: [s-cars] Poor gas mileage
> >
> >
> > Tell me more about the thermostat.
> >   I live in Canada but my '97 S6 (we Canadians got the C4
> > chassis until  1997) is getting about the same mileage
> > (~430kms/60litres).
> >   I am hoping to change the O2 sensor in the spring but my
> > car has over  170,xxxmiles on the original one so I thinks
> > it's due.  The timing  belt and wate pump were changed last
> > month but no mention of the  t'stat. Is it burried down in there too?
> >   Thanks,
> >   Graham
> >
> > Mark Strangways <Strangconst at rogers.com> wrote:  What's the
> > temp gauge say ?
> >
> > Bad T/Stat has fouled many's fuel economy.
> > Ask me how I know :-)
> >
> > Mark S
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Alvin Labonite"
> > To:
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 10:07 PM
> > Subject: [s-cars] Poor gas mileage
> >
> >
> > >I am only averaging between 260-270 miles per fill up of about 16
> > >gallons.
> > >My commute going to and from work is pretty much a crawl for
> > about 45
> > >minutes or more. I'm thinking that's where the problem is.
> > The car hardly
> > >get to see 4th gear on the freeway but I used to see higher
> > numbers than
> > >that a while back. I wonder where the culprit is. Oxygen
> > sensor maybe? But
> > >that was replaced by the PO a year or two ago. hmmm..
> > >
> > > Other than that, the car is running strong. Suggestions?
> > >
> > > TIA
> > >
> > > Alvin
> > > 95 Avant
> > >
> > >
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> > Graham Hicks
> >   UrS6Turbo at Yahoo.ca
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