[s-cars] new car - a few misc quesitons

[Robert Rossato]

Welcome to the club, Chuck.

Not sure on the filters as I've always gotten them via mail order.  If
you're looking to absolutely do the oil change this weekend then maybe
your dealer is your best bet for now and then buy a bunch mail
order/online to stock up for the future.

The IR keyless entry is pretty anemic to begin with.  I need to be no
more than a few feet away for it to work.  Have you put in new
batteries?  There are 4 batteries in the key.  Also, if it's been longer
than 7 days since the keyless entry has been used, i.e. car parked for a
while, then you need to unlock and lock the car with the key first to
reinitiate it.  But I assume you would have had to that already.  Also,
take a look at Charlie's page on the keyless entry system and there
might be something there that helps.
(http://www.elektro.com/~audi/memory/)  Buying a new would be a last
resort, unless you want a spare.

Your oil gauge is operating properly.  Audis and VWs tend to run fairly
high oil pressures.  Obviously this will be dependant on the viscosity
of oil you use, but typically it would be above 5 bar.  Given the high
pressures it always baffled me as to why Audi always spec'd out a 5 bar
gauge when normal operating pressures are higher than that.  I've seen
VW use both 5bar and 10bar gauges.  My VW Corrado VR6 has a 10 bar gauge
standard and it typically runs around 8 bar at cruising rpms and drops
down to about 2 bar at idle.

Good luck with your new to you car.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com 
> [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Charles Rose
> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 9:10 PM
> To: S-CAR-List at audifans.com
> Subject: [s-cars] new car - a few misc quesitons
> 
> 
> So I bought my first audi yesterday.  A 1993 S4, silver with 
> black interior
> and I absolutely love the car.  It's got 138k miles and a few 
> tasteful mods
> including mtm stage 1 ecu, stromung exhaust, and rs4 replicas. 
> 
>  
> 
> Anyway, I've been reading just about all the emails on the 
> list for the past
> couple weeks to learn all I can about the car.  I want to 
> change my oil and
> oil filter this weekend.  From what I've read on the list recently, I
> figured I'd go with the mobil 1 5w40 suv if I can find it and 
> if not I guess
> the regular mobil 1 0w40 and for the filter im gonna go with 
> the Mann w
> 730/19.  My question is where can I find these oil filters? I 
> called around
> to a few local places and they did not stock them.  Do I have 
> to get it from
> a dealer to get them locally or are online stores the only 
> sure sources?
> 
>  
> 
> The keyless entry doesn't seem to work.  I was only given one 
> key with the
> car, I called the stealership and they wanted $102 for a new 
> keyless entry
> key, is there anyway around paying that to make my keyless entry work?
> 
>  
> 
> Also the oil pressure gauge normally shows 2 bar at idle and 
> goes to near 5
> during most driving.  However when I am above say 3k rpm it 
> seems like it is
> as far past 5 as it can go.  Is it normal for the oil 
> pressure to be this
> high? like it seems to be spiked as high as it can go 
> sometimes.  Could this
> possibly be due to too much or too little oil? I haven't 
> checked how much
> oil there is yet.
> 
>  
> 
> Any help is appreciated,
> 
> -Chuck