[s-cars] Locked out of Project S6

[Fred Munro]

Scott;

It may depend on where the car is driven. If it is from the sun belt, the
lube may turn to glue. Here in the rust belt where I live, the pins corrode
into the pin carrier. If you'd like to see what happens to unused lock
cylinders in the land of salt and snow, I can send you some photos of the
corroded locks I've stripped. No lithium lube spray was going to free up
those puppies!
Once freed up, twice yearly application of Audi's lock cylinder lube
G052778A2 and routine use keeps them working fine.
There is another problem these locks can develop as they corrode. The flap
that seals off the keyhole hangs up in the cylinder and doesn't close
completely. This lets water into the cylinder and hastens the internal
corrosion. Sometimes you can free up the flap from outside, sometimes you
have to take the lock apart.

Fred Munro
'97 S6

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: July 8, 2010 3:06 PM
To: walbum1 at verizon.net; s-car-list at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Locked out of Project S6


 get a can of spray white lithium grease with the red squirter attachment,
and go at the locks from the outside.  Pulling lock cylinders apart to lube
them sounds like a lot of unnecessary work.  The 'lube' audi uses from the
factory is long-life, but at the end of it's life it becomes a glue not a
lubricant.  In 20 years of audis, I've never had to pull audi lock cylinders
only to lube the discs...  Repeat twice a year after the first application,
and you should be fine.

HTH and my .02

Scott J
CRL


 

-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Schor <walbum1 at verizon.net>
To: s-car-list at audifans.com
Sent: Thu, Jul 8, 2010 1:32 pm
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Locked out of Project S6












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