[s-cars] Coolant Leak

[Douglas Landaeta]

Yep, replace with the correct or dealer hose. There's tight access, but the right 1/4 drive universal and extensions and its reachable to remove and reclamp in a new one.

Very glad to hear you were able to keep this one from the wife! I've proved Audi UrS4 reliability to the family through diligent pro-active preventive maintenance - so I used to get the other complaint about too much time and money with my pearl siren goddess.

I'm fortunate though, at 140k, I'm slightly behind the curve. If ya'll have a spat of issues, I usually can fix'em before they fail on me.

Doug
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On Mar 22, 2013, at 9:13 AM, "Wylie Bean"<theringmeister at triad.rr.com> wrote:

> Keith
> 
> That is the coolant return line for the turbo. It is not an off the shelf part at your local auto parts store.  If you will look on the quattroworld forums I'm sure you will find information about that hose it is specific to the application.  I have some sections from where I just replaced mine and I will be happy to sell you a portion instead of you having to buy a full meters' worth from your dealer. Let me know.
> 
> Wylie Bean
> theringmeister at triad.rr.com
> 90 cq
> 91 90q20v
> 91 200q20v
> 92 urS4
> 08 Q7
> 
> -----Original message-----
> From: Keith Franchetti <skidfranc at gmail.com>
> To: "s-car-list at audifans.com" <s-car-list at audifans.com>
> Sent: Fri, Mar 22, 2013 10:01:08 EDT
> Subject: [s-cars] Coolant Leak
> 
> Hi All-
> 
> Family trip from VT to Boston was made interesting this weekend.  When we
> shut the car off upon arriving in Boston, my daughter pointed out a hissing
> sound, which led to my noticing a small river of coolant coming from under
> the car.
> 
> Turns out, there was a thin stream, but spraying pretty hard, coming from a
> pinhole in a line I never would have guessed contained coolant.  It's a
> short rubber hose (6" or so?) running under the fuel rail area and also
> near (under also, possibly) the coolant manifold.  Odd thing is that when
> the car is warm and running, the leak is a pretty slow drip.  It's when the
> car is shut down that it becomes a much harder, steady stream.  If I loosen
> the res. cap, that slows it back to a slow drip.
> 
> Anyway, I'm hoping to pull the line tomorrow and just replace with
> something from my local parts store.  But I wanted to check and see if
> anyone has ever had a similar leak, or knows why it would be worse when car
> is off.  And also if the consensus would be I need to get a part number and
> replace with a "real" part, Thanks in advance.
> 
> PS- I managed to get the family home to VT without my wife knowing there
> was a chance we'd be stranded . . . . again.  You all might remember our
> Thanksgiving Day fiasco with the loose spark plug giving way, and the rest
> of that day spent in a Greyhound station.  This would have been a
> resounding strike 2.  And in this game, you definitely only get 2 strikes!
> 
> Keith Franchetti
> Burlington VT
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