[s-cars] '92 S4 won't start

[Robin Stoddard]

Sounds to me like the shop sees an older car and to them that just means $$$$.
Question: how confident are you in your mechanical capabilities?  If you feel like this is something that you can work on yourself, then just say thank you to the shop and have your car towed home.  With the help of the folks on this list, I would just say work on the car yourself and gain some knowledge.  It is an older car and “stuff” like this will happen again; so the more confident you are in working on your own car, the longer you will keep it around.  Not to say that all shops are out to gouge guys with older cars as there are some very competent shops out there, but the majority of shops haven’t got a clue about these cars.  

I have been working on cars since I was 14 (now 47) and my S6 was a pleasure to work on.

Good luck!
Robin


On Jan 3, 2014, at 6:15 PM, tedebearp at yahoo.com wrote:

> The little rubber hose under the intake manifold popped a leak last week, about 35 miles from home.  I topped off with water and hoped to make it home.  Unfortunately, the leak got worse and not wanting to blow the head gasket or warp the head, I had the car towed to a nearby garage (otherwise it would have been $250 to tow it home). 
> 
> The shop repaired the coolant hose.  However, they said the car won't start, though it cranks fine.  The car was running fine when I parked it, and they drove the car off the flatbed truck and into the shop last week.
> 
> They think it's the crank sensor and said there's no signal from it.  They speculated that coolant got everywhere and shorted out the sensor.  They said it's behind the timing belt so they'd need to take all of that off to replace the sensor.  While they're at it, they'd do a timing belt job.  Total cost is about $1500.  I said I'd think about it and get back to them.
> 
> Does this sound right to you guys?  I think it's the cam sensor, not the crank sensor, since they said this sensor is behind the timing belt.  I replaced the CPS when I did the timing belt at 133k miles, which was 50k miles and probably 7 years ago.
> 
> Is it possible that there's a shorted ECU fuse?
> 
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