[urq] RE : Intermittent no start - pretty sure I have the fix

[Louis-Alain Richard]

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> De : urquattro at comcast.net [mailto:urquattro at comcast.net]

> Solution? (Need I say it?) RELAY THE SOLENOID. I relayed mine
headlight-
> style off the alternator using 12-gauge power wire, 30-amp NO relay,
20-
> amp inline fuse, and the original power wire as the signal. Has worked
> like a dream ever since. Incidentally, I needlessly spent $130 on a
> rebuilt starter before I figured out what what really causing the
problem.

*****OK good idea, and cheap to implement. Where did you put the relay ?



> As an immediate solution, opening the hood for about 30 seconds after
you
> stop when you know it's going to be a short one will allow a LOT of
the
> lower engine bay heat to dissipate through convection and keep the
> solenoid from just sitting there and cooking (as much). For a while I
was
> actually leaving the hood open with the car locked while I ran into
the
> grocery store for beer and cigarettes...

*****Yeah, I though of this, but I don't want to have people say "These
Audis, they have always problems... :_) 


> PS- LA, glad you hear you are okay. I have many relatives in Quebec
and I
> have traveled that road several times myself.

*****The scariest part is that overpass was the one we (little Estelle
and me) were using everyday to go to her daycare... But as I told Honey,
Saturday morning, when I passed under it, I was going really, really
fast... and then we nervously laughed for looonnnggg time ! 

see:
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Site=CP&Date=20060930&Ca
tegory=CPGALLERIE&ArtNo=930001&Ref=PH&Params=Itemnr=15