[V8] Engine Trouble (v6 - but still Audi)

[Kent McLean]

Jason Wilkerson wrote:
 > Now I'm starting to think that it doesn't have compression because the engine
 > is just toast from no oil.  Any thoughts?  BTDT?

BTDT. :(  It may be something else (and I hope it is), but when my '99 A4 with 
the 30V V6 was run low on oil [1], it apparently f'd up the rings and left it 
with no compression. My clue was the no-start with a fast turn-over by the 
starter.  I'd do a compression check first, wet and dry, before anything else. 
Good luck.

[1] I was commuting 1500 miles/week and missed checking it one or two weekends
over Thanksgiving holiday. I got no complaints from the car, but then the LED 
driver info display was dead, so if it was complaining, I wouldn't see it.

-- 
Kent McLean
1990 V8 w/5-speed and other mods
1991 200 TQA #3, with mods
1999 A4 Avant, V6 Tiptronic
gone: '91 200 TQA x2, '94 100 S Avant, '89 200 TQ "Bad Puppy"