[V8] ....gone for two weeks.

[Roger M. Woodbury]

Through most of the summer I let the V8 sit in the garage.  It needed new
front shocks and I had too much to do to just drop in new inserts.  Finally
I got that little job done.

 

When I started the car to test drive it with the new inserts, I found the
throttle wouldn't close and idle was stuck around eleven hundred rpm.  I
could "kick down" the idle by stabbing the accelerator with my foot, but
after driving the car a few miles, when coming to a halt at a stop sign, the
high idle was still there.  

 

I figured that maybe the cruise control rod failure was at hand, but the
cruise control is inop in my car, so that made little sense.  I took off the
aircleaner and inspected the throttle linkages and everything else that I
could see and everything seemed normal.

 

I drove the car some more, and the next couple of days took the car out,
including a couple of runs across Pinkham's Flat at about warp six.   

 

Suddenly the idle was back to normal, and the car was running perfectly.
Fuel miles as it always has been for me, and no other issues have appeared.
I drive the car at least every other day now, at least enough to get it
warmed up to normal operating temperature..ten to twenty miles.  I have
therapy for my black iron disease three days each week at Gold's Gym in
Bangor which is a 55 mile round trip for the V8, and it is very happy being
driven regularly.

 

I think the biggest single issue with these cars is that they need to be
driven often, and when they are not driven regularly, the Audi Gods will
cause any little electrical or mechanical gizzie that is at all weak to let
you know your life choices MUST include exercising the V8.

 

Roger

 

P.S.  I am not a religious person, but I truly do believe in the Audi Gods.