Re: 4000 Quattro Question

["Rob Reesor" <reesor@tss.com>]

On Nov 13,  7:02pm, Guillermo S. Christensen wrote:
> Subject: 4000 Quattro Question
>
> I have two questions that I am hoping other Quattro owners may be able to
> address.  First, a few years back while I was in Germany a friend of mine
> who owned a Quattro coupe, would routinely lock the center differential
> when driving at moderately high speeds (approx. 120-140 km/h) on a WET
> autobahn.  This, he claimed, settled the car down and improved braking at
> higher speeds in the wet.  Is doing the same thing a good idea on an '84
> 4000 Quattro (I am a relatively new owner, still waiting for the first
> snowfall to try out the 4wd advantage).
>
> Second question:  Today the odometer in my Audi stopped working (both odo
> and trip meter are kaput, I assume they are connected).  The speedometer
> works OK, although it has for some time "wavered" erratically at the low
> speed (10-20mph) range, but is fine over 20 mph.  Any ideas as to what
> could be wrong with the odometer?  thanks.
>
>
>
>
>-- End of excerpt from Guillermo S. Christensen

The odometer of both my Coupe and my Scirocco did pretty much what yours did.
For the Scirocco, I was lucky enough to buy a complete, working instrument
cluster for $20 from a local wrecking yard. A couple of months later, the
odometer in the "new" one was also broken. I had the Audi's
odometer/speedometer rebuilt by a VDO specialist. The cost was $60 since I
pulled it out myself. Would have been about $80 otherwise. The guy that rebuilt
it claimed that this is a very common problem with VDO odometers (since it
happended to me three times in two years, I can hardly argue). He explained
what was wrong, but I can't really recall exactly. He did, however, say to
never poke the odometer button on a VDO while the car is moving.

-- Rob


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