RE: 1992 Audi 100S - System Check Display

["Duff, Ian" <iduff@charter.com>]

Re:wiper blades, the shaft is both tapered and mildly splined. Remove the
nut, don't lose the washer, then tap the hub of the wiper arm with the
plastic handle of a screwdriver. It should pop off due to the loading from
the spring that applies pressure on the windshield. HTH.

Ian Duff, New Bedford, MA
1990 Coupe Quattro

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>From: 	smolin@kerner.com[SMTP:smolin@kerner.com]
>Sent: 	Monday, March 25, 1996 5:37 PM
>To: 	quattro-digest@coimbra.ans.net
>Subject: 	Re: 1992 Audi 100S - System Check Display
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>[begin include from rao (Mar 25, 12:01)]
>> 
>> 	Hmmm -- that has me wondering.  On my '91 200Q, the auto-check
>> 	display starts displaying garbage once in a while, especially
>> 	if the car has been out in the sun a lot.  And I remember that
>> 	one of the cars I looked at (an '89) had the display permanently
>> 	displaying garbage. I suppose it's possible that bad soldering
>> 	could be responsible for this as well ... anyone else see similar
>> 	symptoms on their cars?  (You know, the relatively low-tech
>> 	scheme on my '85 is probably a more robust one).
>> 
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>Yup, my '92 100 CSQ has this problem intermittently. I'm not sure,
>but I think it might be bump related. That is, I go over a bump, and
>motion in the corner of my eye makes me look down, and the display
>shows garbage. It's getting some input, because if I change the radio
>station, the garbage changes. I think it stays bad until I've shut it
>off and restarted.
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>I'm a big fan of high-tech gadgets, but driving this car makes me
>very nervous about all the electronics that can go very expensively
>wrong.
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>By the way, my windshield wipers are positioned wrong (any ideas why?).
>I can remove the nut, but they're still very solidly fixed down. Is there
>some trick, like a clip or somehing holding them on?
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>Steve Molin, amateur praxeologist first class
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