Re: Stange sounds

[Robert Myers <rmyers@wvit.wvnet.edu>]

Mike,

I had a similar rattle in my '89 200TQ.  I had our local muffler shop 
braze the heat shield back onto the cat.  $5 out the window.  Rattle 
still gone after two years.

Did I win the battle of "mine is bigger" than yours?  :-)

On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, Michael Spiers wrote:

> > 	On my '91 200 Q there is a loud kind of grinding rattle that occurs
> > during 1st, 2nd, and a little of 3rd gear.  It has gotten progressively
> > louder over the past couple of thousand miles.
> 
> I had the same type of rattle on my TQ a year & a half ago.  Two Audi dealers &
> three transmission specialists told me that the synchro's in the tranny were
> shot, better drop the trans & put in a new one.  $3,000 out the door.  Took it
> to a place in No. VA, they put in a new catalytic converter, suddenly my
> synchro's were all better.  $500 out the door.  YMMV.
> 
> -- 
> -Mike
> mikes@specnet.com
> mks107@psuvm.psu.edu
> 87 5000CS TQ - Metropolitan Washington, D.C.
> 84 5000S - Boulder, Colorado
> 90 80 - Bethesda, Maryland
> 


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  Bob
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