Re: '88 5kCD questions

["Stefan Bendevis" <audiman1@email.msn.com>]

Fellow Audi fanatic,
    I own a 1987 5kcdq and the stalk in it does the same things except for
the high beams.  I think that these cars shared the combo switch with the
wagons and pushing down the stalk would wash the rear glass.

Stefan Bendevis, Audiman1@msn.com
1987 5000 CD Quattro (1.8 bar, 3" exhaust, soon to have bypass valve)

-----Original Message-----
From: Horch, August <Horch.August@tci.com>
To: 'Quattro' <quattro@coimbra.ans.net>
Date: February 16, 1998 10:52 AM
Subject: '88 5kCD questions


>OK, so I finally drove my new (to me) car last night.  Gotta question
>about the windshield squirters.  On the stalk, the windshield stalk is
>different than my current '84 5k, and my old '87 TQ.  This one pulls
>towards me, pushes away from me, and has a button on the end like a
>cruise control set button.  I was told by the previous owner that the
>squirters didn't work.  I pulled the stalk towards me, nothing happened.
>I pushed the stalk away from me, and the high beams came on (there ya go
>Scott!!)  I pushed the button on the end, & the thing squirted bug juice
>clear over the roof & soaked my girlfriend standing behind the car.
>Happy Valentine's Day, hon...  There is no owners manual in the car, so
>I don't know how the thing is supposed to work.  It's Canadian, and has
>the ultra-squirter option (high-intensity washer system?)  Anyhow, is
>the stalk supposed to flip forward & backwards, or is it busted?  Anyone
>have an owners manual for an '88 5000CD TQ?
>
>-August
>