frank@zk3.dec.com wrote:
>
> >Anyway - turns out the water pump was beginning to go out, which affected
> >the timing belt, yada yada, $650.00, yada, yada - now it's fine. What a
> Sounds bogus to me. I don't know what Audi's t belt replacement interval
> is, but for most makes it's around 60K mile I believe. That means it should
> last at least to, say, 80K, shouldn't it?
That's the belt. The problem is that, sometimes, the water pump has
a habit of crapping out before then. If it seizes, it'll take the timing
belt out in short order.
FWIW, the water pump on my 1993 90 starting "chirping" somewhere around
58k miles. It steadily got worse until I did the timing belt, etc. around
63k miles.
At least one other lister has had a V6 water pump "chirping" which
did seize on him...
-Chris
1993 90CS 66k miles