Re: my new ur-q - needs help of course.

["John Corbishley" <gtr1@traverse.com>]

Check Current Track #15 going into the fuse box.
-----Original Message-----
From: MHLIGGINS@aol.com <MHLIGGINS@aol.com>
To: caliban@sharon.net <caliban@sharon.net>; quattro@coimbra.ans.net
<quattro@coimbra.ans.net>
Date: Sunday, October 25, 1998 11:47 PM
Subject: my new ur-q - needs help of course.


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> Based on your description one possibility for the bucking behavior is low
>voltage.  If the brushes on the alternator are right at the limit, the
>alternator will only charge intermittently.  This would let the battery go
to
>a low state, which definitely does cause the bucking bronco behavior you
>mention.  (Having been through three dead alternators, plus one with a bad
>brush, I am WELL familiar with the symptoms.)
> As to the too-hot-to-restart, did you hear an afterrun fan kick on to cool
>the engine when you shut it down?  I am assuming that the older Audis had
the
>afterrun fan, but not the coolant recirc function.  If the fan did not run,
>the system would have continued to absorb heat from the engine.  Which
would
>have allowed it to reach the described conditions.
> Keep in mind that these comments are from a 4K/5K driver, not an
experienced
>UrQ owner.  I'm addressing the systems I'd check in the same circumstances.
>
> Later.
> --ml
>