Re: Help! Smoke from steering column ('92 100)

[Jon Moritz <jmoritz@mail.med.und.nodak.edu>]

Hmmmm

I too have had that happen to me in my 1992 100. It occurred around 80k miles.

I figured :
1) expensive to diagnose
2) expensive to fix
3) let her burn so I can collect the insurance and buy a quattro

It hasn't happened again, so I figure I saved money fixing it and headaches
from the insurance company explaining why I need another car totaled in
less than 2 years.

on a serious note though,  My airbag was replaced during the recall
program.  I wonder if some monkeylad routed a wire or two too close
together for the airbag?

I'm not worried about it, just curious.




> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 12:54:20 -0500 (EST)
> From: Andrew Duane USG <duane@hunch.zk3.dec.com>
> Subject: Re: Help! Smoke from steering column ('92 100)

> Hairy green toads from Mars made robert.shemo@tfn.com say:

> On Saturday, I started my wife's 100 and a wisp of smoke trailed up from
> the wiper switch opening on the steering column. It stopped almost
> immediately and hasn't come back. Her 86 Pontiac Sunbird did the same thing
> and I tore open the steering column to find nothing (the smoke never
> returned, either). I really don't want to open up the steering column in
> the 100 considering the airbag is there and I don't like the idea of
> replacing the multifuction switch if I don't have to.

> Hmmmm.

> Smoke is an important part of many electronic components.
> If you let the smoke out of them, they don't work right any more.

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Jon Moritz
University of North Dakota - School of Medicine
'92 Audi 100 102k mi
In the Audi wasteland of NW Minn/ NE Nodak