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My 87 4000 CS quattro foes (too long)
I am a proud owner of my Audi. I get compliments on it where ever or
whenever I go. On the surface everything is great. It is a nice deep yet
bright Tornado Red with an interior I have never seen in a junk yard or very
few other Audi's on the street. The car only has about 95,000 miles on it
which makes it in the very low mile range.
Underneath the car has a solid foundation and that is the only good thing I
can say about it.
The problem list for this car is growing as I fix the problems. I have seen
most of them on the list but never quite hitting my car on the dot. To start
my car doesn't start well at all. It hates to start when cold and still
hesitates for a few seconds when warm. Problem? A vacuum leak. WHERE? In
one of the 3 billion vacuum lines on this car or at the fuel injectors them
selves. I thought I owned an Audi for some more quite than my Volkswagen.
Doesn't seem we can achieve that either. The fuel pump whines on this car
like nothing else. Everyone tells me to live with it or pay a fortune to have
it fixed so I get used to it and the spedo starts whining away actually more
like grinding.
Everyone loves the heated seats in my car especially when it is below 20
outside. Me I don't get one because the coil is broken everyone says. Then
why does it switch on when I scoot forward on the seat now it does not turn on
at all.
The headlights on this car suck so badly that I can see about 5 feet down the
road maybe 15 with the brights on. If anyone has a good set of DOT
headlights, meaning no rock chips, please let me know mine look like they have
lived through 11 years of Colorado winters without breaking once but just
getting pounded by all the rocks the put on the roads here. I would buy
Euro's but I can't afford them right now. Quattro power is awesome. But I
don't know if I can lock my front diff because I can switch it to lock and it
never lights up. One of you mentioned feeling different when this is locked
and I don't feel any difference at all what could cause this?
The A/C sucks in this car it takes forever to get the air cold and yes it is
charged, on the opposite end the heat in the winter sucks just about the same.
I am used to VW heat I suppose where I can drive to the end of the block and
turn the heat on and it comes out hot so what happened on the Audi's?
There is a small coolant leak somewhere on the car but where I don't know
because you can't see it going anywhere. Head Gasket or is this normal. And
last my ass sits on the ground with only a full tank of gas. This list will
be amended to tomarrow I am sure as today I have fixed the sunroof the
windshield washer and the power antenna and those things only went bad within
the last two weeks.
I love my car enough to care for it and fix it and maintain it but this stuff
is starting to get annoying and the spedo is now going to break I am sure as
the needle is bouncing from 20-40 on a regular basis.
If anyone has any help for me please send it to me I need all I can get.
Brit
87 $$$$ $S quattro
88 $$tta
73 $$$tle