S4 Steering Click/Clunk Noise, Cracked Body mount!

[Scott Mockry <scottmo@teleport.com>]

I was checking out a 1992 S4 this afternoon, which had some loose feeling
to the steering and some clunk/clicking noise coming from the rack when I
turned the wheel back and forth with the engine off. 

I ran across a rather disturbing problem, the drivers side sheetmetal mount
area  where the steering rack is bolted to, is cracked all the way through
in two places where the nuts are tacked on the back side. Looks like some
welding and re-enforcing are going to be required.

Those people who recently complained of a clicking/clunking noise may want
to take a close look at this mounting area for this problem. I suspect that
some 5000/200 vehicles could also have this problem.

HTH
Scott Mockry