Re: A/C intermittent?

[Robert Myers <rmyers@inetone.net>]

Sam,

What you are seeing is Bill Gate's and MicroSoft's influence on Team
Doorhandle (AC division).  After a general protection fault you must
reboot.  :-)

At 05:50 AM 8/2/99 -0600, Clough, Samuel wrote:
>Ok, here's my story.  I just want to see if there are any BTDTs out there.
>The car is a 95 A6Q.  This weekend, I invite some friends over and I've been
>trying to talk him into buying an A4 instead of a Maxima.  Anyway, he wants
>to go for a ride in the A6.  So, we're on our way to the restaurant in stop
>and go traffic (mostly stop) and the car's doing fine and it's about 97
>outside according to the car.  Anyway, I only have the air set on 76, but
>it's running pretty cool.  He's messing around asking me about the car and
>pushes the climate control down to 71.  No big deal, except about 3 or 4
>minutes later the air coming out of the vents is not cool anymore.  It's
>like the car is on vent and the compressor is not running.  I push the
>little snowflake off and then on and nothing happens.  The car itself, is
>running cool in the normal place on the temp gauge and the oil gauge is cool
>also, somewhere around 100 C.  Of course, I don't see how changing the temp
>could have anything to do with this problem but it is the only event that
>happened.  By the time we're too the restaurant, everybody is sweating which
>is a little embarrassing.  When we get out of the restaurant and back in the
>car, voila!  The air is cold again.  This was on Saturday and we drove the
>car the rest of the weekend in temps (according to the car) from 97 to 102
>deg and never again had problems with the air.  Now, this happened to me
>once before in Pennsylvania.  No matter how low I turned the climate control
>I kept sweating.  After we stopped somewhere and started again I had cold
>air.  This is very bizarre, but it is an Audi and has so far been absolutely
>trouble free so I guess it's my turn.  Any idea what could cause this
>symptom?  The car's still under warranty so I figured I would take it in but
>with my dealership experiences, there's a much greater chance that someone
>on the list has a clue what's wrong that them.
>TIA,
>Samuel
>95 A6Q (A little moody)
>
>Samuel W. Clough
>INVESCO Retirement Plan Services
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   Bob
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