RE: grinding sound in rain - '91 200q

["Livolsi, Stephane" <livols1@investorsgroup.com>]

Hope this doesn't offend you, but could it possibly just  be the rain
funneling from your tires up into the wheel wells and/or engine
compartment? Have you changed tires lately?

Stephane Livolsi
180 Yorston St
Williams Lake, BC, V2G 3Z1
ph 250-392-2637
fax 250-392-2693

'86 5KTQ stock (if you don't know what it means, you aren't in the club)


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>From: 	Gaidos, A.[SMTP:agaidos@got.net]
>Sent: 	November 7, 1999 4:43 PM
>To: 	Quattro
>Subject: 	grinding sound in rain - '91 200q
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>All,
> I was driving the '91 200q home in a heavy down poor doing about 55-60 mph
>when I started hearing a grinding like sound from the driver's side front of
>the car. It would come and go with no regularity. Everything seemed fine -
>brakes worked, engine was running fine, etc..
> Once in a while it would start coming from the center of the engine
>compartment too. This was very much out of the blue having never made such
>sounds before so it may be something related to the rain? It seemed to
>happen more when I lifted off the throttle and quite down when I'd get back
>into it.
> I even switched the ABS on and off wondering if that was the problem. Every
>odd.
>Thanks
>Anton J. Gaidos, III
>
>1991 200 quattro 20 valve Turbo
>1990 90 quattro 20 valve
>1985 quattro Turbo Coupe - Top 26 of the Century?
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