Re: Is it toast?

["Fred Munro" <munrof@isys.ca>]

Hi Chris;

    It sounds like the engine is spinning the transmission and driving the
speedo gear. Check your CV joints.

Fred Munro
'94 S4  93k km

----- Original Message -----
From: <Caholland01@cs.com>
To: <quattro@audifans.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 1999 5:00 PM
Subject: Is it toast?


> I was driving my '90 100 auto briskly through some nice local twisties
> yesterday, and now I think my car is dead.
>
> I rounded a bumpy corner and as I hit the straightaway (at about 45) the
tach
> jumped to the redline and the car started to slow down...and make the most
> god-awful "whooooze kurk kurk kurk kurk kurk" noise from the front
driver's
> side.  I immediately killed the engine and pulled to the side.  I put the
car
> in park and started the engine, hoping everything would be okay.  Engine
> cranked up as normal.  Put car in gear and the car hit the redline, the
> speedo hit 60 mph and the car sat there sounding like a Cuisinart full of
> marbles.
>
> My first guess was a dead tranny, but the car was obviously engaging in
gear.
>  Next guess is a dead CV joint...but this is totally unlike any CV
problems
> I've ever had with any car.
>
> Any guesses?
>
> From the side of the road,
>
> Chris
>