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Hi All, Now that I've finally got my recently purchased '81 5+5 back from the mechanic, complete with new windscreen, new tyres, valve grind, new engine mount, new battery, fixed exhaust manifold with new studs, new head gasket (do these count as good sacrifices?) and actually had a chance to drive the thing for more than one day at a time without having to call the mechanic to come and pick it up again while drive the Peugeot to work wondering what the hell I've got myself into, a few questions have arisen. => Poor starting Starts perfectly cold (esp. with the 15 plate battery!). Run it hot then leave it for 10 mins, fine. One hour, fine. Four-ish hours and it seems to flood itself like crazy. Doesn't even cough. Have to disconnect the cold start valve to finally get it working. I do all the right things (only crank for a few seconds at a time, don't use the pedal etc). Leaky cold start valve? Faulty thermo switch? Dud ignition coil? Ideas? => Vibrations Is it absolutely necessary for cars with auto trans's to vibrate uncomfortably while idling at standstill in gear? The mechanics all seem to think so (and they give me a look that says "you fussy bastard") but I don't understand why. I replaced one of the fluid filled mounts with a new part (A$295!) but while that helps at speed (the engine nearly jumped out of the car before, better now but vibrates a lot thru the steering wheel at speeds over 4000 RPM) it hasn't smoothed out the idling. Do I need to replace both mounts? Is the car not tuned properly? Not getting a big enough spark? something wrong with the trans itself? If it's relevant, at idle the 'wobble-rate' is around half the indicated RPM. What can I do? => Windscreen wipers Apart from the fact that they're still set up for left hand drive (very annoying), they're slow. Very slow. Slow enough that if it rains too hard, I think I'll have to pull over. Does anyone have any clues? Rewiring? Rewinding? => Brakes Brakes are lousy! For this country, as with the wipers, the engine bay was not rearranged, meaning the brake master cylinder is still on the passenger side, which results in the loss of any good feel it might have had through the linkages. While you guys all seem to have aftermarket stuff available to you over there, the closest I can get here (easily) is rotors etc for MkI Golf/Rabbit (there's lots here), or MkII Golf (fewer). What parts are interchangeable? Any advice? That's enough for now. Sorry about the length of the post, but there's so little Audi wisdom available here for this model. Take pity on an Audi newbie! Luke <>--luke vinogradov------accident-research-centre---------<> <>-----------------------monash-university----------------<> <>-----------------------lukev@its-menz.cc.monash.edu.au--<>
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