Brake system warning on first start.

[Larry Smeins <lsmeins@ball.com>]

>Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 12:27:05 -0500
>From: Leah and David Mueller <muellerl@cadvision.com>
>Subject: Re: Brake system warning on first start. Attn Colin Barfoot

>Colin, sorry to miss your first posting.  We had an 86 5000s that did
that.
>It was an internal leak in the Bomb.  It would only do what you
describe the
>first start of the day if it did it at all.  If you have someone else
start
>the car, and stand and watch the resevoir at first start, you will
likely
>see the fluid level fluctuate.  How long it is safe to go with an
internal
>leak in the pressure accumulator, I don't know. 

>David 

My 87 5KCST started doing the warning light after start up soon after I
bought it.  I asked the dealer where I got the car, Stammler Porsche
Audi, about the symptom and they said it was bleed down of the
accumulator and was very expensive to fix.  Their advice was: "if the
brakes are working OK don't worry about it".  I've been driving the car
with this characteristic for roughly 150,000 miles with no problem.  It
is getting more frequent as time goes on and I'll probably be replacing
the bomb in the future but Stammler's  advice has gotten me a long way
without spending my hard earned money.

Larry
If you don't care where you are, you ain't lost.