RE: New Recall, A4 engine...

[Aleksander Mierzwa <alex@matrix.com.pl>]

The vibration damper is the thing bolted to the front of the crankshaft
together with the v-belt pulleys. Engine does not have to come off to
replace it.

Aleksander Mierzwa
Warsaw, Poland
mailto:alex@matrix.com.pl
87 Audi 5000CS turbo (mine)
88 Renault Medallion wagon (mom's)
91 mountain bike (just in case both cars broke at the same time :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Perniklas Eriksson [SMTP:perniklas.eriksson@abc.se]
> Sent:	Monday, December 29, 1997 11:25 PM
> To:	quattro@coimbra.ans.net
> Subject:	New Recall, A4 engine...
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Got a recall for the airbag in my '95 A4TQ at the 17 dec and I didn't
> believe my eyes when I got another recall at the 23 dec, this time it
> is
> the engine!!!
> 
> It says it's an (I don't know how to translate it from swedish, but
> I'll
> try) "vibrationdamper" (or something like that) mounted on the
> crankshaft
> that doesn't  come up to standard. It can cause engine damage!!! (And
> I who
> tortured the little poor thing down the autobahn to Ingolstadt,
> Stuttgart
> and Wolfsburg (to Audi, Porsche and VW museum) this summer.)
> 
> I guess they have to take the engine out of the car to fix it. I
> wonder
> what more they are going to damage when they do that...
> 
	[...]
> Perniklas Eriksson, Ystad, Sweden.
> 
> 
> '95 A4 1.8 TQ