RE: '85 5000S Turbo: Ignition/electrical problem

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

Loren,
Did you pull the codes? That's the first and most important thing to do.

BTW, if, after making you spend $475 without effect, they simply
"suggest the car may never start again", then they are *idiots*. Take
your car away from them and we'll try to figure out what's wrong.

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:	Loren Porter [SMTP:lorenp@dwxmail.com]
> Sent:	Sunday, March 22, 1998 7:34 AM
> To:	quattro@coimbra.ans.net
> Subject:	'85 5000S Turbo:  Ignition/electrical problem
> 
> This appeared to be a somewhat serious electrical problem so I took
> the car
> into the local Audi dealer here in Des Moines, IA.  They told us it
> would
> cost $475 for a used control unit from NY and that once they ordered
> it,
> they could not send it back.  They suggested that instead of ordering
> the
> part immediately, to wait for another 5000S to arrive for repairs so
> they
> could try its working control unit in my car.  The idea of swapping
> parts
> was to prevent spending the $475 for nothing.
	[...] 
> We went to pick the car up, paid for the repairs and went out
> to start the car.  I turned the key and the same problem occurred.
> The
> service manager tried to start the car several times, and let it crank
> for
> long periods of time with not one sign of any ignition.  He indicated
> the
> car was started three times earlier that day and was running
> perfectly.  It
> appears that another control unit has possibly been damaged.  Another
> unit
> will arrive next week, but it appears this may happen yet again.  This
> does
> not make sense.
	[...]
	They suggest the car may never start again.

> -Loren Porter
> Court Avenue Networks