Water Pump seized at 107k miles stripping 14 teeth off the timing belt.
Check engine light on. Diagnostics indicates oxygen sensor.
Speedometer & tachometer have a life of their own.
Driver seat bum warmer not working.
I had the 90k mile service performed right after acquiring the car at a local independent Audi shop. Basically amounted to a tune up, oil change, and new oxygen sensor. Cost was $400.00. I figured that was fairly reasonable. I had them check the condition of the timing belt, which showed fairly new. Records indicate that it was changed at 70k miles.
Water pump seized while driving along about 30 mph, at about 2200 rpm. Haven't really had a chance to check damage to valves; hoping not a whole lot of damage.
I miss my Audi. It's been sitting in the garage for about 5 months now - don't really have the money to fix it at this time.
An incredible car to drive. Yes, around town acceleration is somewhat sluggish, but definitely comes into its own out on the open road. Have had the cruise set at 125 mph for about 20 miles. Wonderful, secure feeling. Garnered a lot of dirty looks from other drivers, but oh well...
Valves will be bad! This is high compression, low valve clearance engine! Repairing this all aluminum motor is not for the faint of heart! You will need a serious bank roll and a VERY GOOD engine re-builder.
Btobsharpe@yahoo.com.
The previous comment is wrong on this engine, the block is actually cast iron :) Which adds serious durability bottom ends of these motors. This repair of the broken timing belt should just be standard. Guaranteed you will have bent valves, the big problem is if the pistons got punctured. Your best solution is usually to just have a used motor put in rather than try to correct this madness. Plus you can replace all gaskets and the timing belt with the motor on a stand which is much easier and less time consuming. You'll essentially have a new motor at this point and much less maintenance down the road. I've even seen people dropping the 4.2 v8 from the a8 and s8 in, I don't know if this requires a transmission change as well though.
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