is my A4 possessed....please help
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03-11-2006 | 03:58 PM
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RE: is my A4 possessed....please help
The fuel pump being pressurized as high as it is tends to make a clicking noise when it is going out. On the A4 it is hard to tell, but if you can listen to the fuel filter while the engine is running it will be really loud in the filter if your ear is against it. (your filter is under the car though (A6 it is above the air filter)
Anyway, it is just incredible that you would drive your car after such a serious warning from it as complete shut down with lights. Aluminum block, Aluminum heads, valves that will bend when the timing belt goes, unless you seriously knew about cars, I would never have driven it. Ticking could mean timing belt is about to go, could mean a pulley is headed south (which would jam and snap belts), could mean the oil pump is sludged... Audi could be wrong. My only good word is that the oil light is one of the ones that comes on when you start the car right (I mean that is the oil light you speak of)? So if the car is on, but shut itself off, then it should be reasonable to assume that the oil light would come on. The ticking is concerning.
Well, the best way to go is remember how this felt and what happened, and it is experience you can draw from for any car. I could have said fuel filter, Fuel pump from what you described, because I had a fuel filter clog twice and on the first one I limped about 500 feet all the way home. The second time it shut down once and that was all, but the second I got the car home I told the owner Fuel system is dying. Did you get a stutter? Like in cruise control you could feel it pull, then relax, then pull (ie choppy but not noticeable too much)? That is a sign that fuel delivery is poor.
Anyway, it is just incredible that you would drive your car after such a serious warning from it as complete shut down with lights. Aluminum block, Aluminum heads, valves that will bend when the timing belt goes, unless you seriously knew about cars, I would never have driven it. Ticking could mean timing belt is about to go, could mean a pulley is headed south (which would jam and snap belts), could mean the oil pump is sludged... Audi could be wrong. My only good word is that the oil light is one of the ones that comes on when you start the car right (I mean that is the oil light you speak of)? So if the car is on, but shut itself off, then it should be reasonable to assume that the oil light would come on. The ticking is concerning.
Well, the best way to go is remember how this felt and what happened, and it is experience you can draw from for any car. I could have said fuel filter, Fuel pump from what you described, because I had a fuel filter clog twice and on the first one I limped about 500 feet all the way home. The second time it shut down once and that was all, but the second I got the car home I told the owner Fuel system is dying. Did you get a stutter? Like in cruise control you could feel it pull, then relax, then pull (ie choppy but not noticeable too much)? That is a sign that fuel delivery is poor.
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03-11-2006 | 08:34 PM
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RE: is my A4 possessed....please help
no it ran fine when id start it back up until it would die again.. and i was planning on getting the timing belt done when i sold my other car..the noise is weird because i never heard it until i started having that problem. but ill ask the tech on monday about the oil light coming on and when the car died...oh i just remembered that when the oil light comes on does it make a constant bell noise? its kinda funny that i have 3 cars and cant drive any of them....what a deal!
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