Any guesses on B8 A4 U.S. engine offerings?
02-14-2007, 09:39 PM
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at 20k miles mine has improved also...
But there wasn't much of an idle noise to start with. One thing I noticed right away is when one time I tried 0ct 89 gas and my engine performance was poor, including rough idle, compared to oct 91.
02-14-2007, 09:56 PM
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Audi builds great cars, the U.S. fiasco was a dumb human error...
My dads 87 Audi 5000s which he gave it to me(my first car) with 130k miles was very solid and reliable. It's how you drive and maintain the car. Ya parts are expensive, but thats the case with many well made cars today.
02-15-2007, 05:01 AM
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Simple
Driver thinks he/she has the foot on the brakes when in fact it's on the gas then shifts it into drive or reverse. Think of it as doing a neutral drop in an automatic but you're not expecting it. Panic then sets in then you step harder on the "brakes" only to go faster. (News programs like these still do stupid things, NBC did one recently to try and prove Nascar fans were racists and Nascar found out later.)
60 Minute then picked up on this then severely twisted the situation. The 5000S, with the gas floored and the brakes fully depressed, the car wouldn't even go anywhere which really disproved this. However they took a drill and other things to alter the engine to overcome this if I recall, thus portraying it as something that could and would happen.
It all boiled down to driver error, and the breakthrough here for Audi was a lady pinned her son against a wall, but only to confess to her friend that she did hit the gas instead of the brakes. Well her friend ratted her out and that was the end of the problems but the damage was done to Audi.
Audi put out a recall for their cars to install the shift-lock, which is now present on all cars today.
Parents had an 86 5000S and do admit that I made that same mistake, fortunately, the shift-lock was installed a week prior to my mistake, otherwise I would have gone backwards full throttle into a house across the street where a cop lived in.
60 Minute then picked up on this then severely twisted the situation. The 5000S, with the gas floored and the brakes fully depressed, the car wouldn't even go anywhere which really disproved this. However they took a drill and other things to alter the engine to overcome this if I recall, thus portraying it as something that could and would happen.
It all boiled down to driver error, and the breakthrough here for Audi was a lady pinned her son against a wall, but only to confess to her friend that she did hit the gas instead of the brakes. Well her friend ratted her out and that was the end of the problems but the damage was done to Audi.
Audi put out a recall for their cars to install the shift-lock, which is now present on all cars today.
Parents had an 86 5000S and do admit that I made that same mistake, fortunately, the shift-lock was installed a week prior to my mistake, otherwise I would have gone backwards full throttle into a house across the street where a cop lived in.
02-15-2007, 05:07 AM
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Found a site that says 2.0T and 3.6 for UK
<ul><li><a href="http://www.millteksport.com/new.model.release.dates.cfm">http://www.millteksport.com/new.model.release.dates.cfm</a</li></ul>