Help identify this and its function
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Help identify this and its function
<center><img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/51524/pic_0183.jpg"></center><p>Hi guys, I need your help. I just got home and heard this terrible sound. I narrow it down to this. The one circled. Since I don't have the Bently, so I don't know what it is or what does it do? Some help please. Thanks.
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Heh, I'll give you the same answer I got when I asked that very same Q and...
...posted that very same picture:
"It's a valve"
OK, kidding aside, it seems that is precisely what ETKA calls it, so that *IS* technically a correct answer.
Big help huh? Maybe if it were part of the transmission we'd get a broader response 8-)?
More kidding aside, I assume you have an //S8 by the looks of your intake manifold. And I further assume your "valve" is "hissing". Mine did the same a few weeks back, yet to replace it. Also throws a lean code / CEL / slightly high idle. Here's another angle heh heh:
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/86747/dsc00042.jpg">
It's a PCV valve, and my best pricing I found online was ~ $99.00 or so. Apparently it's a widely shared part amongst VW / Audi, so shop around. Mine failed @ 104k - how about yours?
HTH, good luck!
ps. where you located?
"It's a valve"
OK, kidding aside, it seems that is precisely what ETKA calls it, so that *IS* technically a correct answer.
Big help huh? Maybe if it were part of the transmission we'd get a broader response 8-)?
More kidding aside, I assume you have an //S8 by the looks of your intake manifold. And I further assume your "valve" is "hissing". Mine did the same a few weeks back, yet to replace it. Also throws a lean code / CEL / slightly high idle. Here's another angle heh heh:
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/86747/dsc00042.jpg">
It's a PCV valve, and my best pricing I found online was ~ $99.00 or so. Apparently it's a widely shared part amongst VW / Audi, so shop around. Mine failed @ 104k - how about yours?
HTH, good luck!
ps. where you located?
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Well good / refreshing news is at least it's a $100 part and 15 minute fix. Enjoy...
...those when you can get them on your Audi, I say!
Funny, they fail like clockwork then heh heh.
Again, where you located? Yours is the highest mileage '03 I've heard yet - congrats! I rack up like 22k / year - no garage queen here heh heh...
Funny, they fail like clockwork then heh heh.
Again, where you located? Yours is the highest mileage '03 I've heard yet - congrats! I rack up like 22k / year - no garage queen here heh heh...
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I am locate in Sacramento, CA but commute to South San Francisco to work
It's about 200 miles a day. I already racked up 28k mile in about 9 months. And love every minutes of it even in the traffic jam. I will have to do the major timing belt job later in the month. Right now I am looking up the parts and buy them so I will have everything by the time I get to it. I am looking forward to it actually.
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Heh... I didn't "get it" silly - NEED to GET it 8-). My buddy found it online for me at...
...something like www.vwparts.com or something like that.
I can find out for you when I finally get around to getting mine. Cause, all the woodknocking in da world ain't gonna help you - d'oh! It's an Audi afterall, no hiding from the inevitabilities!
ps. where YOU located, Mr. bach?
I can find out for you when I finally get around to getting mine. Cause, all the woodknocking in da world ain't gonna help you - d'oh! It's an Audi afterall, no hiding from the inevitabilities!
ps. where YOU located, Mr. bach?
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Here's the ETKA part # and online source, I didn't have access last night to my email archive:
#ETKA Part Number 077 103 245A "Valve"
Online source is <a href="http://www.1stvwparts.com/">1stVWparts</a>, which is said to be the cheapest factory parts supplier around - $94.21.
HTH, good luck.
Online source is <a href="http://www.1stvwparts.com/">1stVWparts</a>, which is said to be the cheapest factory parts supplier around - $94.21.
HTH, good luck.