shatiras

A few weeks ago, during an extreme cold spell, I smelled fuel while stopped at a traffic light in my '99 2.8 A6. The smell was very strong and scared the **** out of me (I am in the car with my wife and two kids). I look under the hood and gas is dripping at a healthy rate from the supply fuel line, trickling down and eventually hiting the exhaust manifold making hissing sounds and smoke! Don't ask how I got it to the dealer, but I did and of course they can't look at the car until days later. In the meanwhile a search in this forum revelaed that others have encountered the same problem during extreme cold. Evidently once teh engine temp heats the hose (and you have not gone up in flames in teh meanwhile) the hose stops leaking.
Of course when the dealer looks at it the temp is back up to 40F and there is no leak. Nothing to fix! A call to AoA yielded no result, they deny it is a design problem. Mind you the part alone is $800 !!! It's one piece from the tank to teh fuel rail and back!!!A
s life goes two weekends ago I was in the Poconos, real cold, same problem. I decided to take some pictures and then fix it myself. I had seen the epoxy fix on the forum, but I opted to cut the hose off at the crimped section, pull it back over teh fitting and secure it with high pressure fuel hose clamps. Worked like a charm but was nerve racking cutting into an $800 part!
Anyway, teh question I have is what should I do with the pictures? Send them to AoA? Send them to NHTSA with a report? Or just frame them and put them in my "Audi gallery"?

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2.7tDallas

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JimR

We've seen the same problem with A8s in northern climes. I think PaulW was one of them. Doesn't drip on the exhaust manifold, though.

shatiras

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The routing of the hoses is slightly diffrent in the A8. The fuel would actually drip on the cable(?) marked by the red arrow and then from there drip farther down and on to the exhaust maniflod. Also the angle the car was parked at (slightly up-hill) may have contributed to it.
Well for a car made to drive in snow it sure is sensitive to cold. When it gets cold everything starts going wrong: fuel leaks, oil leaks, intermittent airbag light on, etc. etc. Is it 80F year around in Germany??? When I lived there it sure did not seem like it!!

Potomac2.7Tee

These cars are very popular in Scandinavia and I never heard of this when I lived there. Odd.

Potomac2.7Tee

I agree.

Hartmann/Achtuning

Same issue on my 95 S6,

2FST4U

anyone have this problem in a 2.7T??

Charlie Choi

I never get them to pay for design flaws - e.g. front bumper

Singletrack

I would call the local news.