ok. I had the timing belt and everything mechanical addressed 2 years ago, Its been parked ever since. I have been out of the country. I will be coming back soon and driving it from Colorado to MN, aprox. 1000 miles. Im used to at least monitoring the engines temp. the reasons I want to now are endless. Can I trust the old warning system? Does any body do?? Or should I look at some auxilary guages before I start on the drive.
Im very exited to start driving my car again, but I feel that if the warning light did ever come up id be too late.

What else do you think I have to address after the two years standing. I have a friend who has been starting it from time to time and it starts everytime and idles perfect.


What do you guys think

like always thanks

Personally I like guages. Water temp, oil temp, oil pressure, boost, voltage. If it were me - I'd probablay just put soem new oil in there, drive it a bit for a couple days (if possible) before leaving and check for fluid leaks. Bring your DMM and 3MM key for the fuel distributor so you can reset the mixture in MN for the different altitude. These cars are made for highway travel - I'm sure you'll be fine. In '99 I drove mine to Monterey from Denver with no tools no spares. No problems. Ahh ignorance was bliss...

Brandon
'84 urquattro 20Vt
Denver

Thanks mate. Don't worry it will come back. I will be living in Vail after the next winter. I do not have these keys and dont know how to reset the mixture but thanks, I will have it in mind.

Do you know were to get guages installed in Denver by any chance?

thanks

My car does have an oil temp gauge though, and I watched that like a hawk.

My car has nothing I can use. A boost gauge, fuel guage. and thats it. Is it difficult to retrofit something?

If you remove the connector from the sensor and jumper the pins, with ignition on, the temp light should light up.

For the sensor, connect a multi meter and check for continuity.

I bought a well known Denver car just short of 5 years ago. It had been sitting for months, if not a year prior to my test drive. I flew in, test drove it, payed for it, and the next morning I filled it with gas and drove it 700+ miles to Vegas.

It never missed a beat - 400 of those miles were in the daggum rain...

Check the basics, belts, hoses, etc... If anything - pull as many CIS connectors off and clean/lube them and drive the car around a bit.

i dont think thats a boost guage, isnt that an oil pressure guage beside the fuel guage ?

<center><img src="http://photos.foxgti.com/images/A_1/8/5/4/54581/san_jose_089_173fc.Large.jpg"></center><p>Hi. I'm new here but had to jump in to say that although I have found it nerve racking, I've put 6000 miles on mine since August and don't even know if the Idiot lights work properly. I just added pictures of last weeks 1500 round trip from Idaho to San Jose Ca. to my new photo account. After playing in the snow on Sunday, I found a 78 Fox on craigslist that I had to have. Here is a link. The rest of my pictures from urq25 are also on there. I always plan on putting in some gauges before the next big trip but havn't gotten it done.
My car sat for 9 years before urq25 and hasn't had a major problem yet, so good luck.

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for all the help. Everyone.

I too flew out to look at my first urq.

It seemed to start, run &amp; drive Ok. A 'bit' of rust on the inner fenders, but hey, it is a urq , and I wanted it!

I was going to a far away rally to meet with the previous owner to take delivery (It was sort of splitting the difference of the travel distance).

After the rally, bought some new wiper blades, and drove it home. About 1500 km.. :-)

No problems getting home (except that the brakes would apply themselves when the underhood temps went up)

If I knew then, what I know now..

Yikes!!! :-)

My 85 had that "factory option" when I got it. Made it interesting to drive until I got it figured out ;-)

Haven't had that option activate .... yet.

when the fluid behind the piston heats up and expands, the brakes apply themselves!

Or something like that.

The trip to Ur25 last year wasn't much better as far as not having the bugs worked out on the EFI upgrade and just going for it. I 2nd the Ignorance is bliss!!

and yea, chalk up the maiden voyage to UrQ25 in itself as my 2nd blessing of the Audi Gods

BTW, that was a low blow ;o}

That thing is sweet!

I could have bought one out of the Blackhawk collection at Monterey (silent auction) for about $65k a few years back.

No money for that sorta thing, but, had I had it... Well, maybe it's good I'm poor.

Root cause? Don't know..

But i do know, it happens when the underhood temps go up. Like when you are stuck in stop and go traffic, and you have no 'airspeed' to speak of.

At first, you can feel a bit of 'slack' in the pedal, follwed by some 'pushback' as you depress further.

IF the underhood temps continue to rise, the 'pushback' gets harder, and the brakes start to drag more.

If you let it get bad enouhg (In other words, if you don't stop and pop the hood so things cool down), it can get bad enough to start loading down the motor.

Replacing the master cylinder solved the problem. (Seems to be a known problem on 5K &amp; 200s..)

Feel free to shoot me an email.

If you are interested in a lttle GTG (dinner) with other urq owners next time you are in Denver - let me know.

Brandon
'84 urquattro 20V
Denver