"Steve Daniels" <sdaniels@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:t36224dvu9pcujepodo5pvph31u798a3bg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Mon, 05 May 2008 17:50:30 -0700, against all advice, something
> compelled Steve Daniels <sdaniels@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, to say:
>
>> On Mon, 5 May 2008 08:26:30 -0700, against all advice, something
>> compelled "iws" <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, to say:
>>
>> > "Kevin McMurtrie" <mcmurtri@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> >
>> news:mcmurtri-9D9221.21302404052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > > In article <190t14h9r14g1v63hnhkhfatamo1ua487f@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> > > Steve Daniels <sdaniels@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> I just bought a 2004 TT, 3.2 DSG S-Line.
>> > >>
>> > >> Sounds good, right?
>> > >>
>> > >> This morning it wouldn't start because the battery didn't
have
>> > >> enough power in it. I jumped it, and measured the voltage
>> across
>> > >> the terminals. Fourteen volts, just like it's supposed to
be.
>> > >>
>> > >> Turned it off, and it wouldn't start again. Put a charger
on
>> it
>> > >> for a couple of hours, and it started right up.
>> > >>
>> > >> I drove it about fifty miles, shutting it down and
restarting
>> it
>> > >> twice with no problems, but after letting it sit for an hour
>> the
>> > >> battery was the same as it was this morning. Flat as a
>> pancake.\
>> > >>
>> > >> I'm pretty sure my four year old car needs a new battery.
>> What
>> > >> say you all?
>> > >
>> > > Some battery plates probably cracked. Four years does seem a
>> bit of an
>> > > early death for a modern battery.
>> >
>> > Depends on where you live. Here in Phoenix, the desert heat
kills
>> the
>> > typical battery in about 3 years.
>>
>>
>> Just got back from the fix it guys. The battery had a bad cell.
>> They replaced it under warrantee.
>
>
>
>
> I was sitting at a light on my way to the service center, and I
> saw the tach drop to 0, and a few random trouble lights come on.
> Then everything came back. I was wondering if it would just drop
> dead in the middle of the road, which would have been so
> embarrassing. But then everything came back up again, and I made
> it to the Audi place.
>
> I left the car running when I went in. I told the Audi guy, "My
> car is still running, because I'm afraid that if I turn it off,
> it won't start again."
>
> He looked at me, his face expressing compassion. It was as if he
> was saying, "Don't worry, anxious Audi owner. You are now in the
> presence of Trained Audi Professionals. We know what to do. It
> will be fine. Don't worry."
>
> He drove my car into the safety of the Audi Service Center Womb,
> and placed it into the hands of a Trained Professional. The
> Trained Professional showed me how to make the seat go up and
> down (something I had not been able to figure out from the
> owner's manual), pointed out that I was missing a bracket (it's
> on order), and diagnosed the sick battery. And then he replaced
> it under warrantee.
>
> They then told me that the 35000 mile service had in fact been
> done (it's a big one involving changing the transmission fluid
> and filter), that the computer was not throwing any error codes,
> that they had reset my radio from the dead battery drama, and
> that I would not have to mess with my car for ANOTHER TEN
> THOUSAND MILES!! INCLUDING OIL CHANGES!!
>
> I did something last evening that I haven't done for years. I
> went for a joyride. Gas is four something (at 11.25:1
> compression, I need premium) and I used twelve bucks of it to
> drive around just because I love driving this car. I was nailing
> eighty on a back country road without even pushing it.
>
> I love my car.
>
> --
> Life is too short to play cheap guitars.
only four something...........let me tell you in the UK you only drive as
much as you have to, no matter how much you love the car cos over here its
$9 per gallon.
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