A4 UltraMeow

[Jigs]

if you want to come to westside vw in st louis park i could help you out. dont know how far hudson is to there

edit: i like my hookers under 30 yrs old

I may have to take you up on that! I work right over in golden valley and Im about 5 mins from westside!

[teddymac]

Wow that's a hell of a deal. Yea I've loved it since I've had it. I would like it a little louder, might cut the resonators out sometime.

Magnaflow is definitely the way to go. It's very quiet inside... and actually pretty loud outside. Magnaflow did a really good job on this system. I wouldn't modify it, or try to cobble together some random pieces.

Hottexhaust is the cheapest place I found the system 2 years ago. Look around the net for coupon codes. I wanna say I got the system for around $650.

btw BR is my fav ultrasport color.

(back when I had aftermarket wheels)

[Jigs]

Ok guys I have a bit of an issue. I was driving home from work today and I had about a 1/4 tank of gas and the next thing I knew was that I had 1/8 tank and my gas light is on. I filled up with gas and now my fuel gauge will not go past 3/4 tank.

I tried resetting the cluster by removing fuse 15 (instrument cluster) and fuse 28 (fuel pump) and turning the ignition on then off and putting the fuses back in but that did nothing.

I have VAG COM and I was wondering if someone could walk me through checking my fuel senders and re calibrating my fuel gauge. Or if anyone has any other suggestions your input is appreciated

[JUSTION337]

I found this for MK4 VWs, but not sure if it translates to B6 A4s.

http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?3208286

[Jigs]

Yeah, I adjusted my settings on my fuel senders which kind of just covers up the problem.... Now my miles to e meter is way off, granted that thing has always been far from being right.

When I get a chance I will ohm out my senders and see if one of them is all messed up.

The stock setting on the senders is 128 each and I had to change them both to 145 for it to read full. Im thinking one of the senders must be bad and is reading that the tank is not full and the other sender is reading full hence why when I would fill it up it read just under 3/4 tank.

[Jigs]

A little update for you guys:

My issue with the fuel senders has seemingly fixed itself and I reset my fuel sender settings back to stock and all is good with that. Today I went to Carousel Audi for a routine oil change and they informed me of a couple issues:
A. My brakes are terrible (I already knew this and I have all new pads and rotors to throw in)
B. I have a small leak coming from the coolant flange and they quoted me $367 to fix it.. :0
C. I had an old revision of coil packs and they threw the new ones in for free


Would anyone want to help me put all of my new brakes in this weekend? I would buy you a case of beer or whatever your price may be I have everything to do the job (Rotors, pads, new DOT4, Power Motive Bleeder, and the brake piston kit from ECS to push the pistons back into the calipers). I could probably just do it myself but I have never done the brakes on an Audi, I have never used the Motive Bleeder, and I dont really have anywhere to work on my car for the moment.

If anyone could let me swing by their place and give me a hand some time this weekend it would be much appreciated!! You can let me know in this thread or just PM me.

Thanks guys!

[Jigs]

A big thanks goes out to Jeff, JTapper, for helping me out big time putting those brakes in, and also to Craig for giving me a ride to Ace just to find out they were closed!! One of the rears was a real PITA when the carrier bolts were rounded out to hell and Jeff had to end up cutting them up and fabbing up a bolt to get me by until I can get the right ones from Carousel. It ended up being like a 5 hour ordeal and I owe you a big one Jeff!

Thanks guys so much you saved me a real headache, we'll have to get together some time for some beers on me sometime!

[Jigs]

Anyone know of a good place to buy rear outer CV boot kits? The outer one on my rear driver side is shooting grease all over and they only place I can find that carries the rear outter CV boot kit is ECS for like $65... If I'm going to pay that amount I might as well just throw in a whole new axle...

Anyone know of any good places to buy the rear outer boot kit from?

[Crispy222]

save your time and a roll of work towels, buy complete axels. just get OE ones. Not sure if the rears are hollow like the fronts, but get the same thing as stock (without paying OEM prices from the dealer)

[Jigs]

Ok so I am currently working on replacing my coolant flange and I have started pulling off hoses to get some things out of the way and I find that the hose that connects to the bottom of the "rubber oil check" valve as is what it is called in the DIY thread I was looking through.

Its the hose that goes down towards the oil pan in which this pic says to remove. Anyone know what its called?

[JUSTION337]

That is the upper PCV hose.

[Jigs]

Ok so when I traced to where that line went it went down by the oil cooler and I could see it had a big 90* plastic bend in it that was leaking oil so I pulled the whole set of hoses off and the big 90 was all busted up...
Set of hoses


Busted up 90.


Busted hose from up by the PCV


I was reading on audizine that you can just yank out the PCV system... I could just run a 1" black hose from the busted up 90 that connects to the crank breather and just run it straight up to the valve cover breather. Then I can put a T in that line and run another 1" line and just dump it under the car. does this sound right?

[Jigs]

Fuck it, I am going to do this.. http://www.audizine.com/forum/showth...simplification

http://www.audizine.com/forum/showth...hlight=in-line

I might as well jusst start ripping all of that PCV and extra vacuum crap out to make some room, I need to order a block off plate.. haha

[MrScary]

Yea I gotta do this too at some point. Don't know why I haven't yet.

[Jigs]

If I were to delete the SAI system would I be able to have someone just shut of the CEL for it or would I have to get a tune to get rid of the CEL?