Hello!
I bought my 1997 Audi A4 Avant one week ago. It had 130oookm, but looked and worked great. I bought it because I liked it very much, although I have read on the net some not nice stories about A4's.
I did some 200km by now, and there are already two problems (or "problems", I don't know):
1. The consumption seems too high - it's the 1.8 engine (NOT turbo), and takes more than 12-14l / 100km in the city, and about 10-11 on the highway with a/c on. And this happened driving "normally" - not pushing it at all.
2. Yesterday for the first time, when I started the engine, it grew up to about 2000rpm (as usually), then dropped but instead of remaining at 900rpm it died. At the second try it started normally. Yesterday and today the problem repeated twice (that's 30% of the starts). What could be the problem?
I didn't do nor noticed anything unusual before the problem 2. appeared.
I have to make a 2500km trip in one week, and I don't know if I can trust the car for it.
Car details:
Audi A4 Avant
Engine: petrol, 1.8 l (not turbo)
Front-weel drive, manual transmission.
Others: electric windows and mirrors, climatronic, alloy wheels.
Bye,
Ovidiu
I bought my 1997 Audi A4 Avant one week ago. It had 130oookm, but looked and worked great. I bought it because I liked it very much, although I have read on the net some not nice stories about A4's.
I did some 200km by now, and there are already two problems (or "problems", I don't know):
1. The consumption seems too high - it's the 1.8 engine (NOT turbo), and takes more than 12-14l / 100km in the city, and about 10-11 on the highway with a/c on. And this happened driving "normally" - not pushing it at all.
2. Yesterday for the first time, when I started the engine, it grew up to about 2000rpm (as usually), then dropped but instead of remaining at 900rpm it died. At the second try it started normally. Yesterday and today the problem repeated twice (that's 30% of the starts). What could be the problem?
I didn't do nor noticed anything unusual before the problem 2. appeared.
I have to make a 2500km trip in one week, and I don't know if I can trust the car for it.
Car details:
Audi A4 Avant
Engine: petrol, 1.8 l (not turbo)
Front-weel drive, manual transmission.
Others: electric windows and mirrors, climatronic, alloy wheels.
Bye,
Ovidiu