April

Agreed. Even on the hottest day, I don't see any overflow.

ShadY12v

what happened with judgegavel?

I know you all bicker like ladies, but seems as though you all are taking it to the next level?

crew219

Do a little bit of searching and you'll see why the sig is paradoxical.

Schneideau

Oh!!! a book could be written. "The Quote-able Quotes" as Told by a Service Writer with a Straight Face. - Doubleday. That's the books title. What a coffee table book.....$24.99 P.S., (this is not the charactor of my specific Audi and Porsche service guys, for the most part their the bomb!)
Cheers, MS

danham

Not trying to be a PITA here, but the whole point of a pressurized system is to raise the boiling point beyond the temps found in the engine (as does antifreeze). Gas don't cool so good, so the system is designed to prevent that and keep things liquid.

I had a 1.8T chipped in my last car (A4 1.8TQ) and the only time it ever lost any coolant in seven years of hard driving was when the water pump got a little funky -- it leaked.

Also, Audi was famous for years for having air bubbles trapped in the system after a coolant change. This could cause lousy heater performance in winter and overheating in summer (esp. if the bubble formed around the fan sensor). The systems are so well sealed that it took aggressive "burping" techniques to get the air out. We used to jack up the front end and then open the heater core bleed valve, for example to force the air to travel toward the expansion tank.

-dan

ShadY12v

I know the story of the "chicks dig teh audis"...

Nuvolari1

...due to micro cracks in the engine block!!!

Now the good news (for most of you): it only happened with the 3.2L engine, and it may be a thing of the past. These cases were all in Germany.

Remedy: new engine.

mike-lur

just found out that there was a microscopic fissure in the radiator...new radiator to go in tomorrow.