Picked up an Audi yesterday, 2002 A6 Quattro 2.7t (twin turbo.) Looking just to flip it, the guy figured it needed a crank position sensor. After some research I found out that these can just start working again. The guy was in love with this car, and I knew if I cranked it and it started it would have been game over for me. It was cheap enough that if it needed something far worse I wouldn't be too butt hurt. So I took a chance, looked it over, and pushed it 2 blocks to my buddys place after giving him a figure in the 3 digit region. Crank it over and sure enough it sounds like a weak craftsman drill. Obviously no compression, pretty obvious it had a timing belt go right when he last shut it off or tried to start it up. Audi forums tell me that there is a .0000001% chance that it didn't bend valves, and with 5 valves (yes, 5) per cylinder on an interference engine, I assumed the same.
I don't think there's any other potential problem to cause low/no compression across the board, but it is german so who knows...
Anyway, has anyone worked on one of these? Should I bother trying to fix this or just flog it off? Sounds like the valves are soft and don't typically damage the pistons, at least in this situation, so probably just a belt and head swap
I don't think there's any other potential problem to cause low/no compression across the board, but it is german so who knows...
Anyway, has anyone worked on one of these? Should I bother trying to fix this or just flog it off? Sounds like the valves are soft and don't typically damage the pistons, at least in this situation, so probably just a belt and head swap