Opal
05-03-2010, 07:22 PM
Okay, so a friend's friend left him a 16-17 year old A4 sedan. Which unceremoniously died next to my apartment building when my friend dropped me off the other night.
We've checked the fuses, tried jumping the car. Battery is definitely not the issue. Starter doesn't seem to even try and I'm not hearing anything indicating a relay gives a rat's butt.
The thing pisses power steering fluid at about 1L/1000km, but otherwise has no known issues beyond "old".
Any suggestions?
The Friend is somewhere in Asia for a few weeks, at which point he flies back to Toronto and then drives the #^$% back to Quebec, so it really should, oh, I don't know... WORK?!
(Needless to say, SteveD is RIGHT and I'm NOT buying an Audi to replace the Civic of Doom. Sure, this one's elderly and apparently lemon-flavoured, but I can take a hint from the universe.)
We've checked the fuses, tried jumping the car. Battery is definitely not the issue. Starter doesn't seem to even try and I'm not hearing anything indicating a relay gives a rat's butt.
The thing pisses power steering fluid at about 1L/1000km, but otherwise has no known issues beyond "old".
Any suggestions?
The Friend is somewhere in Asia for a few weeks, at which point he flies back to Toronto and then drives the #^$% back to Quebec, so it really should, oh, I don't know... WORK?!
(Needless to say, SteveD is RIGHT and I'm NOT buying an Audi to replace the Civic of Doom. Sure, this one's elderly and apparently lemon-flavoured, but I can take a hint from the universe.)