Please Help

[infiltrator]

HI Guys,

just got my car back from the workshop after 100k service, and i got no front drive. what should i start looking at? i have checked the fuse to the 4wd system but it is fine, and so is the relay, any other fuses i should be looking for? is ther one neer the ATTESSA pump?

[kidafa]

What should you be looking at? Id be asking questions at the workshop.....

Check the fuse's, Attessa fluid in the boot, give the system a bleed and while your under it ensure the shafts in place :S ?

[ssshonky]

Yeah I would be taking it straight back to the Workshop in question !

No sense paying $$$ and having to diagnose their stuff up yourself ! Screw that for a joke.

Just out of curiousity- how can you tell you dont have front drive? I thought most of the time the Stag woudl give most of its power to the rears and only put power up the front if the rears slipped

[infiltrator]

I put my foot on the brake and planted the foot, back tyres are going, no front movement at all...

[Tangles]

has the front drive shaft been reinstalled (if on a rw-dyno)?

[pixel8r]

I'd be doing as little as possible and just take it back to the same workshop. Dont give them a reason to blame it on you (ie. if they can see you've been fiddling around since they worked on it).

Hopefully they are able to fix it up.

[lachlanw]

your car is fine . its supposed to do that

[lachlanw]

go and do a propper test . or at least elaborate on your test ? is your car auto?

[infiltrator]

switch in sincro mode ( shoud put the car in 50/50 split if im not mistaken) foot brake on, rear tyres start to slip fron nothing, on concrete.

[260tech]

^^^ Like he says, go give it some stick on gravel or grass surface & check out the tracks.

Cheers

[infiltrator]

just took it to the nature strip out the side of the house... Syncro switch on... rear wheels dug into the ground. fronts nothing

[kidafa]

just took it to the nature strip out the side of the house... Syncro switch on... rear wheels dug into the ground. fronts nothing

LOL

take it back to the workshop mate

[infiltrator]

just did the computer chech and its coming up with 91,92,93 E-TS solenoid.

[DaveB]

Yeah no way a RS-Four stag should do that with less than 300awkw (and then, would be at all four). Sounds like somebody forgot to re-fit the front driveshaft. It could be dangling () so get it checked out ASAP!

Edited November 11, 2009 by DaveB

[DaveB]

Hmm not good about attesa... maybe they pulled a fuse instead? They should drop the shaft...

[M I K E]

i don't know (because i've never owned an awd car) but if your foot is planted on the brakes, perhaps only the rears are spinning because of the front brake bias

[QWK32]

if i put my foot on the brake and plant the foot only the rears spin, weather it be on concrete, bitumen, or grass/dirt. even if the synco button is pushed. as MIKE has said, you need to overcome the brake force on the front for them to spin. but if i load the car up without using the brakes all four will dig a hole lol. i helped a mate pull his navara out of a dam he got bogged in, only time i've had all fours going, i was on grass/dirt and had the synco lock on.

more to your problem, id be taking it back to the workshop, they may have left something unplugged or damaged something whilst working on your car. don't try an fix it yourself, if its a big(expensive) problem that they have caused, and if there is evidence that you have been trying to fix it yourself, i don't think you will have a leg to stand on trying to get them to sort it out and in the end, you will be out of pocket fixing it.

Edited November 11, 2009 by QWK32

[kidafa]

Stalling my stag up for a launch I can get the fronts to start pulling the car forward with foot on brake... Happens around 2200 rpm when boost comes on.

[RBPOWA-(TJ)]

what workshop you go to ?

if they like there rep going the way it is, best take it back and get them to work it out.

there's been known workshops that have 2wd dyno's and forgetting or no plugging shit back in after dyno'ing AWD cars

[RSVFOURUK]

Obviously take the car back !

Re a foolproof test for 2wd

Jack the whole rear of the car up off the ground with a decent jack from the middle rear. Make sure the jack wheels are pointing in the same direction as the car wheels.

Put in gear apply the throttle a small amount . The rear wheels go round - if the awd is working the car will edge forward . If they dont its in 2wd mode