What car is this motor from?

[wkornfeld]

I don't know which vehicle in the audi lineup this comes from but maybe you guys can help. I was thinking it might be a Q7.

Anyway, found this on my other forum Socal-Sportbikes.

Apparently some guy parked his motorcycle in his friends garage and within 5 hours rats had eaten through some of his ECU wiring. Upon further inspection of other vehicles(I can only assume they haven't been driving this car very much) They found some kind of nest, er... well....
Considering how hot our motors get, they're lucky they weren't having fried rat for lunch or cleanup for that matter.

[tdn]

It's either a Q7 or RS4. R8's use this engine also.

I'm guessing it's a Q7

[RAudi Driver]

looks like it has dual intakes.

[FastB7S4]

Could be a VW...Touareg, Phaeton. Not sure if those were FSI, though.

[whartung]

it isnt the RS4 or the R8. look at the crazy windshield wiper.

The S5 is on the list of possibilities as well I think.

[sakimano]

the only V8 FSI would be

RS4, R8, S5, Q7

RS4 - different covers etc. so nope
R8 - midengine, so nope
S5 - you would see the coolant tank at the right, so nope (and wiper is different)
Q7 - bingo - same crazy wiper, same badging on engine (although all the Q7's I've seen show V8 4.2 FSI)

2008 Q7 V8 Engine

[whartung]

nice internet detective work! haha....

[Eddie Man]

ANSWER: VW Touareg V8

[whartung]

you sir, win.

[FastB7S4]

ANSWER: VW Touareg V8

Ha! I was right. I knew the "V8 FSI" font did not look like the Audi's but like that on a VW.

Anyway, how can anyone mistake that pic for the beautiful R8


or RS4?

[tdn]

I don't think anyone has mistaken that pic for an r8.

As for the rs4..

[FastB7S4]

I don't think anyone has mistaken that pic for an r8.

As for the rs4..

I think you did. LOL. Well, maybe not exactly but you said that the R8 uses the same engine.

It's either a Q7 or RS4. R8's use this engine also.

I'm guessing it's a Q7

[sakimano]

SCHEISS!!!!

ANSWER: VW Touareg V8

[caitovS4]

This thread should serve as a reminder that our engines make nice warm homes for (destructive) rats during this time of year.

They're obviously drawn to the warmth but then chew the hoses and tubing. Last year they got in our (clean & well organized) garage and chewed on both mine and the wife's car to the exent of approx. $1,000 in damage.

We live in an area with lots of vegetation and wildlife so I now make certain the garage is well loaded with traps and bait.

[sakimano]

This thread should serve as a reminder that our engines make nice warm homes for (destructive) rats during this time of year.

They're obviously drawn to the warmth but then chew the hoses and tubing. Last year they got in our (clean & well organized) garage and chewed on both mine and the wife's car to the exent of approx. $1,000 in damage.

We live in an area with lots of vegetation and wildlife so I now make certain the garage is well loaded with traps and bait.

really? rats proper? wow.
________________________

ESTELLE: I heard noise in the attic.

GEORGE: Maybe it was a mouse.

FRANK: (jumping to his feet) OK that's it! WE'RE MOVING

GEORGE: What?

FRANK: I WILL NOT TOLERATE INFESTATION!

GEORGE: You haven't even seen one.

FRANK: Don't you understand the very thought, the very idea, I'll never be comfortable again.

ESTELLE: All right Frank that's enough.

(Frank sits back down)

[FastB7S4]

really? rats proper? wow.
________________________

ESTELLE: I heard noise in the attic.

GEORGE: Maybe it was a mouse.

FRANK: (jumping to his feet) OK that's it! WE'RE MOVING

GEORGE: What?

FRANK: I WILL NOT TOLERATE INFESTATION!

GEORGE: You haven't even seen one.

FRANK: Don't you understand the very thought, the very idea, I'll never be comfortable again.

ESTELLE: All right Frank that's enough.

(Frank sits back down)

LOL! Had to search back in the "vault" (yet another Seinfeld reference) for that one.

[caitovS4]

really? rats proper? wow.

Yeah, and you know how I found out they were "rats" and not "mice"?
...One ate the poison and turned up dead in my wife's engine compartment.

That's a pleasant smell...

[samq45]

I can also attest that squirrels and chipmonks (which are essentially rats with bigger tails) can do similar damage. My 88 GTA has needed all sorts of wires for about 2 years now.

[AudiOso]

I've never seen a chipmonk... are they like Franciscans or are they closer to Benedictines?

[sakimano]

Yeah, and you know how I found out they were "rats" and not "mice"?
...One ate the poison and turned up dead in my wife's engine compartment.

That's a pleasant smell...

yikes

we had little droppings in our laundry room a few years ago. they were bigger than mice, so I wasn't happy with the possibilities. Then, I looked in the ceiling/vents, with a flashlight...HUGE rat. I wanted to Frank Costanza it, and get the FK out of the house. Awful. AND we were 1 week from selling the house!

Brought in an exterminator (not the truck you want in front of your house when selling). He looked at it and said it's the biggest rat he's ever seen. The rat just sat in this spot and stared at us, partially hidden, but visible enough to identify. Exterminator man had a camera on the end of a 6 foot long pole, and it revealed it to be a grey squirrel. I've never been so happy in my life to have a squirrel in my ceiling. Apparently we had a faulty chimney grate and he wriggled in.

We left a squirrel trap and never caught him. Figured he wriggled out. Wrong. BAD AWFUL STINK one day before listing. A contractor was there, and I told him what was up. He said 'that's bad energy dude...we gotta get him out of here'. He fell down the wall (in between drywall and couldn't get out, and I guess died of thirst. I had a rough idea where he was (heard scratching there one night, during the whole ordeal). Contractor cut into the drywall and sure enough...the smell was like a punch in the face! He was a big burly tough guy, but he FREAKED OUT...it was awesome. I got him out, and man did it reek. Poor little squirrel.

I had grown attached to him for his NOT being a rat!

[J.the W.]

I've never seen a chipmonk... are they like Franciscans or are they closer to Benedictines?

LOL!