Locking torsens?

Aleksander Mierzwa alexaudi at kki.net.pl
Wed Dec 13 16:23:56 EST 2000


At 07:23 00-12-13 -0500, Theron J. Bliss wrote:

>just trying to sell a car that was probably sitting on his lot a while.
But I was
>told later that the switch doesn't turn off the quattro, but mearly lock the
>differential.  My question then is, can you use that switch on any US Audi
>Quattro, to make it 2 wheel drive?  

The answer is simply: NO. Quattro is and always was a *full-time* AWD
system. The switch is for locking the rear differential. On later models it
was eliminated in favor of EDL (Electronic Differential Lock).

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Aleksander Mierzwa
Warsaw, Poland
87 5KT




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