why you don't go to the quick-lube place

[Rave Racer 2000]

----- Original Message -----
From: Brett Dikeman <quattro at pdikeman.ne.mediaone.net>
To: <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2000 10:23 AM
Subject: why you don't go to the quick-lube place


> Cartalk this morning...a woman has a '98 subaru.  All of the sudden,
> on a back road, it starts accelerating.
>
> Her first thought: "Wow, this car accelerates well!" :-)
>
> So, it hits some absurd speeds, she really starts to freak out,
> brakes the car down to a slow speed, then shuts it off and coasts in
> neutral.  TUrns it back on, RPMs jump up high again, so she has it
> towed to the dealer.

        I had been discussing the problem with the drop in Audi popularity
over the last decade or so, up until now, with my mechanic while he was
changing the clutch and hydraulics.  $1500 Canadian BTW!!  (Slave cyl split
in two, blew it's load on the clutch - scrap, and lodged in the top of the
tranny).
        He attributed the decline in sales to the ever unpopular rumor of
the Audi Random Acceleration problem.
        Two weeks later, I accelerate onto a highway just south of the Gaspe
in Quebec Canada and the car hits 140 kph and won't stop.  I thought to
myself "Murphy's law.  I was just talking about this, and now I'm gonna
die."  I down shift and stomp on the brakes, then shut it off on the roll at
the next exit.
        Problem:  The bar that connects the vacuum plunger of the Cruise
Control to the trottle body came off of the ball joint and jammed itself
between the throttle body and the stop while I was on hard acceleration.  I
untangled it, thanked the real GOD for saving me from the various AUDI Gods,
and finished my drive to Toronto, safe and sound.  Ironic?  nope, I live by
Murphy's law.  And now I own an AUDI.  I just handed the rest of my life
over to whoever this Murphy is.  Maybe Unka Bart knows him ; )
                                                                RR