new car

[Graham Thackrah]

Hi list,

Well, I was hanging on for a Ur-q but I saw this UK G plate (1989) 100
quattro turbo and I couldn't say no:) It has 77k miles on it, leather
seats, air-conditioning, and a 2226 MC variant engine. It stumbles
nicely when you pull the dipstick, hits an indicated 1.2 bar on the dash
guage, the computer works ok giving sane readings for range, boost, mpg
etc. It also revs past 4k nicely.

The only potentially nasty thing about it is a lack of a check engine
light... ok, so it could be *bad* news but I didn't pay too much for the
car and considering it does seem to run fine it could just be a blown
bulb. That's the first thing I'm gonna check out anyway. It had a new
cam belt about 1k miles ago but they couldn't vouch for the water pump
and idler roller so that's another job I plan for the coming months. It
managed the 100 mile trip back home fine though so I don't think that it
is hiding anything too traumatic <cross fingers> only a slipping
alternator belt made itself known.

And Burns is WRC champ, wot a weekend!

Cherio,

Graham.

P.S. this is a new email address, but gthack at geog.ucl.ac.uk still works
too, just taking list mail off the mail servers at work;)