Some issues fixed on the CQ

[Tom Nas]

Hi all,

Fellow lister Eric Harten from Vegas was stuck here in Holland returning 
from a vacation, so I decided to show him what we do here at the weekend 
and took him to the place just across the German border where we do our 
wrenching. We went to work on my brother's newly-acquired '85 CQ- managed 
to fix the exhaust rattle by welding, put in the dual-bulb taillights (much 
better with the tinted lights) and fixed a dash rattle and non-functioning 
instrument lights. We had to do some serious mix and match between three 
instrument panels to get the lights working again, because the blue printed 
circuit foil on his dash was destroyed and a small add-on PCB (not sure 
what it's for) had snapped in two.
Managed to put the car on a lift (hey, it's a long drive but there's some 
great facilities there!) and look at the undercarriage- everything looks 
great, bushings in fine shape (they should be, the way it drives) and one 
nearly new lower wishbone where the previous owner hit a kerb.
Ferry Stolp took Eric for a run in his UrQ earlier in the day, so he had 
something to compare his own UrQ with. The beautiful weather we had in the 
morning turned to torrential rain later that day, an excellent way to test 
out the stability of the CQ. It performed better than my brother's other 
car, the Nissan 200SX (180 hp 1.8 16V turbo RWD) which I drove back home- 
that one got a little hairy at times.
A fun day for everyone, managed to solve a few distracting problems on the 
CQ and did some fine driving. Not bad!

Tom