Some issues fixed on the CQ

[alan pritchard]

hi, whats the deal with dual bulbs???  i swapped all my gear for the tinted
version and they are very dull, so im interested in making them brighter, if
thats what your talking about......
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Nas" <tnas at euronet.nl>
To: <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 11:38 AM
Subject: Some issues fixed on the CQ


> 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
>