Survey: type 44 break down frequency

[james accordino]

I don't think anyone has bought worse Audis than me.
My first, an 85 5kt ($200.) was so beat I could barely
drive it home (and shouldn't have).  One rotor was so
worn, the hat and disc seperated when removed.  One
strut was so worn the rod fell out of the body when I
turned it upside down.  The 89 ($970.) I got out of a
junkyard (literally) with the drivers rear door and
fuel pump already taken.  Both cars needed immediate
tires, brake systems and shocks.

Jim Accordino

--- Wallace White <wallace at stanfordalumni.org> wrote:
> Glad you made it back with it still running, Geo.
> Good luck tracking the
> problem down... maybe just a dying battery, or high
> quiescent current (i.e.
> power off drain)?
>
> Guess I'm glad to hear that other folks don't have
> as many break-downs as I
> do... maybe I'm still just paying back for the PO's
> "deferred maintenace." Or
> being a lightning rod for you, Zsolt, and Kneale. ;)
> (I'm sure there are some
> other lightning rods out there.)
>
> I can live with the non-stranding issues like A/C,
> window switches, even the
> brake judder I need to look into (probably
> bushings). I'm just wondering how
> often I might keep using that free towing in the
> future...
>
> - Wallace
>   '87 5kcstq 190k
>
> george mills <gamills at ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
> > I must say, Wallace, that from your account I
> would seriously think of
> > dumping the car for something more reliable :) All
> of my little
> > mishaps occurred with the car in the driveway and
> close to tools,
> > except today! Going about my business of making
> some dollars I came
> > out of a building, got in ye olde 87 5kq, turn the
> key, starts to turn
> > over and no more batts. Check the CC head channel
> 11 and see 10.5
> > volts. Go back into building and friend says to
> use her car for a
> > jump. My cables are about six feet or so and the
> only way to get it
> > hooked up was to get her car onto the sidewalk as
> I was pretty much
> > hemmed in. I got dirty looks from some pedestrians
> :) Left it running
> > all the time when going about my errands. Who's
> gonna steal this ol'
> > beast :) Alt. output was good the whole way and
> when I got home and
> > shut it down in a more friendly environment there
> were 12.5 volts at
> > the batt. Some errant thing is happening I'm going
> to have to track
> > down, but now she's close to the tools.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Geo
>
>
>
>
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