4kq got towed without dollies ... advice?

[Bob H.]

I should have mentioned these two items.

The car was towed about 25 miles, mostly highway.  As for the driver's
speed, the limit is 65mph.  I would guess that most of the drive was in
excess of 50mph.

Thanks for the info.

-Bob

--- Mihnea Cotet <mik at info.fundp.ac.be> wrote:
> Bob,
>
> A non-torsen car (yours obviously) cannot have any damage at all if
> towed
> with the center diff unlocked for less than 50 miles at a speed lower
> than
> 50 mph of memory serves.
>
> So don't worry, it has more than probably no damage at all!
>
> HTH,
>
> Mihnea
>
>
>
> At 13:39 16/01/2003 -0800, Bob H. wrote:
> >My '85 4000 quattro died on me today in a parking lot and would not
> start
> >back up.  This just a couple days after replacing plugs, wires,
> >distributor cap, and rotor (and having it run better for those couple
> days
> >than it has since I bought it).
> >
> >Anyway, to my point.  I called a towing company and specifically said
> that
> >the car was AWD, and needed to be towed with a flatbed.  I was told it
> >would take probably 2 hours to get a flatbed out, so I left the keys in
> it
> >and asked that it be towed to my house in my absence (it's 19 degrees
> out
> >and snowing heavily ... I didn't feel like standing around waiting).
> >
> >The car showed up at my house being TOWED by a flatbed.  That's right,
> >rear wheels in the air, fronts rolling ... behind a perfectly good (but
> >empty) flatbed.  The driver said he didn't think it was AWD (although
> it
> >seems odd that they would send a flatbed for a non-AWD car).  He "saw
> the
> >driveshaft and figured it was RWD".  According to my owner's manual,
> the
> >car MUST be towed with all 4 wheels off the ground.
> >
> >I've already called the company and was told "when [I] get it started,
> >call [them] if [I] am having any problems".  This brings me to my
> >question.  Should I expect to immediately have symptoms from this?  How
> >should I proceed?  I feel like they must have significantly shortened
> the
> >life of my center diff, whether it fails tomorrow or next year.  Anyone
> >have this experience and do something about it?
> >
> >Thanks in advance for any advice.  I used google.com and didn't find
> >anything particularly applicable.
> >
> >-Bob Hodgeman
> >  '85 4ksq
> >
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