Quattro limits in Ohio

[Eric S]

Don't know if any of you remember the snow storm that hit Denver 2 years
ago (4 feet at my house).

I owned at the time, a VAG product that wasn't even phased by that
stuff...a VW Iltis.

www.iltis.ca for info on the vehicle.  I was plowing through the 5-7ft
drifts with the thing in 4 with the rear diff locked...never got stuck.

Here are some pics at about 3 ft if I remember, you can see the Iltis in
the driveway.

http://www.vintagewatercooleds.com/~scirocco/snow/

Amazing vehicle, and I'd put money that it'd go anywhere.  Sadly I had to
part with it...I will own another someday.

Good luck on your storm, keep warm and safe inside.

-- 
Eric
www.vintagewatercooleds.com

1981 Scirocco S (TDI swap project)
1988 Audi 90 Quattro
1990 Corrado TDI
1991 Cabriolet (2.0 crossflow 8v project)

Doyt W. Echelberger said:
> We may have record-breaking nasty snow and wind developing. At noon today,
> in my quadrant of Ohio only the 5 ton dual axle National Guard lorries are
> moving on the side streets. They are designed to pull weapons and fuel
> trailers I think....several feet of wheel clearance, front bumper about
> the
> height of my windshield. My neighbor in a new 4 wheel drive Chevy Suburban
> with chains managed to get out. He is a phone company line technician, and
> he was going out to keep the sub station operating.
>
> The awesome all-wheel drive Audi quattro that has been able to wade
> through
> everything so far during the past few years has been stopped by these
> drifts. And now the temps are dropping and the drifts are freezing solid,
> and the quattro just slides up and sits there with the wheels spinning,
> both diffs locked.
>
> Forecasts indicate that our part of Ohio may have to deal with -7
> Fahrenheit temperatures and 30 mile an hour winds, starting this afternoon
> and increasing to blizzard conditions later in the day. Those temps are
> around the low end of the effectiveness range for solutions of salt and
> calcium chloride, and some roads already are drifted 3 feet deep with hard
> pack wet snow.
>
> So, I think we are going to sit this one out by the fire. That may include
> burning the furniture to keep the pipes from freezing when the ice snaps
> the power lines and disables  the furnace blower. Over 30,000 people are
> already in that situation in central Ohio, around Akron.
>
>
> Doyt Echelberger
> 87 Audi 5ktq
>
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