I am fed up!

[Mike Arman]

>Igor Kessel <igor at s-cars.org>
>Subject: I am fed up!
>To: Audi A4 list <a4 at audifans.com>
>
>Folks,
>I am about to throw in the towel, sell my Audis and move to the other
>side. The 330ix seems more and more attractive by the minute.
>Here's the scope.
>Sometime in November 2004 the ABS controller in the wife's '98 A4
>(WAUCB28D3WA077066) has quit at only 46kmi.



Me thinks you've said the magic words . . . BRAKE FAILURES!!!!!

I am *sure* the NTSB and the DOT will be very interested in hearing about 
these obviously safety-related failures on late-model cars - I also read 
where they just made GM recall no fewer than 824,000 1997 through 1999 (I 
think) cars because of a power steering assist problem - and you KNOW GM 
would not do a recall that extensive unless they were forced to.

The best way to beat a bureaucracy is to turn a bigger bureaucracy loose on 
it - other than the NTSB and DOT, the only worse one is the IRS (which 
alas, doesn't apply in this case.)

Kurt Vonnegut (remember him?) coined a word for this - setting two 
unresponsive, monolithic bureaucracies against each other - I think it was 
a "Granfalloon". Sit back and watch the fun . . . remember that the NTSB 
can *FORCE* Audi to do absolutely whatever it wants them to, and once they 
are involved, Audi (and any other vehicle manufacturer) is just along for 
the ride, and if Audi doesn't enjoy it, well that's just too damn bad.

And I hear BMW isn't much better - just different. Something about tuneups 
on V-12s needing a pair of big dollar MAFs *each* time  . . .


Best Regards,

Mike Arman