Quattro To The Rescue!

[Sam Letzring]

It is so much fun to do that!!!

I live up in the mountains of northern New Mexico and commute 80 miles RT
every day over a 10,000 ft pass ( I live and work at 7500 ft). We get plenty
of snow this time of year and it is so much fun to blow by the BIG 4WD
diesel pickups as they're stranded alongside the road.

The only time I can't make it is when the snow gets over the front bumper.

Sam Letzring
New Mexico
86 4000CSQ >500Kmiles with really good snowtires


----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Kowalski" <akowalsk at comcast.net>
To: <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 12:57 PM
Subject: Quattro To The Rescue!


> I had a bit of fun last night using my 5KCSTQ as an impromptu tow vehicle,
thought I'd share it with the list.
>
> Here in Chicago we got about a foot of snow (in total, over several days)
which has partially melted and refrozen a couple of times.  The result has
been that on many of the side streets where there are no snowplow ordinances
in effect, the shoulders are shellacked with a thick sheet of ice and
refrozen snow that has been turned into deep ruts.  Some of the parking
spots are easy to get into, but almost impossible to get back out of.
>
> Last night I was on my way to the store, and a guy was trying like mad to
get his 2-wheel drive pickup truck out of one of these traps.  He had
evidently parked in the slushy mix, which had then frozen solid.  The truck
was just stuck fast in the ruts created by his tires.   They were no more
than 6" high, but that was enough -- with no weight in the bed, no chains or
snow tires, no sand or salt and nothing sharp to break the ice with, he was
going nowhere fast and beating up his transmission pretty well in the
process.
>
> His girlfriend was with him, and both were a little dressed up, which may
partially explain why, when I first offered to help he said: "Naaah, I'll
have this thing out in a sec., thanks!"  After a few more minutes of revving
the bejeezus out of the thing and attempting to rock it back and forth, he
finally threw in the towel.   I waited discreetly in my garage for this to
happen.  ;)
>
> Luckily, he was parked at the intersection of an alley, which enabled me
to pull the Quattro in behind him, turned the other way.  We tied some stout
nylon rope to the tow eyelet under the back bumper of the Q and through some
anchors on the bumper of his truck.  Then he put the truck in reverse, I
locked the diffs and put the Q in 1st (I was on the slush too), and in ten
seconds the Q yanked him right out of the spot, up and over the ice, and
into the clear and free.
>
> We untied the rope, shook hands, big smiles all around, and nobody was
even winded.  Just as we finished a tow truck mysteriously appeared and
cruised past our little party (they have a way of hovering around icebound
neighborhoods looking for people to 'help' to the tune of $25 bucks at times
like this.)   His license plate was from Washington State.  Priceless.
>
> Very nice couple, though, and if by chance he ever reads this, it was fun
to be able to lend him and his girlfriend a hand with my 17-year-old
Quattro.
>
> Cheers,
> Alex Kowalski
> '87 5KCSTQ - Saint Bernard Edition
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