LAC! VW gti 20th aniv.

[Mark J. Besso]

You'd be thinking of the 5-cylinder with two cams on top.  They make a 
really expensive mess it the timing belt breaks.

~Mark


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Hall" <badcomrade at gmail.com>
To: <audi at humanspeakers.com>
Cc: <cdyer_2000 at yahoo.com>; <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: LAC! VW gti 20th aniv.


I could have sworn the 5 cylinder was an interference... Which Audi am
I thinking of then?

On 6/30/05, Huw Powell <audi at humanspeakers.com> wrote:
>
> > They could also powder coat everything under the car so it never
> > rusts, but no one's gonna do that because then the car would be
> > priced even more.
>
> They could even galvanise the body panels to prevent/slow rusting... 
> whoa...
>
> >>>> ~120k Alternator needs new.
>
> >>> Sounds about right.
>
> I've never seen a "bad" alternator on any of my Audis... replaced a
> handful of regulators or just brushes, though.  So my '82 cgt has a 23
> year old, 310,000 miles "alternator" in it, and the '89 90Q a 16 y.o.
> 190,000 one.  Young brushes, though.
>
> >>> Hope she's had the timing belt changed every 60,000 miles!
>
> >> Don't even get me started on that.   I don't find these
> >> maintenance/failure intervals acceptable at all.  Don't let me stop
> >> *you* though.
>
> > Yeah sure... why change something as important as the timing belt?
> > Especially on say, my 85 CGT where if it snaps, the pistons will
> > pound the valves in to oblivion and I'll have to spend a couple grand
> >  instead of the $50 it would have cost to install a new belt.
> > Granted, I don't think the Golf you were talking about has an
> > "interference engine" but again...
>
> Um, unless you swapped the engine, your Coupe isn't an interference
> motor either.
>
> I've just been realizing that my '82 coupe's "new" timing belt has been
> in there for six years... it's only gone 40,000 miles, but I guess it's
> time to replace it again!
>
> --
> Huw Powell
>
> http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi
>
> http://www.humanthoughts.org/
>


-- 
Chris Hall
badcomrade at gmail.com
"making girls cry since 1974"
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