wax coating

[Brett Dikeman]

On Jul 26, 2006, at 5:40 PM, Wylie Bean wrote:

> No cosmoline ( or anything else for that matter) applied to the car's
> finish except for an easily-removable static-infused plastic that
> leaves no residue whatsoever.  That has almost entirely given up its
> position (at least with Audi) in favor of Tyvek/cloth fabric coccoons
> that are removed and discarded at PDI.

Hmm...most Audis I've seen on trucks etc have had the static plastic  
stuck to them on certain panels.

More goofyness: the A3 comes with crappy windshield wiper blades, and  
according to one dealer, they're not permitted to remove them until  
final delivery.  He said it makes test drives in the rain with  
customers "interesting", because the blades are very narrow, so he  
has to assure customers they aren't the normal wipers (the normal  
wipers work very well, and the automatic rain sensor is pretty spiffy  
if so optioned.)  I test drove one with the Cheesy Blades and they  
were almost completely useless.

Even More goofyness: the new RS4 is shipped with special plugs that  
are changed out during final dealer prep.  They didn't know why.   
Can't be to limit power at the port, can it?  That's usually done via  
ECU coding that sets a throttle/RPM limit (right?)

Brett