It's snowing...nice to have Q

[Steve Sears]

Huw,
yep, 4x0 = 2x0  (repeat as necessary)
BTW, have any plans around the May 18-20 weekend?
Cheers!
Steve Sears
1987 Audi 5kTQ
1980 Audi 5k
1962 and '64 Auto Union DKW Junior deLuxes
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Huw Powell" <audi at humanspeakers.com>
To: "Steve Sears" <steve.sears at soil-mat.on.ca>
Cc: <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: It's snowing...nice to have Q


>> Blasted out the driveway with all the diffs locked, snow over the hood, 
>> the snowplow windrow at the end of the driveway didn't even slow me down. 
>> Passing cars and SUV's on the highway, not even a shudder as the 
>> crosswinds blast around the bridges.
>
> Etc., etc...
>
> Not to be too much of a wet blanket here, but please folks remember you 
> still have the same brakes even though you have "go" on all four wheels.
>
> Good snow tires help with braking and cornering, too, of course, but don't 
> let your ability to "go" make you overconfident about your ability to 
> "stop" and "turn".
>
> And to be even crankier, it is, as always, dangerous to travel at a large 
> speed differential to the traffic around you.
>
> Not that you shouldn't be having fun!
>
> My quattro on Hakkas is indoors staying clean and dry; the '78 K20 with 8' 
> plow is parked right outside my front door.  An hour of plowing later is 
> all the snowstorm fun I need to look forward to, especially considering we 
> have more snow already than this whole winter combined.
>
> -- 
> Huw Powell
>
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