Was: Re: quattro Digest, Vol 51, Issue 44, but we're talking about "lock carriers"

[cobram at juno.com]

THIS alternator went at 85k, most GM's get up and past 100k without
problems, some WAY past 100k.  
Kind of ironic to be using 85k as a yardstick for anything on this
particular list, where depending on the model/year our cars have blown
coil packs @ <10k miles, dead clusters @ <20k , blown transmissions @
<50k, 60k timing belt intervals,  brakes that'll shake your fillings
loose @ <15k, @ >85k....I don't have time, the type 44 alone would take
me half the day to list.  

Germans seem to over engineer things, and not always for the better.  At
least it wasn't a glorified Mercedes:

http://audifans.com/pipermail/v8/2007-May/015003.html

BCNU,
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"Danton J.A. Cardoso" <djacardoso at gmail.com> writes:
> Hence the reason alternators go at 85K, so they can nickel and dime 
> you
> constantly.  At least with a Dodge Ram they don't go at 85K.
>