[s-cars] What to look for on a 84 urQ - Update

[Vincent Frégeac]

Thanks to all who gave advice for the urQ. I walked there with a 50+ pages
booklet highlighted everywhere!

 

Anyhow, I just went through the pre-start check-up. The guy started it. Huge
exhaust manifold leak. I didn’t even test drove it, to make sure I wouldn’t
get hooked. Risk was too high just after a snow storm with nice country
roads less than a mile away ;-)

 

There’s no place in my driveway for a third car waiting for warmer days to
be fixed, so I just walked away.

 

The car’s nice though. Nothing major beside the exhaust manifold. And at
4-5K$, there was money to spare to get it right. Just no place. Too bad.

 

Thanks again to all.

 

 

 

 

Vincent

’81 Fiat Spider 2000, first on the list this spring.

’96 S-Bitch, second on the list

’94 318is, running. Yes! There’s one running.

 

 

 

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De : Mtgadbois at aol.com [mailto:Mtgadbois at aol.com] 
Envoyé : 17 décembre 2007 17:37
À : s.sikss at gmail.com
Cc : s-car-list at audifans.com
Objet : Re: [s-cars] What to look for on a 84 urQ

 

In a message dated 12/16/2007 8:32:06 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
s.sikss at gmail.com writes:

What  should I look for on a ?84 urQ, 113Kmiles, 225hp 10VT rebuilt  at
90Kmiles?


Let me take the other side.  Over the last 25 years I have had 6 Audis, one
of which was an early '83 UrQ.  I had great hopes for the one I bought - had
always wanted one.  Mine was a nightmare.  I do not know if they got the
electronics sorted out by the time yours was built but with mine you could
feel the heat radiating out of the fuse box and other various locations on
the dash.   Other than the electronics and the no-longer-available parts I
remember the OEM exhaust system was hard to source and fit in. I do not
believe it was stainless.  

 

Good luck with the one you are going to look at - I'd recommend that you
keep a hunk of cash in reserve for the repairs.  One other thing you may
want to check is the ride quality.  My '83 felt like driving a truck.
Nowhere near as controlled as my 95.5 with Bilsteins and euro springs.  The
'83 suspension was stock springs with Koni shocks.

 

Best of luck,

 

Mark near Chicago

 

BTW, I understand my '83 eventually found its way to Anderson and must have
been cured.  Several years ago I had an unlimited carfax account and ran its
vin.  It had gone to Utah and Alaska and was around 150K miles.  





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