[s-cars] WAS: Belly Pan blues NOW: New Denver auto shop

[DGraber460 at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/31/2007 5:13:49 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
rkaudifool at gmail.com writes:

Lets go  back in the wayback machine for a few minutes.

Back in '97 or '98,  shortly after I bought my highly neglected '93 S4, I
experienced an ECU  meltdown.  Supposedly caused by a few failing coils and a
POS  etc.....  My local wrench (who I no longer use for this and  various
other reasons) could not diagnose the problem, so I was forced to  trailor
the car to Prestige.  After several days of them poking  around, they gave me
the news about the ECU having gone south.  Not  wanting to pay the ~$1,200
for a new ECU, I asked if they might know of an  available used.  I was
eventually connected with a "Karl" who himself  used to be a wrench at
Prestige and also had some connection with AOA and  mentioned the Pikes Peak
URcoupes of great fame.  Apparantly Karl had  the ECU and various other
"stuff" laying around his personal garage.   In fact, my now installed ECU
has "Karl" written on the case.   Unfortunately, no fancy chip or anything
cool.  We struck a deal and  met up at Prestige to make the exchange of $$
and ECU.  We chatted for  a while, and I quickly realized that Karl knew his
shite.  He told me  he had retired from Prestige/AOA "a while back", and was
still poking  around there keeping an eye on his son.  Very nice guy.

Flash  forward to '07, I'm gonna bet that you have now stumbled onto  the
father/son team at their own shop.  If this is indeed the case, I  would
think they would be fine folks to work on your ride.  Seemed to  me that
Karl, if it's the same guy, knew an aweful lot about our fine  motors and
cars.

So no definite experience with 5280 MS, but an  interesting possible
connection anywho?

I'd do some more probing  (verbal) and see if it's them.  If so, you may have
found a goldmine  of knowledge and skills.



You are indeed dealing with an experienced individual that has no  equal in 
Audidom. I have been to Carl's house and seen his pictures of the  first URQ 
prototype to land in America for high altitude testing. Carl was  somewhat 
involved with that project. I just purchased a very rare  distributor from him a 
couple of weeks ago.
I find him to be a good man to know even if you don't like Audi's. A very  
good man.
 
Dennis
Denver