[s-cars] [urq] Dual Coil Ignition

[Tom Saltino]

Must have been V8.


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> From: hmarcnguyen at netscape.net
> Date: 2007/05/06 Sun PM 10:36:19 EDT
> To: s-car-list at audifans.com,  urq at audifans.com
> Subject: [urq] Dual Coil Ignition
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> I found this story amusing, so just passing along...
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> STEVENS POINT, Wis. -- A Stevens Point man thought he was lucky to recover his car after it was stolen -- until it was stolen again later that day. 
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> York Heiden's pearl-colored 1990 Audi Quattro was stolen from a grocery store parking lot April 27 while his wife was running errands. The keys had been left in it.
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> Heiden, 36, who owns an automotive repair shop, quickly called some friends and the car was found nearby, without keys.
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> He said he had a friend disable the car's ignition by removing a coil wire while he left it to pick up a spare key. When he returned, the car was gone. He had forgotten, he said, that the model Audi had a two-coil system and could be driven with just one.
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>  "I was speechless," Heiden said, recalling how he stood where the car had been found, keys dangling from his fingers, the emotional high of finding the car dashed. "All I could do was hold the key up in my hand and look at it."
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> "Everyone says, 'You shouldn't have left it,'" Heiden said, laughing. "But I know, I know ... So many what-ifs: I shouldn't have done this, I should have taken the tire off."
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> Police later found the car in the same neighborhood. It had a broken taillight and a broken piece of interior trim.
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> What did Heiden learn from his ordeal?
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> "Don't leave your keys in the ignition," he said. "And if you find it, do not leave it."
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