[s-cars] B6 doesn't turn over in the cold

Tom Green trgreen at comcast.net
Sat Jan 9 11:09:58 PST 2010


Do you have a code for a 1933 Curmudgeon?
: - )

Tom

> On Friday January 8 2010  Sean Reifschneider <jafo at jafo.ca> wrote:
>
> Robert Myers wrote:
>> Could you also 'splain why an additional layer of gobbledygook code  
>> is
>> required when '04 S6 or '94 S6 is sufficient to distinguish what  
>> the car
>> is?
>
> In this case, the big issue is that I've got a 2005 S4, but there  
> were two
> models available in 2005, the B6 and B7.  If it were a 2004, I'd  
> probably
> have just said 2004 S4, but I've just gotten into the habit of  
> making it
> clear that it's the B6.
>
> Now, the real problem is in spoken conversations...
>
>    Him: This is a B6, right?
>    Me: No, it's a V8.
>    Him: It's a B6.
>    Me: No, it's a 4.2 liter V8.
>    Him: BEE SIX.
>    Me: Oh, I thought you were saying it was the V6 turbo.



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