[s-cars] Water Wetter

[Tony Hoffman]

One quick note, heat indexes and wind chill readings do not affect a car.
Those are the relational affect they have on living organisms.

However, glad you didn't have any issues. With a properly running car and
the cooling system functioning properly, you shouldn't need any addative. I
run none in the 4000Q, run the AC all the time (I live in Houston, hello 90+
four or five months) and never have the needle go any higher than it does in
the winter in WI.

On a side note, I've probably done 40 timing belts on 1.8T's and 10 on V6's
in A4/Passat's. I just changed one procedure. When you listers are doing
yours, pull the AC condensor off the front and clean behind it. I've never
pulled it before on one of these, but found it made replacing the crank seal
much easier. Well, while it was off I noticed a LOT of stuff stuck into
probably 1/8 or more of the radiator surface area. It was in between the
condensor and radiator, so I normally wouldn't have noticed it. Well, I'll
be pulling them all from now on.

Oh, and I always loved the Talon, especially in that dark grey. What a great
car to drive, too. BTW, my fav is the first gen with pop-up headlights.

Tony

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Danton J.A. Cardoso
<djacardoso at gmail.com>wrote:

> I just wanted to extol the merits of this fine product.  Many years ago, I
> had an Eagle Talon TSi all wheel drive, with significant modifications, but
> looked bone stock, and Water Wetter was always recommended.
>
> Flash forward sixteen years later, and I decided to use this in my A4, with
> the 2.8. Yesterday, I was driving back from NY, with an overnight stop in
> Columbus.  Anyway, while getting ready to leave, I was watching the weather
> and hearing about the significant heat that was going to happen today
> through three states that I was going to be driving through.  Three of the
> states were giving readings of 100 plus with heat indexes factored in.
>  Now,
> I live in one of those three states (MO), and when I left last week, the
> forecast for my town, was going to be 111 with the heat index factored in.