[urq] To Modify or Not Modify

[Michael Hopton]

I think its great people keep the cars stock and hopefully at the 
same time enjoy driving them. However, as a daily driver the North
American cars can be tastefully modified to be a lot more fun. To
a purist a modified ECU is no longer stock, never mind pushing in
the bumpers..... I still love to see a stock ur-q in good condition.

There are a few of us now in North America running 20vt ur-qs. The
3B/AAN engine really brings the North American ur-qs up to and 
beyond the performance of a lot of current performance cars. Without
all the electronic cr*p to worry about/interefere.

So to each there own, Audi is not interested in supporting
ur-q owners and I think when I finally get my '83 painted I will
keep all the Audi logos off on principal. Sad yes.

Cheers, Mike

- 5 quattros, proudly not one of them stock :)

-----Original Message-----
From:	urq-bounces at audifans.com on behalf of Buchholz, Steven
Sent:	Thu 7/22/2004 7:23 PM
To:	urq at audifans.com
Cc:	
Subject:	RE: [urq] To Modify or Not  Modify
I believe the principle stands independent of the "collectibility" of a car
... in general, people are going to be willing to pay more for an original,
unmolested car.  If that original, unmolested car is only worth $50 more
than a standard car, that difference may well be unimportant ... 
 
The reason I wanted to reply is that it is not clear to me that the value of
the urq is continuing to decrease ... I see people asking more for their
cars now than they were a few years ago ... I don't know if they are getting
it or not ... perhaps Mr. Bremer will want to provide an update from his
perspective ... from my point of view I'm not too interested in resale value
because I'll never sell my urq ... and there's no way I'll ever break even
on what I originally paid for it ... 
 
No matter what, your final comment is something I agree with completely and
follow for my own decisions ... 
 
Steve B
San Jose, CA (USA)




... if you still have an original, unmolested car that you are starting with
you do need to realize that modifications you do may affect the value of the
car in the long term.  

I can appreciate this statement, and in normal collectible cases would agree
with it.  In the case of the Urq, however, collectible somehow doesn't seem
to be the nature of these vehicles.  The value of these cars in the market
has continued to go down.  I can't really imagine that at some point they
will recover.  The fact that Audi doesn't support these vehicles from a
parts perspective, only exagerates the problem.

Personally, I'd say: "make the car into what you would enjoy using the
most."
Dave 





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