[urq] urq Digest, Vol 29, Issue 1

[Mike Del Tergo]

Yeah the Early Euros had headlight squirters but very ineffectual against a  
determined Mother Nature, ask me how I know.  That said my later Euro set 
up, even with 80W lows, regularly crusts over in the freezing sleet!



>Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 09:22:17 -0500
>From: "Ingo Rautenberg" <irautenberg at comcast.net>
>Subject: Re: [urq] Urquattro spotting

>
>Yeah, those quads look good until you've got blizzard-like conditions --
>then the "cup" of the bezel of the headlights acts like a ladle and the 
>snow
>melts, freezes, melts, freezes... until you wonder why you can't see
>anything anymore because you have huge chunks of ice welded to the 
>headlight
>lenses (from experience) that you need to remove so you can see again.
>
>However, I believe you Europeans had the headlight squirters then (which we
>never got), so that might not have been an issue...
>
>Ingo