[urq] Maintaining an old Urq

[JP Chaplen]

So following in your question on maintaining... 



I have been pondering this over the past year or so...I have done MANY upgrades in various ways over the past years I have owned my 83 URQ, replacing with new parts when ever possible, upgrading lights (i have quad HID's hi/lows), all the lights are LED even the dash lights. On and on...but the question i have and many be impossible to answer, should one keep the car stock, or are upgrades if of course done right better or devalue the car? 



I'm not looking for a 400hp+ screamer or anything like that, I just want a good looking/functional/(gulp) reliable URQ to drive that maybe turns a few heads here and there. Couple of examples i'm looking at are say the interior, the leather i have is in great shape for being what 28+ years old..i only have ONE small wear spot, but its not nice new anymore...cost who knows but im sure i could easly spend $5K plus or more I think to have it redone... 



I would like to further the Stereo system too, but do i hack up the Original panels even if they are professionally done and look better than they did before? 



Just wondering what people are also doing to preserve or maintain their cars or make them better than before? 



Sorry I know this is an open ended question... 



JP 



Also let me know if you want any specifics one LEDs all my brake/side/marker/interiors are all LEDs...I can Photo if you wanna see what they look like. 






----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Todd Phenneger" <tquattroguy at yahoo.com> 
To: urq at audifans.com, "Eric J. Fluhr" <efluhr at austin.rr.com> 
Cc: "20v list" <20v at audifans.com> 
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 10:12:12 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 
Subject: Re: [urq] Maintaining an old Urq 

I'm CCing the 20v list because I thought they might find this good info too. 

Did some more looking around. 
For 91' CQ it looks like the #24 is a drop in for the 1.2w dash bulbs. 
http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-bin/store/index.cgi?action=DispPage&Page2Disp=/mini-wedge.html 

I may pick some of those up in Red to see what they look like.   
As for the C4-A6.  I dont see anything but OTOH that dash is pretty good from the factory.  I guess I can keep it the same. 

What did you use for the urq Dash lights?  You'd need something with a 360degree pattern I believe to be captured by the (Distribution tubes??) in the dash. 

Thanks 

--- On Sat, 6/19/10, Eric J. Fluhr <efluhr at austin.rr.com> wrote: 

> From: Eric J. Fluhr <efluhr at austin.rr.com> 
> Subject: [urq] Maintaining an old Urq 
> To: urq at audifans.com 
> Date: Saturday, June 19, 2010, 3:30 PM 
> Urq-folks, 
> 
> FYI, I've been converting my Urq to various LED lights a la 
> 
> superbrightleds.com  (I have no affiliation 
> with this site, I've just been happy with their 
> products).  My rear driving 
> and brake lights are terrific now! 
> They have these "tower" style led bulbs that provide great 
> lumens, 
> instant-on response, and low current 
> draw to help compensate for the aging wiring in our 
> cars.  My buddies all 
> like the result on my Urq. 
> 
> I've also swapped my blinkers over, but this takes a little 
> more work than 
> just replacing the bulbs because 
> of the way Audi wired the dash light (ever noticed that the 
> dash hazards 
> behave differently with ignition on 
> versus ignition off...now I know why). 
> 
> I'm now working on replacing other bulbs in the car (like 
> the instrument 
> cluster) with some of their other 
> specialty LEDs, and so far I have been very happy with the 
> results. 
> 
> Later, 
> Eric 
> '82 urq 
> 
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