[urq] urq nose bra

[laraa at sympatico.ca]

Must be a beautiful car then. I always had a soft spot for this very rare 
front end, especially when the car was metallic red...

Louis-Alain


-----Message d'origine-----
De : Chris [mailto:kleinbiker1 at aol.com]
Envoyé : 18 février 2016 17:55
À : <laraa at sympatico.ca>
Cc : Keith; <urq at audifans.com>
Objet : Re: [urq] urq nose bra

Mine is a completely stock 85 with the original US bumper and lights. It does 
indeed have the sloping grill that the 83 and 84 didn't.

> On Feb 18, 2016, at 17:49, <laraa at sympatico.ca> <laraa at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> Not that I want to rain on your parade, but before shipping it over
> the pond, you may want to verify a few points.
>
> - 85-86 N-A models had a sloped grille/headlamps, as opposed to the
> flat grille/headlamps for 81-84.
> - If a previous owner had the front bumper pushed-in, the bra won't
> fit correctly.
>
> Keith, I guess you will have to take a few pics of the bra installed
> on your car...
>
> If all is OEM-stock, then the bra will fit the angle of the grille,
> and probably the headlamps/corner-lights too, but your small euro
> bumper will be lost in the big N-A cavity. And the openings for the
> bumper blinkers won't match either.
>
> The bra was probably designed to fit a Stock N-A urQ like this 1985 :
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/37210452@N06/sets/72157632696036829/
>
> Let us know how it turned out...
>
> Louis-Alain
>
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : urq [mailto:urq-bounces at audifans.com] De la part de Chris Envoyé
> : 18 février 2016 17:09 À : Keith Cc : <urq at audifans.com> Objet : Re:
> [urq] urq nose bra
>
> I'm quite interested in it. I have an 85 sold in the U.S.
>
> Chris
>
>> On Feb 18, 2016, at 15:52, Keith <spotatashleys at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Many years ago I bought a nose bra for my quattro at a time when I
>> was using it daily. I bought it from the States but I never got it
>> out of the box. I realised I will never use it and recently offered
>> it for sale here in UK (as I said, never having had it out of the
>> box) to find to my embarrassment that it does not fit late model UK
>> market quattros (holes for lights in the wrong place etc). So if
>> anyone from the states would like it and is happy to pay just the
>> shipping costs, I'm happy to give it away - although if you can still
>> get them over there, it might be cheaper than the shipping for this
>> one. I just thought I 'd offer it before simply throwing it away. Just in 
>> case. The box says it's made by Wolf. It is a "series 2"
>> and the model number is: W/D 935-2 Audi quattro coupe 1983-86. The
>> bar code number is: 0-81231-61558 Let me know if interested. . First
>> come first served.
>> Regards
>>
>> Keith
>>
>> '87 WR.
>
>
>