[urq] "Team Door handle"

[laraa at sympatico.ca]

Salut!

Louis-Alain here, from Montreal CANADA.

Sold my urQ in 2013, still on the list and always reading every post, like I did since 2002. Boy do I miss the camaraderie and help and polite behaviour of you all folks. 

No current Audi, although I still drive a AWD manual euro-wagon. It's a Saab 9-3 XWD with the V6 turbo. Took it to a summer lapping day last week-end, and it does many ice lapping days each winter. No Audi, but a fun and willing car nonetheless.

You guys are making me feel nostalgic, as this period with the urQ was very interesting for me: learning to write in English, talk to complete strangers via this new medium, "internet", doing mechanical work myself that I wouldn't without help, etc... I've learned a LOT through the list. Thanks for that.

There is a VAG in the near future, probably a GTI or an R, something fun and compact that I can bring to the track when I begin to feel the weight of the years... Last Sunday, when approaching the staging area to go on the track, I was nervous as a teenager for its first date... Bizarre, must be old age...

Cheers, folks, happy to know you're still out there !

Louis-Alain


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De : quattro [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com] De la part de Snoopy
Envoyé : 22 juin 2017 15:08
À : quattro at audifans.com
Objet : Re: [urq] "Team Door handle"

Greetings! I guess I'm probably the only reader here from Lithuania :) I also don't remember when I've joined, but the my oldest post was in 2006.

My father was the one who introduced me to Audis. He was a real member of "team door handle", as he usually kept a good stock of chinese knock-offs in the closet. He also found out, that with a grinder and a good eye you could convert a soviet "Lada Samara" handle into something compatible with his '85 100 2.2 non-turbo.
Unfortunately, the quality of russian parts wasn't any better than chinese.

I inherited his car, but drove it only for about a year, until it started leaking everything, except probably the brake fluid. Then I had a chance to visit US for summer work, and guess what I've bought when I came back with pockets full of cash. That '90 100 2.3 Avant has served  me well for 13 years, until AT has started slipping, and local mechanics  asked  way too much just for taking the transmission out of the  car. Sold it 3 years ago, but I start missing it almost everyday, whenever I hit  a  pothole  with my current japanese "wooden suspension"
creature.

I still enjoy reading this list very much, because it still has this old school honesty and concise information. I have nothing against the current generation, they are able to do some impressive things too, but it's very soothing to read something without 3000px-wide image attachments and holy wars on every second thread.



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