[V8] RE: 1,600 mi Road Trip (long)

Mon Nov 8 13:24:45 EST 2004

 Good story.  Did you plan on meeting the audi fan that gave you the gas
cap, or was it coincidence?
nadj

-----Original Message-----
From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com] On
Behalf Of zsolt1 at telusplanet.net
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 12:06 PM
To: quattro at audifans.com
Subject: 1,600 mi Road Trip (long)

I have been down in Palm Springs from Calgary Alberta for a week and a half
now and I thought I should share my road trip with you guys.

I left home pretty late in the afternoon at 4PM. Originally I thought I'd go
as far as I can then I will find a place to stay for the night, but it
didnt exactly turn out that way. Let me just say that 28 hours later I was
already here. The total mileage was 1,600 miles, and my car used 92 gallon
of premium.

It was actually a fun drive overnight. I had my V1 mounted on the
windshield, and I only had one incident when a patrol car ahead of me
suspected I was speeding, and suddenly pulled over with his radar on to get
a reading. He must have been moving along pretty good since I was only
slowly catching up to him at speeds where most vehicles I passed appeared to
be standing. Luckily the V1 alerted me just in time.

The car an (88 red 5k tq) ran beautifully. I had my some maintenance work
done just before I left including belts, lifters and the fuel pump (just to
name a
few) and the 225/45/17 tires felt like they were enjoying the twisties in
the Montana mountains, until my engine suddenly died just before Blackfoot,
ID. I only drove about 290 miles since my last fill up, and I didn't think I
could have been out of fuel. I was quite sure it was the fuel pump again.
This was at 1:30 AM. My cell phone seemed to have signal, but I didn't know
where I was. I recalled seeing a sign a while back but didn't remember the
name on it. I thought I might as well take a nap till the morning and I will
call AAA to get the car in somewhere.

I have an emergency triangle that I put on the road behind the car, I put on
my flashers (the last thing I wanted was somebody slamming into me on the
freeway), and I must have dozed off when somebody knocked on my window. To
make the story short, a trooper ended up bringing me a couple of gallons of
gas, and the car fired right up. I guess at high speeds the car guzzled way
more than normal.
They led me to the nearest gas station, and wished me good luck for the rest
of my trip. I got lucky, and I also learned that my fuel gauge doesnt work.
Since I was logging my fill ups and mileages I started using those numbers
as a guide instead of relying on my gauge.

I got to Salt Lake City around 7 AM and filled up again. The temperature was
going up and the traffic was getting heavier as I was heading towards Las
Vegas, so I slowed down a bit. I also took a nap for an hour or two when I
got really tired. I reached Vegas incident free at around lunch time. At my
last fill up before I got there I lost my gas tank filler cap, however Hank,
a very nice fellow Audi enthusiast I met had a spare one on one of his parts
cars that he gave me. Unfortunately I couldnt see his car which is modified
with Javads EFI but we had lunch and had a great chat before I was heading
down south to Palm Springs.

The rest of the trip was also quite uneventful. The traffic was heavy, and I
got to P.S. at around 9PM local time.

Zsolt

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