[V8] interesting discovery

[Coleman, David]

Cool discovery John!   My PO kept the leather manual binder and key fob
in the 1st aid kit area too, as did my friend who also had a V8.  Fits
right nice there, but mine's gotta go to make room for the 1st aid kit.

My car had the odo replaced at 29k miles, and there's no sticker or
mention of it anywhere in the records, but the PO did tell me about it.
The records should always reflect the actual odo reading, not a
calculation of true mileage.   In fact, after spending some time going
through the PO's records, I could see where the reading went from 50x to
20x...

Whatever, I'm always proud to say the car's actually got about 220k on
it, as opposed to the 190ish shown on the clock... It just adds to the
surprise at how un-recent it is!

-Dave-



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> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 3:30 PM
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> Subject: [V8] interesting discovery
> 
> So, I got my nice new OEM emergency kit from Dave and I 
> opened up the spot where it goes in the back armrest - 
> something I am SURE I've done before... and low and behold I 
> find the original owners manual, service history, and (most 
> cool to me) the nice leather wallet that says Audi V8 on it :)
>  
> So now I know that the car was NOT sold by Audi of Brookline 
> but by Rietzl Audi of Norwell, MA.  The car was sold July 
> 31,1990 and they replaced the odometer November 12, 1991 with 
> 22,554 miles on it.  I didn't know that - didn't find any 
> indicator on the car and the PO didn't mention it...  So does 
> anyone know if the standard policy on a replacement odo is to 
> roll the numbers to match or leave it at zero?  If it stays 
> at zero my car had its first Tbelt done at 83,000 miles!  and 
> I just did the second one at 140,000 not 120,000...
>  
> The car has dealer stamps for Rietzl up through the 37,000 
> mile oil change in August of 1992 but I don't know anything 
> after that.  I had some paperwork from the PO that I think 
> was the only other 'real' owner(I bought it from a wholesaler 
> who bought it from another wholesaler) - they lived in 
> Brookline so I assumed they serviced it there.  Doing a 
> serious cleaning of the car recently I found a pen wedged in 
> the seat frame that informed me that the PO was a lawyer in 
> Brookline... how else could he afford either the car or Brookline? ;)
>  
> So... I'm finding bits to tease me into a history of the car. 
>  Kinda fun - except when you find it has 22,000 more miles 
> than you thought :(   I think I'll see if Rietzl has any 
> service history that they can share.  Anyone have any 
> experience with them?
>  
> until next episode...
>  
> John
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