[V8] If you think Audi parts are expensive....

[Scott DeWitt]

Electricity takes the path of least resistance, so when you have a conductor 
such as copper, in a pool of water electricity will flow through the copper 
conductor instead of the coolant.
Induction furnaces have used this for years.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan DiBiase" <d_dibiase at yahoo.com>
To: <cobram at juno.com>; <v8 at audifans.com>
Cc: <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 6:02 AM
Subject: Re: [V8] If you think Audi parts are expensive....


> cobram at juno.com wrote: Spoke with a friend of mine today, he works at a 
> Mercyless Benz/Maybach
> dealership as a tech.  Swapped out an alternator on one today, a water
> cooled alternator.  When the alternator went out it took out some
> electronics in the instrument cluster.  Car is still under
> warranty....warranty repair submitted to Maybach.....$21,000.  Yep,
> twenty one thousand dollars.  Alternator is around $10k, cluster around
> $10k + $1k in labor.
>
> ---------------------
> A water cooled alternator? I dunno, combining electricity and water seems 
> strange to me. Another strange design is in my MGB - they put the heater 
> valve (which controls coolant flow into the heater) DIRECTLY above the 
> distributor. So when the valve goes, it leaks water onto the distributor. 
> Guess they did that instead of a warning light, because you definitely 
> know when your heater valve is leaking!
>
> Dan D
> '04 A4 1.8Tq MT-6
> Central NJ USA
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