[V8] ...warning....

Thu Nov 27 07:44:49 PST 2008

I have never been unhappy with any DOT V8 headlights.  There are probably
two reasons for that: 1. my point of reference is my 91 Avant with those
same HORRID lights that your 87 had and 2. I have never driven with V8
euro lights.

Ed
the other Ed
in CO
the other one in CO.
sheesh
;-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: v8-bounces at audifans.com 
> [mailto:v8-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Roger Woodbury
> Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2008 8:12 AM
> To: 'Ed Dekker'; v8 at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: [V8] ...warning....
> 
> 
> I feel your pain.  The '87 5000CS Quattro was an experiment.  
> It was a car with high mileage and I drove it for a lot more 
> miles before it finally developed terminal engine syndrome 
> and terminal ground syndrome and went away.  Never, and I 
> mean NEVER had I experienced such terrible headlights.
> 
> I replaced that car with an 89 200 Avant. And for THIS car 
> there appeared European headlights which were separately 
> relayed, both high AND low and BOTH sides separately.  
> Amazing difference.  Those headlights were installed by the 
> dealer, by the way.
> 
> My second V8 got Euro headlights, too.
> 
> The current V8 has DOT headlights and so far I don't feel 
> that there is any need to replace them.  
> 
> Technically European headlights are probably illegal here.  
> But I know of no one who has a light meter thingy that will 
> test the lumen output and in all the time that I have been in 
> Maine, no one has ever really examined the headlights except 
> to see if they work.  I had European headlights in my'87 
> Mercedes that I bought over the counter at the Mercedes' 
> dealer parts department, and they were ordered directly from 
> Mercedes.  When they arrived, they were installed by the 
> dealer, too.  I doubt that they would do it today, though.
> 
> Roger
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed Dekker [mailto:dekkere at fuse.net] 
> Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2008 10:03 AM
> To: v8 at audifans.com
> Cc: rmwoodbury at roadrunner.com
> Subject: Re: [V8] ...warning....
> 
> Good point.  Except I'm still angry about the DOT headlamps 
> on my '87 and 
> '90 Audis.  We were in a life-threatening position coming 
> from the mountains
> 
> down to Denver in heavy snow and rush hour traffic.
> Ed
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Roger Woodbury" <rmwoodbury at roadrunner.com>
> To: "'Ed Dekker'" <dekkere at fuse.net>
> Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2008 7:16 AM
> Subject: RE: [V8] ...warning....
> 
> 
> The tubing is MDOT and USDOT approved for use as brake lines.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed Dekker [mailto:dekkere at fuse.net]
> Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2008 12:16 AM
> To: v8 at audifans.com
> Cc: rmwoodbury at roadrunner.com
> Subject: Fw: [V8] ...warning....
> 
>     "This new tubing is very bendable by hand..."  I hope the 
> new tubing can
> 
> take the brake pressure without bulging and eventually 
> bursting.  Bendable tubing (copper, aluminum and plastic) 
> doesn't have the pressure rating of steel.
> 
>     I'll be surprised if they find a non-corrosive "salt" for 
> clearing ice and snow.
> 
>     Wish you could coat the steel brake lines as well as Audi 
> applies wax under the fenders and body.  Properly applied, 
> that wax does well at preventing corrosion.  I had only one 
> rusted fender on my '83 5000 at 15 years, but none on my '87 
> 5000 or my '90 V8 at the same ages.  None yet on my '97 A6.  
> I think they missed waxing part of my '83 fender. The 
> fenders, rockers and frame sections all are rusted away on my 
> '88 Dakota.  The US and
> 
> Asians only now seem to be catching up to Audi's rust 
> proofing. Ed Dekker
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Roger Woodbury" <rmwoodbury at roadrunner.com>
> To: "'Ingo Rautenberg'" <ingo.rautenberg at gmail.com>; <v8 at audifans.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 6:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [V8] ...warning....
> 
> 
> > Here in Maine is is now very different than in the olden days.
> >
> > We have an annual inspection and in order for the car to pass it 
> > cannot be leaking anything from anywhere, no rust through 
> on the body, 
> > and everything that is supposed to be working when the car left the 
> > factory, must be working at time of inspection:  ie:  no 
> lights on the 
> > dash.
> >
> > However in the past year there is now a new requirement for 
> intact and 
> > non corroded brake lines.  What this means is that the car 
> is put on a 
> > lift and the brake lines are ALL inspected, and if anything 
> is suspect 
> > the car fails
> > and the brake lines must be replaced.
> >
> > There is amply good reason for this because for the past 
> few years the 
> > Maine DOT has been sanding and salting roads in the winter 
> here using 
> > some sort of
> > obnoxious stuff that melts the ice and snow all right, and 
> also destroys
> > the
> > underpinnings of cars, beginning with but not limited to, 
> brakelines.
> >
> > I have heard that they are changing the formula for this 
> stuff because 
> > so many people have complained...complete brake line 
> replacement every 
> > two years is simply not affordable for an awful lot of 
> people here, me 
> > included.
> >
> > There is also a new brake line material that is being used 
> that is not 
> > made of steel as the old ones were. This new tubing is very 
> bendable 
> > by hand and
> > will not rust out EVER.  More expensive than the old 
> fashioned steel but
> > infinitely better.
> >
> > Roger
> >
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