Re: don't try this at home??

[bbell@csn.net (Bruce Bell)]

><Audi wheels and bolts and patterns....
>...about 2 years ago....in a land no so different from ours...
>    I thought I would share a little story.  I have an 87 4000S, 1.8L.  I
>
> went to a junkyard to track down a spare set of wheels for Auto-X.  I went
> home with a set of 14" factory wheels from a 4000csq.  I was all ready to
> mount them, and they wouldn't fit.   If you didn't know, you would think
>  that they look identical, but:
>                       4000q takes a 4-bolt, 14mm, (don't know pattern)
>
>                  4000S, 4-cyl, takes 4-bolt 12mm, 4X100mm std. VW pattern
>

4000q and all later Coupe gt's take the 4X108mm pattern.

Are you ready for this:
Yesterday I had a talk w/ one of my mechanics who also fixes up used VW's
and Audies to re-sell. He showed me an (non-quattro)'86 4000cs 1.8L which
had the 4X108mmm bolt pattern. He also has a 4000s 1.8L which has the
4X100mm pattern. GO figure! He called his parts distributor who said "there
is a difference between the S and the CS. I had always thought S and CS
designations were advertising fluff. 

We had a thread here several months ago about some of the different
designations, but I don't recall anyone defining CS.  FWIW the window
sticker from my '87 4000CS Quattro says "(SPECIAL BUILD)" right after the
model name. Anyone else still have their window stickers?

Bruce

bbell@csn.org (Bruce Bell)