That @#$%in' Intercooler Hose...

[Michael Spiers <mikes@specnet.com>]

Saturday afternoon I'm heading down 95 for a relaxing weekend at the beach.
 Getting back on the road after a pit stop at McD's, there's a semi barelling
down the right lane, so I drop it in third and gun it.  Takes off like a shot,
start the merge, BLAM goes the TQ followed by every idiot light in the thing
lighting up and the RPM's dropping to 0; jerk it out of the truck's way, slide
through the fence & pretty flowers, down the embankment, come to a smoking stop
in the gulley.  Shocking I didn't roll it (my mountain bike was on the roof, I
would have been irritated about that,) even more so that the car was completely
undamaged.  Pop the hood to investigate the problem, there sits my two month
old silicone jacket intercooler hose with a three inch rip in the seem.  Nifty.
 Luckily I still had the old stock Audi hose in the trunk, it had a rip too but
not a three inch one.  Half hour later I was able to limp it down to the beach,
where it rained for the rest of my stay.  Linda will be receiving an order from
me as soon as it's opening time in California.  In the mean time, anyone know
the differences in part numbers for these things?  Last time I looked into a
new intercooler hose, I got three different part numbers for the same part for
the same car.  What would the difference be?  TIA for any idea's.  BTW, getting
back up the embankment was entertaining.  Anything other than a Quattro with
locked diffs would have called a tow truck!

-- 
-Mike
mikes@specnet.com
mks107@psuvm.psu.edu
87 5000CS TQ
84 5000S (2,000 miles away and a mile high)
90 80 (sibling's mode of transportation I get lynched into working on)