Re: '91 200 TQW

[LToy@aol.com]

Eliot writes:

>invicta GA's were used on audi v8's after the Z rated P600's were deemed
>too harsh as well.  i don't remember the time line for this, but i'd
>guess that the 91 cars came with invicta GA's.

Yes, the Z-rated P600s were harsh--more so than the Michelins (XGT-V4) I put
on just 2 weeks after I got the car, even though the P600s were new (sold
them for a decent amount to recoup my costs)

>i think they may have been close to sticking HR tires instead of the VR
GA's.
>remember that GA's come in HR for that size as well.  the other possibilty
>was that some cars came with the "all-season tires option" whereby cheap
>all season crap was substituted for premium rubber.  i remember that a
>friend bought an 80Q at around the same time as me, and found that to
>his horror, the car came shod with 175/70 all seasons instead of the
>expected 195/60 HR 14's.

per the insert, the Invicta GAL's are all-season.  interestingly, they did
not downsize the tires in this case, staying with the 215/60-15.  My  4kcsq
had the 195/60-14s, but the "no-cost option" was the 175/70-14.  BTW, any of
you ever try to find this size tire back in '87?  kind of a one-off
application--few fitments then, don't know about now.

>early 90's was when real pinheads were running the audi store.... (i'm
>sure glad that herr piech fired them all)  a 100Q equipped to the same
>level as a S4 cost almost as much as a S4.  pearl white paint on the
>S4 was a $400 option, while it cost $700 on the 100Q!  those poor
>fools who bought 100Qs during that time lost out big when it came time
>to trade.

wasn't that the truth.  thankfully that's changed now, though some of these
problems showed up long before the early 90s.

--ldt
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