RE: 5spd shifter recentering question

["Duff, Ian" <iduff@charter.com>]

What with electrics advancing lo these many years, we now have the
StuporChip (tm), installed in every Audi (that I know of, anyway)...

Ian Duff, 1990 Coupe Quattro 20v

Home: New Bedford, MA, USA
Work: Charter Systems, Inc., Waltham, MA, USA

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>From: 	Robert Houk - SMCC Bos Desktop
>Hardware[SMTP:rdh@UrQ.East.Sun.COM]
>Sent: 	Saturday, July 13, 1996 2:45 PM
>To: 	quattro@coimbra.ans.net
>Subject: 	Re: 5spd shifter recentering question
>
>   << I've decided to fix every last little problem on the car out of
>an eerie
>	compulsion to rid it completly of peksy glitches, like a crazed
>   fumigator 
>	in a bughouse: >>
>
>   You are skating on thin ice. Audis are like English cars. Any
>attempt to fix
>
>Yeah, but at least English Electrics work . . . mostly . . .
>
>   everything only encourages parts that work perfectly well to break
>   spontaneously. It is better to leave some inconsequential item
>broken rather
>   than trying to achieve a 100% car. Like a "Perfect 10," an Audi that
>has no
>   problems is only a theoretical (and non-stable) state of being.
>
>A Journalist Formely Known As Satch Carlson wrote a column lo these
>many
>moons ago in which he was bemoaning the boring reliabilty of modern
>cars
>(especially the Japanese brands, as I recall) . . . one of his
>suggestions
>was the LucasSwitch -- turn it on and it will randomly and sporadically
>pick some component (wipers, starter, fuel pump, etc.; nothing
>[serious]
>that any true HeMan can't fix with a hammer, some duct tape and an
>alli-
>gator clip or three...) and fail it. you know, Kinda put the Adventure
>&
>Romance back into Driving.
>
>					-RDH
>