Re: Weird Audis by Treser

[ti@bazooka.amb.org (Ti Kan)]

Phil Payne writes:
> The glass is bonded to the hard top with 2"-wide adhesive borders, 
> which have now aged and gone blotchy. It looks _awful_ - even its Mom would 
> retch.
> ...  
> But I can imagine Audi looking at the bonded-in glass and saying: "Well, that's 
> how NOT to do it."  

There is nothing intrinsically wrong with bonding glass.  Treser probably
used an incorrect adhesive.  Audi has been bonding its front and rear
windshields (windscreens for those of you from UK) in the C3 body Audi 100
(ca. 1983) and just about every Audi model since 1987.

-Ti
96 A4 2.8 quattro
84 5000S 2.1 Turbo
80 4000 2.0
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