Re: A snow/ice storm and my A4Q (longish)...

[dan_masi@MENTORG.COM (Dan Masi)]

On Mar 18,  9:23am, John Legelis wrote:
>
> Things I love about the car in a storm:  heated mirrors, good
> headlight washers, heated washer nozzles, and of course Quattro.
> BTW, I installed the adjustable intermittant wiper relay from VW -
> big win!

I had a problem with my wipers and windshield freezing up.  Couldn't
decide if it was best to keep the heat way up and blasting on the
windshield, or keep it cold, or what.  Anyone have any suggestions
on better wiper blades for this car?

> Nits:  This is my first car with ABS, and while I don't deny it's
> ability to stop a car on the slick stuff I have found the the lack
> of a switch to defeat the system impairs my ability to determine
how
> slick the roads actually are.  In non-ABS cars I can judge road
> conditions by gently pressing on the brake, while feeling for
> impending wheel lockup.  ABS doesn't allow me to do this test...

Sure it does.  Better yet, *it* feels for impending wheel lockup
*for* you.  So, you just need to judge how much braking force you
need to apply before ABS kicks in.  If you barely hit the pedal and
ABS starts pumping, you know it's time to bail out...

> I've even entertaind the idea of wiring in a 'defeat'
> switch to the ABS fuse...

You'd be defeating other things as well.  Including, to some
extend, quattro (i.e. the EDL portion of it).

Dan Masi
'96 A4Q