Low audi content (Goodwood FOS + clutch replacement.)

[quk@sievers.com (Phil Payne)]

In message <199706061400.PAA06172@mailserver.nhm.ac.uk> gnt@nhm.ac.uk (Graham Thackrah) writes:

> Dear UK (and a possible small minority of KEEN american) listers,
> 
> Is anyone going to the Goodwood FOS (ho ho) later this month. I'm going for
> all three days and will be camping there somewhere. I'll be flashing my
> lights (and probably setting my wipers off a fair few times in the
> excitement) furiously at every audi I see over ten years old and as one of
> my lights is full of condensation it should be very distinctive! 

Since the event is now sponsored by Audi and all manner of hardware is going
from the factory toybox (the 760bhp Audi 90?) it's likely you'll blow your
headlight bulbs.
 
The world and his dog are going.  Co-ordination via +44 468 578976.

> Secondly, I have just had my clutch replaced (108.5k miles, probably on the
> original, which for uk conditions (plenty of stop starting) is not bad?)
> together with that actuating fork thingy and some sleeve or other. When they
> checked my gearbox they needed to add around 0.5 litre of oil. I would guess
> that it is worth checking the level occasionally, if so should it be as full
> as possible? There is a marked reduction in noise when cruising at speed
> since this was done.

140k is more normal.  One or more of the drivers has at least one bad habit.
 
Checking the gearbox oil level is easy, productive and messy.  The filler is a 
plug on the side with an Allen recess - you wind it out, stick in the gear oil 
bottle's proboscis, and squeeze.  When the stuff overflows and drips in your 
eye, it's full.

--
 Phil Payne
 phil@sievers.com
 Committee Member, UK Audi [ur-]quattro Owners Club