RE: experience with Black leather?

["Ian J Haseltine" <Jim_Haseltine@msn.com>]

>Why is it that you can buy any p.o.s. Japanese, Korean, US or Australian
>car and get an air con that will just about freeze your beer but if you pay
>the premium , and buy a European luxury car you get an air con which is
>barely capable of coping with the UV gain in winter?

Probably 'cos in European countries that build luxury cars the mean 
temperatures aren't exactly tropical. There are warm spells but most years you 
can count the really hot days on the fingers of one hand. I like to be warmer 
than most in the UK, and up to a month back still had my heating on for a 
couple of hours every day in the house. When I worked in Belgium I was pleased 
to find that the general temperature of office buildings there was about 5 deg 
F higher than in the UK.
Most of the people I know who run cars with air con use it to clear the 
screens and warm the car more often than they use the cooling cycle.

I sometimes wish that our colonial friends would stop mentioning winter 
temperatures like 70 deg, and leather seats too hot to sit on. As if petrol 
prices so low that my six year old daughter could fill the tank of my quattro 
and still have most of her pocket money left, wasnt enough for them. :-)

Jim Haseltine
88 Ur quattro - no air con
'If I really was a polar bear I wouldnt be so f***ing cold all the time'

BTW - If anyone in the north of England has got a black leather Ur quattro 
interior for sale - let me know