4kq battery relocation

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <01INH29QYDXE92D7PP@delphi.com> audidudi@delphi.com (Jeffrey J. Goggin) writes:

> ... I'll be happy to send you a list of reference books to consult ...
> probably the best $2-300 you can spend on your car if you're planning to
> tinker with it.

I am amazed at how often new ur-quattro owners come up to me at area meetings
and exhibit complete ignorance of their cars.  We've had one memorable case
of a man who didn't know the car had a turbo and 'wouldn't have bought it' if
he'd known.  One had been charged a pretty reasonable 20v price for a 1983 WR,
and another had been charged a reasonable 1986 WR price for a 1990 20v in what
looked like excellent condition.  I've even had one case of someone who'd put
a stronger spring into an MB wastegate and hadn't touched the ECU.  Durrr!

At a recent area meeting I commented that four-wheel optical alignment was
necessary every now and then, and an owner agreed with me, saying he had a
'full alignment' done every 10,000 miles.  As it happened, I'd just been under
the back of his car and the rear tie bars were rusted to h@ll.

We checked the printout his garage had given him with the bill.  A full
Coupe GT alignment - only the front wheels, and the wrong settings for
those.  He'd been going on all night about all kinds of fancy suspension
packages 'to improve the handling' - all it needed was a stock alignment.

I often wonder how many people are driving around in cars that are pale shadows
of the performance that Audi intended, merely because whoever is servicing the
car doesn't really have a clue.

-- 
 Phil Payne
 Committee Member, UK Audi [ur-]quattro Owners Club