The "Bomb" (was: Pentosin flush>

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

In message <Pine.SUN.3.96.971028090158.6810A-100000@k2.bdti.com> Soren Juelsgaard writes:

> '89 100Q with 162.000 mi and still humming :)

I parked the ur-quattro in the Audi car park at the Donington event last 
weekend, and left a small 'screed' in the rear windows for anyone passing by to 
read what a quattro is all about.  One of the things it mentioned was 147800 
miles on the original engine.
 
Just before I left, I had a short technical discussion with a fellow MB owner, 
which led to us idling the engine with the bonnet open and fiddling with a 
couple of the bits and pieces.  We were fairly busy - but someone came up to me 
from the rear of the car and queried the odometer mileage.  I said it was 
correct - he cocked an ear at the engine and asked if I was sure that no one 
had wound the odometer _FORWARDS_!

He seemed very impressed that a 150k mile engine could just hum like that. 

300k - here we come!

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