RE: My "new" Audi

[Aleksander Mierzwa <alex@matrix.com.pl>]

Which proves that Lada was still the best car manufactured in communist
countries.
My parent's Polish Fiat 125 needed new engine at 30000km and had _lot_
of rust being 6 years old. Their next car, rear-engined Skoda 120 needed
new timing chain at 9000km (!!!) and we had to add oil every 100km. And
this car was export version brought from Finland. My uncle's Lada Samara
1500, on the other side, made over 100000km with no serious problems and
the ride quality and performance were quite impressive, especially
considering that the car was very cheap.
BTW, since we already are off-topic and talk Russian cars (sorry for
wasted BW): does anyone from our Russian or Russian-American contingent
know when the new Volga 3105 is scheduled to enter production? From what
I've heard, this car is going to have 3.5l V8 engine and full-time AWD
(!). I've seen the pictures of the prototypes and it looks quite
impressive. Any ideas how much is it going to cost?

Aleksander Mierzwa
Warsaw, Poland
mailto:alex@matrix.com.pl
87 Audi 5000CS turbo (mine)
88 Renault Medallion wagon (mom's)
91 mountain bike (just in case both cars broke at the same time :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	four_rings@juno.com [SMTP:four_rings@juno.com]
> Sent:	Friday, December 12, 1997 10:04 AM
> To:	quattro@coimbra.ans.net
> Subject:	Re: My "new" Audi
> 
> [...]
> My Audis would've quit, my bullet-proof VW Fox would've quit and I am
> not
> even talking about my Ladas, which required valves readjusted; points
> cleaned, regaped and retimed;  plugs, cap and rotor cleaned and the
> carb
> disassembled and soaked in Acetone for cleaning every 10000km
> (6000mi).
> Aaah, and the camshaft had to be replaced after 34000km, coz it was
> rounded off. And the U- and Ball Joints lasted for about 25000km. And
> the
> engine needed new rings at 100000km (60000mi).
> [...]
> 
> --
> Igor Kessel
> '89 200TQ - 18psi (TAP), also Tornado Red
> '98 A4TQ - coming soon, Pearl White
> Philadelphia, PA
> USA