Re: Wiper Upgrade for older 5000s

["Douglas Hurst Quebbeman" <dougq@iglou.com>]

> My 88 5000 has the pivot below the hood line, so, seeing this is the last
> year of the 5000, all of the 5000s have this style of wiper.  Next time I'm
> at the wreckers I will just have to go see!

Oops! We just slipped into a semantic problem, easily resolved.

I reluctantly go along with the marketing travesty of calling the 
Audi 100 a 5000 if imported between the years 1978-1988. But
it was always really a model 100; from 1970 to 1976, we had
the original C-type car, in the form of the 100, the 100s, the 
100ls, the 100gl, and in Europe, even a 100 Coupe. The 1977 model 
year in Europe brought forth the first C2-type 100, which was not
imported into the US until 1978. Beginning with 1989, the C3-type
finally gots its righteous and proper designation of 100 back.

Anyway, if I say 5000, I rarely am trying to make some kind of
specific (and largely artificial) distinction between the US and
global versions of this car. So, I may refer to late model 5000s and
mean model years after 1988. Sorry if this was confusing!

hth,
doug

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-Douglas Hurst Quebbeman (dougq@iglou.com)            [Call me "Doug"]
74 100LS Auto, 77 100LS Auto, 84 Coupe GT, 86 5Kcstq
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