twisties and tythes

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>i welcome your ideas and hope that sometime i can attend a track event and
>learn how to deal with these strange happenings.
>mike
>86 5kcdtq   

Mike,
I will presume the diffs unlocked.  Couple of thoughts.  Sounds like you have
a worn rear suspension.  My guess is that the combination of the worn tires,
the sand, and the weight all thru the car off.  I find all quattro cars to be
tough at 90 degrees+, and usually on Gen I's  I take the loop and catch the
spin.  Very predictable, and you don't have to fight anything.  My advice is
to get the tires matched and in good shape, and maybe take a hard look at the
big spherical rubber bushings in your rear control arms.  When you weight
those down with a lot of stuff in the trunk, and they are marginal, they tend
to make the rear of the car "steer" and usually in an "outwardly" manner.
While you are there ck the camber lateral links too.  

This is not a diff problem, this is some driver error, and a routine
maintenance one, IMO.  No quattro beyond 90 degrees of slip angle is "easy" to
drive.  Looks like a combo of factors got ya.  As a motorcyclist, I hear
"sand" I think "ice", same thing in predictability.

HTH

Scott Justusson
QSHIPQ@aol.com