Locking Brakes on Quattros?

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

In message <933713F1FB7BD111AC2300A0C98F1AD1775162@milxpr06.kla-tencor.com> "Buchholz, Steven" writes:

> > I picked up that pulling e-brake turns can damage the quattro drive train.
> >
> ... is that right?  I don't think so.  By definition, every time you are
> running in anything other than a straight line, each of the four wheels
> covers a different distance!

I think this is from a recent TWOC (taking without owners consent) in
which a couple of yobs rode around in a quattro with the diffs locked
for a few hundred miles, trying to work out what was so special about
quattro.

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