Accident (with mild rant)

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

In message <3558958A.85CFBBB0@nh.ultranet.com> Huw Powell writes:

> > It's amazing how people refuse to acknowledge that, if the stupid
> > tart had been wearing her seatbelt, the Heir Apparent and his brother
> > would probably not be going through the formative years of adolescence
> > without their mother.
>
> Hear, hear!

Equally annoying is the fact that their father (also not known for his
intellect) _STILL_ never wears a belt in public himself, and has been
seen driving them with all three unbelted.

Audi note (there has to be one, somewhere) - I took the opportunity of
the absence from the car of the driver's seat to replace the seatbelt.

I figured that it had had 160k miles of pulling about, grit, folding,
twisting and suchlike - and I remembered (as any mountaineer present
will also remember) the training I got in the characteristics of tapes
and slings when I was a 'climber'.

So I ordered a new belt for the driver's side.  I also ordered a new
cam cover gasket for the Passat, and so I was not surprised to receive
one long box and one short one.

What blew me away was - the gasket was in the short box, and the belt
in the long one.

The gasket first - many of us have long maintained that the
longtitudinally ribbed rubber cam cover gasket was better than the cork
original.  Audi now agree (it seems) and ordering the old cork gasket
produces a new rubber one.  The old long box is thus replaced by a
compact square one.

The belt was even more of a surprise - Audi also ship the long 'wire'
thing that the captive end of the ur-quattro belt runs along.  This
explains the long box.  Replacing it was a three-minute snap, and I
think it's well worth doing to an old belt.

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 Phil Payne
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