q misadventure

[Tom Nas <tnas@euronet.nl>]

Hi all,

A fun meeting with Ingo Rautenberg from Detroit ended in misadventure
today. I was trying to get him to the train station in time, after having
spent far too much time at the Audi importer's showroom- being in a hurry,
I was looking for the right way to the station in Utrecht's dreadful
one-way nightmare. I noticed a red traffic light and braked, but the road
was wet and slippery (recent heavy rainfall, and I guess a bit of oil on
the road surface) and I ended up just hitting the rear end of a VW Caddy
van at low speed. Four times nothing equals nothing... The van looked like
it didn't have a scratch (it was brand new and thie impact was at less than
walking speed), but my grill and one of my foglight glasses had both
cracked, and the metal strip under the grill is bent a bit. If I hadn't
been so distracted and preoccupied with looking for the right way, I could
even have steered around him. $%#$^$%^!
Now that grill was cracked and incomplete already, and the foglight glass
was sandblasted and needed replacement anyway, but I didn't need it this
way...

One extra worry on top- yesterday, while driving on the highway, I noticed
the coolant temperature of my car moving up to just below 120 C... and in
heavy traffic in Utrecht this morning it even boiled over, losing a lot of
coolant. There's nothing obviously wrong with the radiator, the coolant
tank's brand new, but I've noticed that the afterrun fan won't come on. On
top of that, the automatic fan doesn't cut in while I'm stationary. Fan
motor? Sensor? I'll be investigating further this afternoon...

Tom

 _______________________________________________________________________
 Tom Nas                                          Zeist, The Netherlands
 tnas@euronet.nl
 1987 Audi 90q 2.3E, Tizianrot metallic, 164,000km

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