Re: Use your quattro

[Andrew Duane USG/PE <duane@zk3.dec.com>]

Hairy green toads from Mars made Ian J Haseltine say:

> Like the title says - use your quattro, dont let it stand idle in a garage,
> things will go wrong.
> 
> Because of a broken collar bone and various other injuries (courtesy of a
> Citroen driver who doesn't know what stop lines are for) I havent been able
> to drive my Ur-q for 12 days. Today I couldn't take the cold turkey any
> longer so I struggled into the drivers seat and moved it out of my garage in
> to the open air and ran the engine for a few minutes. During the last 12
> days the car has developed an oil leak from one of the turbo lines and now
> makes a 'doingk' sound from the servo when I apply the brakes. It obviously
> doesn't like standing still and it knows that I wont be able to fix anything
> for another week or so.

AMEN!

When I bought my A6QW, my 100Q got retired to the bottom of the
driveway. It sat for two weeks (in the rain :-( no less). Since
then, at least half a dozen things have gone wrong.

Wouldn't start for three days. Then the fuel pump died. Then the
A/C spewed it's ozone-destorying charge into the clean NH air.
Then the fix for my fresh/recirc flap broke. Then the seat memory
switch died.

I think it's getting even for being "put out to pasture".


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