Re: Galvanized body panels

["Ian J Haseltine" <jim_haseltine@email.msn.com>]

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From: Phil Payne <quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk>


>In message <v04003a02b1d012bb460c@[10.1.1.5]> Brett Dikeman writes:
>
>> The Audi panels and frame are ALWAYS galvanized.  The ONLY exception is
the
>> all-aluminium body A8 and the 1983-84 and younger cars.  Starting around
>> there, the entire frame is hot-galvanized.
>
>The deeper you dig, the more worms you find.  The ur-quattro was
>never completely galvanised - not even the 1991 models.
Especially around the rear end. Currently I have the back end of a 89 20v
Urq shell in my garden and the holes around the boot lid hinges have to be
seen to be believed. I rather suspect that there may be matching ones
underneath the hinges on my car too.

Jim Haseltine