Re: OPINION WANTED : Audi as a "consumer" vehicle (long)

["Tomas Leveckis" <leveckis@ici.net>]

Not you silly....the guy who said not to get a quattro......sorry for the
miss......

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Williams <daserde@ucla.edu>
To: Tomas Leveckis <leveckis@ici.net>; quattro <quattro@coimbra.ans.net>
Date: Wednesday, July 29, 1998 4:05 AM
Subject: Re: OPINION WANTED : Audi as a "consumer" vehicle (long)


>Tomas Leveckis decided to speak these words:
>
>>    I dont understand this one.  I have never heard of the quattro system
>>    costing anything as far as maintainance...am i wrong?  i just dont
>>    consider it ia maintainance item...i dunno
>>
>>    later...
>>
>>Statements like that without substantiation should be ignored........
>
>
>Okie, how bout you just jump on me asap huh?
>
>How bout i elaborate to make you happy.  I consider it to be essentially
>a non maintainance item due to the fact that my car has the original
>components of the q system. This includes orig tranny, rear diff,
>driveshaft, rear CV's rear CV boots etc etc....perhaps my statement only
>applies to the 4kq...
>
>However i rarely on this list hear of someone who has a failure of the
>system itself.  If anything, its going to be the vacuum lines or
>something relatively cheap...nothing expensive breaks except under
>extreme circumstances...as far as i know...
>
>is that better?
>
>later...
>
>
>Michael Sheridan Williams
>ICQ# 11740998
>
>1985 4000 S Quattro 182,000+ miles, Turbo conversion soon?, Koni
>Yellows/2Bennett, strut brace, Sport 8000 Tires, K&N, MOMO 4pt harnesses,
>Hella XL Driving lights (2x135w), magnecor wires....<out of breath>
>1986 Oceanic Blue, 4000CS Quattro--Parting Out(ask if you want anything)
>My father's: 1986 4000 CS Quattro--Graphite 161,000 miles
>
>http://members.aol.com/daserde2
>
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