Re: WARNING: A4 headlights are crazy

[Steve Manning <stephenm@ix.netcom.com>]

Nope, no cracks on mine ('97 A4tq)............SLM

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At 11:33 AM 8/5/98 -0400, Mark Quinn wrote:
>Well they are ... though that's not quite what I meant!
>
>At a recent get-together of the "Capitol Audi Club" (i.e.
>Washinton/Baltimore Audi (ab)Users Group),  I happened
>to notice on two out of three A4's that the headlight
>lenses had started to 'craze' (i.e. they had many tiny
>crack lines in the plastic of the lens) mostly the area
>in front of the of the outer (low beam?) bulbs.  I can
>imagine that this would diffuse the light even more than
>the stock US pattern - apart from the longevity concerns
>of the lenses themselves.
>
>It so happens that these were both '98 models (a 1.8tq and
>a 2.8q) whereas my car (a '97 2.8q) did not seem to have
>the problem.
>
>I would urge the A4 owners out there to check their lenses
>and report back if this is endemic.  Dealership calls are
>probably in order for those with the problem.
>
>-Mark Quinn