Re: lightweight coupe/ur-q boot lids...

["Jim Haseltine" <Jim_Haseltine@email.msn.com>]

From: JustaxPHX@aol.com <JustaxPHX@aol.com>



>My U.S.-spec '85 Ur-Q has one and based upon something I read way-back-when
in
>a UK car magazine, it was claimed to be a mixture of Kevlar and fiberglass
...

I've seen 3 or 4 smashed ones and they look like GRP to me - if there's any
Kevlar in there its well hidden...

>Interestingly, a buddy of mine in the UK has an '87 Ur-Q and his has the
steel
>trunk lid ... although he isn't the original owner, he bought it from him
(a
>friend) and the car's complete history is known to him.  I wonder when Audi
>decided to install which one on which car?
Most sources reckon that GRP lids started to be fitted when the MB engined
Ur-qs appeared, thats late 87, but who knows for sure? I strongly suspect
that the guys in the Ur-q assembly hall fitted whatever was to hand at the
time. This would explain a number of anomalies, such as late model 10v's
being fitted with early sequence MB engines.

Jim Haseltine