RE: S4 buying gotchas

[Phil Rose <pjrose@servtech.com>]

>Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 15:20:22 -0500
>From: "Duff, Ian" <IDuff@bisys.com>
>Subject: RE: S4 buying gotchas
>
>Absent this 200 vs S4 "mine's bigger", folklore has it that early S4s had weak
>transmissions. Audi literature claims "prices and specifications subject to
>change without notice", usually because they don't build any two alike. More
>folklore has it that transmissions continually got better as Audi did
>survivability testing on customer cars. Beware ANY transmission noise,

I think the statistics regarding S4 tranny problems take that aspect beyond
the realm of "folklore". It was a sufficient ""gotcha" to keep me in a '91
200q mode. Of course an S4 with a new, factory-installed tranny would be
cool.


Phil Rose				Rochester, NY
'91 200q				mailto:pjrose@servtech.com
'89 100