Another weekend, another wrenching session ...

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

There are _FOUR_ personal cheques awaiting clearance here today.

Saturday's 'appraisal' session up in Barton on Humber resulted in the
purchase of the car but the timing belt, idler roller, water pump and
inter-cam chain ned replacement.  Cheque #1.

Yesterday saw three visits to the Mill House.  The first was a Pearlescent
White MB ur-quattro with 'fueilng problems'.  Yup.  A 'Lehmnn' (but is it
really?) chip modification with a Mark I Schrappnelknobbel.  Can't pull
diagnostics.  Blown 'check engine light'?  No - no bulb.  Pull the
steering wheel, pull the dashboard - put a bulb in.  It doesn't go out.
Ever.  Use the fuse - '1111'.  Where have we seen that before?  Homework
time, and he's due back in two weeks.  Cheque #2

Next up is a guy from Wolverhampton with a 200T FWD.  'Ticking'.  Yup -
a manifold you can hear several blocks away.  But the big surprise -
he's paid less than $3000 for the car - he's got a full-spec MC-2 engine
driven by a MAC14.  From seeing one in three years, I've bought one and
seen another in a week.  MkI WoT switch is dead and inlet air
temperature sensor (as always) is defective - fix 'em both and he goes
for a test drive.

There's no adequate way to describe the stupid grin on the face of an
owner who comes back knowing he did a real dumb thing - he bought a car
thinking it was great, and now he knows just how great it is!

I've seen it several times - at Area K with the 20V, at Coy's with the
lad from Barnsley, and yesterday.  They just walk around the garage
muttering to themselves with this stupid, stupid and utterly unerasable
GRIN from ear to ear.  All for a MkII WoT switch.  Cheque #3

Final session was a Golf VR6.  The least said the better - this is the
UK-only version with dysfunctional diagnostic connectors and it's
taking a while.  More next week.  Cheque #4.

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 Phil Payne
 UK Audi quattro Owners Club
 Phone: 0385 302803   Fax: 0870 0883933