RE: '86 4KQ vs. "86 Honda Accord

[mike mcclurg <rrrrraudi@yahoo.com>]

Steven Buchholz:

Great to hear your comments.

I have owned may different makes of cars in my
lifetime with a definite partiality toward foreign,
but my first Audi is an '85 4ksq with 115,000 miles
that I just bought for one of my twin boys who are
seniors in high school (the other one by the way is an
'88 Sterling).

I'm in love with the Audi. The boys are getting tired
of the big grin on my face when I drive it and me
saying how great a car it is and how much I wished it
was mine. They keep saying OK, give us the '94 Toyota
truck. I would like to but I can't.

Anyway, from what I can tell so far (less than a
month), it seems to be a solid car especially in light
of its obvious "sporty" feel. If it wasn't for the
paint, I wouldn't have anything to complain about.

You can bet that if I find another deal like this one,
it will be mine...and I'm looking.

rrrrraudi
'85 4ksq






>--- "Buchholz, Steven"
<Steven.Buchholz@kla-tencor.com> wrote:
> > 
> > What was Audi doing during the '85-'87 period?
> > 
> Making some damn fine cars if you asked me!  I'll
> put my '85 4kSQ
> (approaching 220K miles quickly) up against any
> Honda you want to toss this
> way.  Funny, I was just talking to a guy here at
> work that just picked
> himself up a brand new Crapura Integra to replace
> his Accord from the same
> vintage.  He told me that he was tired of having to
> drive around with a
> gallon of water between his knees so that he could
> top up the radiator every
> so often.  I forgot the laundry list, but it would
> put many of the big Audi
> whiners here to shame.  
> 
> While I'm not so sure about some of the cars that
> came after the mid-80's, I
> for one consider the early-mid '80s to be a good
> time for Audis.  I bought
> my '83 QTC in '86, and it has required little to no
> maintenance after I got
> it sorted out from the state it was in when I bought
> it.  I would tend to
> say though that an Audi will be likely to age better
> when it has proper
> maintenance, and I'd say that having to replace
> multiple door handles is a
> sign that the car you have may not have been.  
> 
> Steve Buchholz
> San Jose, CA (USA)
> 


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