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Tony Hwang

rbowman wrote:
On 09/28/2015 08:10 PM, wrote:
One of those Audi 100s that punctured it's own tires when you parked
them overnight (when the springs broke)?

It never did that. The plug wires would fail every 15,000 miles. No
graceful degradation, it just wouldn't start. I kept a set in the trunk.
Getting the windshield wiper to turn off sometimes required pulling a
relay out from under the dash. It wasn't really the cars fault, but it
had Autobahn gearing right about the time the idiots in DC declared a 55
mph speed limit. Then it overheated one frosty morning. I guess
antifreeze was optional. There weren't any major problems just the water
torture of minor annoyances.

When we divorced my wife got the Audi and I kept the Lincoln. I
shouldn't have treated the woman so poorly. The paint was starting to
fall off before she traded it in on a Rabbit and got $300 for it. She
called me up and asked if that wasn't too low. I told her to take the
deal and not look back.

Now Audi has self destructing timing belt at 60K miles...?