[MBZ] "Way, way wrong"

[Alex Chamberlain]

On 5/1/06, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
>
> I was remarking to a friend the other day that when I'm shopping the
> bottom end of the used car market, as I tend to do, any search for a car
> tends to involve test-driving at least one example that's a genuine
> threat to life and limb.  I bet we could have a whole thread of people
> relating their experiences with scary mechanical defects in used cars!
>
>
>
I test-drove a clapped-out early-'80s Audi Turbo Quattro coupe (yeah, the
rare one) that was scary fast when the boost came on.  Wouldn't have been so
scary except that the struts were totally gone, so cornering was pretty
iffy.  Also, maybe they're all like that, but this one really seemed to have
a fuel-delivery problem analogous to the ALDA being out of adjustment on a
603... it was deceptively sluggish up until 3000 rpm, and then took off like
a scalded cat (turbo boosters, Kitt!).

Alex Chamberlain
'87 300D Turbo
'93 Isuzu Trooper