Re: EVO magazine, May & June

["Jouko Haapanen" <joukoh@vtoy.fi>]

Twelve months of MB ownership, GBP12000 in restoration/maintenance costs so
far.  Exhaust still makes contact time to time with the diff and the
driveshaft tunnel, still need a set of new 8" R8's, etc.

As if that is not enough of a beating, I'm considering going ahead with the
RS2 powered sleeper project.  I'll have to figure how to get that digital
speedo to register over 255km/h, especially considering or 80/100/120km/h
speed limits...otherwise I'll never know if the officer is telling the
truth.

Jouko Haapanen
Pori, Finland

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Haseltine <Jim@ur-q.freeserve.co.uk>
Cc: quattro@audifans.com <quattro@audifans.com>
Date: 14. toukokuuta 1999 2:08
Subject: Re: EVO magazine, May & June


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Phil Payne <quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk>
>>  As you know, MBs are money pits - his
>>emphasis on how wonderful the bodywork and interior is entirely
>>misses the point - what about the brake accumulator, servo, clutch
>>master cylinder, etc.?
>
>
>Concur. I figure that I've got off lightly with my car so far (this might
be
>something to do with the PO having spent over GBP4000 in the six months
that
>he owned it) but over the last two years it has cost me some GBP2000
(GBP600
>so far this month) on parts - not counting plugs, filters, oil and other
>consumable type components. It still requires 5 215/50 15 tyres and the
>wheels refurbushing - oh, and a respray wouldn't go amiss either....
>
>Jim Haseltine
>
>
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