Hey guys I bought my car thinking it was a Quattro since it had the badges and all, and I was lined up with a guy who wanted to swap his performance exhaust for my stock one. We made sure that we were both 1.8TQM, and then Iget a call from the place we were having the work done telling me that my car was not Quattro, but in fact FWD! Sooo ya, I'm pretty mad about that, but I dont understand how it cannot be Quattro since the engine is lined up parallel to the car, which most of the time means rear or AWD. Is there some way that Audi configures their enginesparallel to the car but still maintains FWD? And if not, is there some other way to tell if the car is Quattro or not besides the badges? Thanks for any responses.

 

is there a driveshaft ?

is there a rear differential, or just like an ibeam

 

can you spin the tires off the line or when shifting? im a 5 speed quattro and it grabes second hardddd it would spin no problem if it was FWD

 

Should be very noticeable wether it is fwd or quattro, evenwithout having to spin the tires to find out. Or you could just look under the car, which any smart buyer would do when purchasing a vehicle.

 

cant belive someone would go through the trouble to put all of the quattro badges on the car

i think the shop is just a bunch of idiots

 

how long sence u bought it? if its not a quattro there has to be some kinda legal stuff for doing that woudlnt u think?

 

see if there is a drive shaft going to the rear of the car

 

Thats what I thought about putting the badges on...why would you do that unless it was actually quattro...anyway...this is what my engine looks like, and the pistons seemed to be lined up parallel to the car which on most cars means either rear or AWD...could anyone possibly post a pic of their FWD engine so I could compare(I dont have my car right now so I cant check to see if I have a driveshaft/rear differential. And do the FWD engines look the same or are they configured differently? Thanks

 

yea, its mounted the same as quattro
http://audizine.com/forum/showthread...light=fwd+pics

here is some guys fwd

 

this is a funny tread