<FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=blue size=3>Hey whats up guys just thought Id give you an Update Im gettin my 17 inch tires friday so I can put my rims on<IMG src=smileys/smiley20.gif border="0">. Ill be givin them a good test too Friday night Im ganna drive to Buffalo NY area from Eastern IA </FONT></P>


<FONT color=#0000ff size=3>225 45 17 Goodyear Eagle RSAs Ill try to get Pics for you guys when I get back in a week er so Later guys</FONT></P>


<FONT color=#0000ff size=3> <IMG src=smileys/smiley2.gif border="0">SPRING BREAK<IMG src=smileys/smiley2.gif border="0"></FONT></P>

 

sweet! pics pics pics!!!!
what kind of rims?

 

those miglia belos I got from ebay theres a pic of them here somewhere

 

hey whats up guys yeah those tires are pretty good...here in NY chillin out </P>


My steering got progressively worse along the 1000 mile trip though what do you call the steering knukle where the steering arm connects to the suspension....cant think of the name for the life of me gatta get some prices</P>


still workin on the pics Ill see if my lady friend here has a digi cam Lata guys gatta go get a piece<IMG src=smileys/smiley2.gif border="0"></P>

 

how bout driver side outer tie rod.

 

yah dude tie rods....duh ....thanks</P>


actualy there both toast left/right... wernt that bad until this winter now there really bad almost afraid to drive home on them</P>

 

<FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color=blue size=4>Hey guys thought Id give yah another update I got pics coming when ever my lady friend out east scans em and emails them to me which might be a little while due to the unpredictable nature of females. </FONT></P>


<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#0000ff size=4>Yah the trip went pretty good except for one serious problem I tell yah about....but I got 45.5 MPGs on the trip not bad eh?... especialy considering that small 120 mph excursion I had in PA with some ******* in an eclipse.....I always race eclipses that have blue smoke coming out the tail pipe<IMG src=smileys/smiley4.gif border="0">makes me feel good!</FONT></P>


<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#0000ff size=4>Yeah so I got all they way to chicago from syracuse and I noticed the car was acting a little funny not really that bad but noticeable after about 36 hoursin the sadle in a week...Then I start smelling gasoline really bad (like holy s**t my eyes are burning and I wanna puke) bad..</FONT></P>


<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#0000ff size=4>So I drove for a while to get out of the middle of chicago and off the skyway which on the westbound lane is down to 3/4 of a lane due to constuction and about this time it started raining like a motorscooter. So I finaly stop wit the engine runing get out and look wit my flashlight (night time) and immeadiately see the problem....my return fuel line was was having serious issues with gas retention in fact it wasnt retaining any just kinda pissing iton my turbo.......</FONT></P>


<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#0000ff size=4>so yeah Ive been on the road 10hours about now and maybe normaly I would have relized the implications of allthis incoming stimuli....But at the time I just kinda said "oooh that sucks" </FONT></P>


<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#0000ff size=4>It was about this point that the gasoline ignited only then spuring me into action after shutting the engine down the fire died down pretty quick (Thank god for the freak rainstorm) and the fact that theres not much around the turbo to burn.</FONT></P>


<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#0000ff size=4>When I left I brought most of my tools with me "just in case" I even caught some smack talk from a friend in NY who was like what are you doin wit 200lbs of tools in there. Granted all I used was a razor knife to trim the really bad part of hose and a flexy 1/8 inch socket driver to tighten the hose clamp....but you neva know what youll need in the middle of nowhere right? </FONT></P>


<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#0000ff size=4>anyways to make along story longer....I limped home still leaking a decent amount of petro the last 200miles...</FONT></P>

 

Note: audi does not recoment the use of of worm drive type hose clamps....who knew eh?<IMG src=smileys/smiley29.gif border="0">

 

holy crap, man. You actually caught on fire? First thing I thought of when I read "my return fuel line was was having serious issues with gas retention in fact it wasnt retaining any just kinda pissing it on my turbo......." was that he's lucky it never went up in flames!

 

Lol yeah I was thinkin the same thing when I was lookin at it....</P>


But everything is ok I managed to keep my eyebrows but the heat shield is slightly blackend though but it will probly wash off</P>