Fixes, Embellishments & Winning Awards
Posted on Aug 27, 2024
It was over a year since our last update on this car. Not unusual as it spends a lot of time waiting to be fixed. That was the case after last year’s Northville concours as you may remember the passenger side window regulator mechanism packed up again the week before. This time the cable wheel disintegrated.
As our Quattro window regulator guru, WG, was busy fixing his own car it sat again. We did fix some other issues while it had a rest however. Namely the driver's door pocket and handbrake boot. The handbrake boot had come unglued from it frame and was a bugger to disassemble.
We celebrated these little victories by adding this embellishment:
In late spring our guru chap came over and rebuilt our passenger window regulator, hopefully for the last time.
We also replaced the driver's side window switch twice as that failed too!
We were excited when the car was invited to the Eyes On Design concours at the Ford House in Gross Point and hoped the windows would behave themselves. They did but the car decided it didn't want to idle. Nor did it want to start for a few minutes if we let it stall. We struggled it on and off the field where it failed to win being beaten out by a Ford Probe and a Plymouth Prowler. Was a strange day but we had fun anyway.
The stalling issue turned out to be nothing more than a loose dipstick so that was the easiest and cheapest Quattro fix ever!
The car's latest adventure was to be part of our display at the Woodward Dream Show during Woodward Dream Cruise. Despite getting rained on 2 or 3 times the car behaved almost flawlessly and even won an award.
There are no more events planned for the car other than trying to diagnose a hesitation on boost before we run out of season. We're sure that will be as easy a fix as the dip stick issue.
As our Quattro window regulator guru, WG, was busy fixing his own car it sat again. We did fix some other issues while it had a rest however. Namely the driver's door pocket and handbrake boot. The handbrake boot had come unglued from it frame and was a bugger to disassemble.
We celebrated these little victories by adding this embellishment:
In late spring our guru chap came over and rebuilt our passenger window regulator, hopefully for the last time.
We also replaced the driver's side window switch twice as that failed too!
We were excited when the car was invited to the Eyes On Design concours at the Ford House in Gross Point and hoped the windows would behave themselves. They did but the car decided it didn't want to idle. Nor did it want to start for a few minutes if we let it stall. We struggled it on and off the field where it failed to win being beaten out by a Ford Probe and a Plymouth Prowler. Was a strange day but we had fun anyway.
The stalling issue turned out to be nothing more than a loose dipstick so that was the easiest and cheapest Quattro fix ever!
The car's latest adventure was to be part of our display at the Woodward Dream Show during Woodward Dream Cruise. Despite getting rained on 2 or 3 times the car behaved almost flawlessly and even won an award.
There are no more events planned for the car other than trying to diagnose a hesitation on boost before we run out of season. We're sure that will be as easy a fix as the dip stick issue.