Poor old quattro
 

Err no can see. . ..

http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...1&d=1388863677

Which country are you in:Confused:

Still works fine for me

I'm here in the UK as usual lol :rolleyes:

Working for me as well, on BT broadband.

Perhaps visit www.speedtest.net and see where it thinks you are. its possible your ISP is using an IP address block allocated outside the UK.

Nope that all checks out fine and says where I am correctly :Confused:

weird, try typing "where am i" as a google search, mine comes back as weybridge, but at least thats in the UK.

Comes back as Swindon (which is where I was) and when I allow my current location it says I'm in oxfordshire which is where I am now, so all correct. Very odd

It's private video from Russia anyway so it should work for anyone anywhere without any copyright restrictions.

I had the same error as Neil...also using uk ip...

...strange!

Oli

Oh well at least it confirms that I wasn't going mad lol

Me to, and the video works OK. :Confused:

Here you go, Its weird as I couldn't look at it on my Ipad but could on the laptop ???

Amazing where the old girl could drag herself with them winter tyres and quattro.

If your pc says attachment.php when you download it, rename it to end .mp4 and it will play.

Thanks Del, was obviously an iPad thing then as I was on one. Worked fine as an mp4 +++ Certainly a testament to the benefits of quattro when you think that the car is probably a bit long which doesn't help it, he must have pi$$ed off a few of the 4x4 owners haha

love it! that audi has been used to the max!
cant believe it beat those little Nivas.

Nivas only have centre diff lock unless modified, that old quattro have rear and centre diff locks so that definitely helps.

On our D2's is it a open differential in the rear and the front?

Yes, all open. Lift one wheel in the air and you are not going anywhere it will just spin that 1 wheel at 4x the speed. On the old quattros if you had good grip for at least one rear wheel or both front wheels it would still pull when diffs locked.

Maybe you both have parental controls applied - its a (car) abuse video.:(

I's Apple control or they were holding it wrong:ROFL:

I'm glad some one reminded me about the diffs, so with the diffs being open and not LSD.

How is the car going to perform in snow and icy roads?

Does the esp brake the wheel with least traction to force torque back to the opposite side of the diff?

I understand there is a Torsen centre diff but it will only send torque to front or rear and if the receiving axle has traction problems also the car is really only a two wheel drive.

Should have Torsen diffs front, centre and rear IMO

When I was on the way back home the other day and there was a huge hailstorm and I gave her a little squeeze on the go pedal while doing about 40 and immediately she went out of shape with the esp kicking in and killing power not really impressed tbh

Can't comment on D3 but D2 in the snow is lots of fun +++ 1st gear, flat out bouncing off the rev limiter, ye har

Esp off I guess :D

I have found the D3 much less fun in the snow than the D2, but does seem to be more sure-footed, but with more electronics than the space shuttle, I'd expect it to :)

I don't have it :D i'm pre all that electrical fun retarding stuff

Same here+++

Yes, ESP brakes the wheel which start spinning. Pre ESP like mine and Dezzy's does the same with EDL but only at slow speeds and does not reduce engine output. Brake force is limited so if you have one wheel without grip at all (in the air) you are still not going anywhere.

Don't know what the internals are made from, can you weld the diff up? Rear anyway. Or i suppose just buying a real off roader like the Land8 would be easier.

Dezzy man are you serious? Weld the diff up! its not some 2.8 injection Granada that I'm prepping for the stock car racing :ROFL:

Nothing wrong with the 2.8 i Grandad

We did it once on Mazda 626, front diff that is as that's the only one it had. It broke on the Mazda we were just having fun with in the fields so we welded it up to keep car going. Man was the steering heavy after that, no power steering, you could grow arms like Popeye driving it.

http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...1&d=1389027869

Mk2 Escort with a 1.6 Kent (i think) engine, diff welded up. I thought i was Jimmy Mcrae.

And now it's all popular again but called "drifting" and not being a "nob head"

LINK

Some MK2 arse out porn for you

video

I just read a bit more about the Torsen, it sounds like it will lock up and send power to the front or back whichever has more grip. So it seems that you would have to have one wheel in the air on the rear axle and one in the air on the front to get completely stuck.

Although, reading on, it does seem that you are right, one wheel off the ground situation is not good:

"In the extreme, for a centre differential implementation, complete loss of traction on a single wheel will result in very limited torque to the other three wheels. Audi responded to this limitation for the first Torsen-equipped cars by adding a manually locking rear differential and then later replaced this feature with Electronic Differential Lock (EDL), which is the ability to use the individual wheel brakes (monitored by the ABS sensors) to limit individual wheel spin. EDL was implemented across both front and rear (open) differentials to operate at speeds < 80 km/h. This has the effect of increasing torque from a single low-traction wheel hence allowing more torque to be passed by the Torsen to the remaining high-traction wheels."