RoQueTT

Did anyone discover the actual documented data on how and why leaving your key in the TT quattro ignition for more than 30 minutes irretrievably buggers up the Haldex?

What are the symptoms anyway?

Is my Haldex screwed? My key got left in the ignition overnight.

Boosted

oil that it gets screwed...probably key activates small clutch or something that burns out when not imersed in the spec'd haldex oil, Ive left my key in the ignition when listening to tunes and stuff...never seemed to have any problems...

RoQueTT

Da*n well hope so. Thanx. I'd be less than gruntled if my Q turns into a permanent Frontrack.

TTschwing

<center><img src="http://images.fotki.com/photos/7/7305/52227/mast-vi.jpg?1009203525"></center><p>This is me up the mast of my Bristol. Loved the saying at the bottom of your sig BTW....

Steve

RoQueTT

Lost track of the hours spent in a bosun's chair or more recently a climbing harness. Day or night, sun or snow, calm or screaming gale. Got a few horror stories to tell too.

How about being sent at midnight, as the "lad", to the masthead of a 48 footer in a Mediterrean gale to investigate nasty banging noises, only to discover it was the 17mm 1x19 cap shroud breaking a strand every time we fell off a wave. Got to the top just in time to see the last bunch of strands let go. And with them, down came the rig, baby, cradle and all, although this time the baby was screaming its head off and frantically tring to unshackle itself from the halyard before hitting the water. Holding my breath 30 feet under while trying to wriggle out of the bosun's chair, with the wreckage of mast, main, jib, shrouds, stays and halyards all a-tangle around me, before surfacing and clambering up the remains of the rig to the boat, to find the offwatch crew still pouring out of the hatch on deck. Nasty moment.

Oh, well, I was young then. But not surprising I've got grey hair now.

I send the kids aloft nowadays.

TTschwing

Wow...pretty harrowing tale......

Gnowknayme

I know that doesn't make much sense, but I'm pretty sure that was the way it worked.

BillK

If it really did fry the Haldex, I'd do it, get it replaced, then do it again, ad nauseum.

There's no warning in the owner's manual not to do it, so until they admitted a problem, I'd keep doing it...