[rescue] Cisco hardware quest

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Sun Feb 17 17:08:30 CST 2008


Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> On Feb 17, 2008, at 4:02 PM, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> 
>> Jonathan Katz wrote:
>>> On Feb 15, 2008, at 9:11 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
>>>> It's like what happened on my 1999 Audi A8.  Audi said there was no 
>>>> reason to replace the trans fluid, ever, that it was a "lifetime 
>>>> fluid" good for the transmission's lifetime.
>>>>
>>>> Which was true, in that when the fluid degraded the transmission 
>>>> would reach the end of its lifetime shortly thereafter and would be 
>>>> no good.    All the cars that are having problems are past thei Audi 
>>>> warranty period.
>>> You had a D2 A8, too? We had one for 3 or 4 years and drove it until 
>>> it blew up (head gasket.) God love Audi depreciation, providing 
>>> badass cars at cheap prices to the masses.
>>
>> I own a depreciated D2 A8 as well.  Excellent cars.
> 
> How many miles and how is the transmission?

105,000 miles.  Transmission's fine.  Was planning on doing the fluid 
and gear oils soon.

Peace...  Sridhar



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