What was accomplished while I was in Germany.
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if i buy the tunze kit TS07, does that control only the 1 stream, or do i need to buy the 7095 multicontroller? i'm just going to run 2 streams (6000). can i buy the streams seperately and add the controller later? wondering how they are powered etc.... and most importantly how was that audi tour? i'm soo jealous u got to see it. about to order a new a4. 
The streams will work without the controller, with two streams the 7095 is definitely better. The TS07 could run a second pump with a branch adapter but the pumps would do the same thing, so you can't set different functions for each pump.
I have toured Audi twice and Mercedes once. They are complete opposites, at Mercedes everything is done by hand even the little antenna and defrost lines on the glass. At Audi everything is very automated. Humans are only involved in the wiring and interior for the most part. I like Audi because it is just unbelievable watching those robots asemble cars from a roll of galvanized steel to a finished car. Hammerstrasse as they call the huge row of presses that stamp out the pieces is something to see and the robotic welders change their own electrodes and just the orchestration of the robots is something to see, if one was off by a tenths of a second they would probably collide. The laser measuring is interesting too, at every run a laser scans the chassis and if it is rejected it gets crushed into a 2ft steel cube right their. Audi is very advanced they make all their dies in house, they make 293 cars per shift three shifts per day at the plant in Ingostadt- where the A3, A4 are made. The make dies for GM and BMW as well. They make just about everything themselves- VW makes the programs for the robots that make the cars. You should see it, it only costs $5 for a tour. Mercedes won't let you in unless you are picking up a car. The workforces are also very different, not many Audi workers are over 40, not many Mercedes workers are under 40. I am a big fan of diesel so I like both cars but Audi doesn't sell their diesels here to my knowledge. I like diesel because no matter what happens in the world their is fuel and I can always make my own. I also like the engine sound.
Sorry Chris, I didn't get one single picture. I have pictures from past trips though.
I have toured Audi twice and Mercedes once. They are complete opposites, at Mercedes everything is done by hand even the little antenna and defrost lines on the glass. At Audi everything is very automated. Humans are only involved in the wiring and interior for the most part. I like Audi because it is just unbelievable watching those robots asemble cars from a roll of galvanized steel to a finished car. Hammerstrasse as they call the huge row of presses that stamp out the pieces is something to see and the robotic welders change their own electrodes and just the orchestration of the robots is something to see, if one was off by a tenths of a second they would probably collide. The laser measuring is interesting too, at every run a laser scans the chassis and if it is rejected it gets crushed into a 2ft steel cube right their. Audi is very advanced they make all their dies in house, they make 293 cars per shift three shifts per day at the plant in Ingostadt- where the A3, A4 are made. The make dies for GM and BMW as well. They make just about everything themselves- VW makes the programs for the robots that make the cars. You should see it, it only costs $5 for a tour. Mercedes won't let you in unless you are picking up a car. The workforces are also very different, not many Audi workers are over 40, not many Mercedes workers are under 40. I am a big fan of diesel so I like both cars but Audi doesn't sell their diesels here to my knowledge. I like diesel because no matter what happens in the world their is fuel and I can always make my own. I also like the engine sound.
Sorry Chris, I didn't get one single picture. I have pictures from past trips though.
it's rumored that all audi's will be offered as diesel by 2008. something about our diesel having higher sulfur levels than other parts of the world, and our diesel being changed to the new lower level sulfur by end of this year. yea a diesel would be nice to drive-lots of torque.
Yes, that is true, February of 2006 we switch to grade one diesel. Right now we use Grade 2. On older diesels sulfur was required to lubricate the fuel pump and valves. The older diesels now have to use B2 also known as Premium Diesel- it is 2% bio diesel which has a high lubricity and adds cetane- the diesel equivalent of octane. My Mercedes is a common rail injection diesel and it is very fast- 0-60 in 6.5 seconds and I still average 28 mpg with highway numbers of about 32mpg. I have an old rabbit which i am restoring and it gets 45mpg and I plan to produce my own bio diesel to fuel it so I will get 45mpg at about 1 dollar a gallon for fuel. Bio diesel is simply vegetable oil which has had the glyserin removed and is converted by a process known as transesterfication, basically you react it with lye and methanol and the resulting chemical is very close to diesel. Despite the appearance to bystanders diesels have lower emissions, they use less fuel to accomplish the same work and emit much less CO2 and CO but alot more soot and NOx but the newest engines use catalytic converters so the NOx is a moot point. Europe is considering mandating soot traps but these will be a long term maintanence rpoblem and realistically soot is just more dirt for the plants.
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