My car is alive! / Road Trip!

[CARTEL]

This past weekend I drove my car up to my house in Tahoe to get it registered (yay Nevada for less smog, no tint or front plate laws). Turned out to be a little stressful, sorta cold, but mostly fun. Here are some pics:

I decided to drive up during the first snow of the season. 29 degree temps + big turbos = awesome... too bad the elevation wasn't lower.


I got a check engine light on the way up and pulled over to delete the code. Unfortunately when you delete those little check engine lights of hate, they also reset your readiness codes, which need to be set in order to get smogged... so I decided to drive up to Mt. Rose in hopes they would set. No luck, but it was a fun canyon drive anyhow.







With those damn codes not resetting, I decided to drive to my wifes house in Monterey, which is about 250 miles away. I got there OK, but on the way back to Tahoe a few days later disaster struck in Sacramento: Broken Serpentine belt! God damn it.

Got towed to Niello Audi and they got me back on the road quickly. I've gotta say, that was the absolute best experience I've ever had with an Audi dealership. You Sacto people are lucky!





Finally got back to Tahoe/Reno in one piece, got the car smogged and registered, and decided to go on a night MTB ride with my Dad and my best friend Nick in Celebration:

Sycip, yes plz:


The trail ahead:


Uh, Camo?


Drove back to Cardiff trouble free.

the end.

[Matt C]

Nice pics, sick car. What is your ride height, and are your fenders rolled?

[doobiesdaddy]

beautiful Avant!

[CARTEL]

fender to ground is about 24 3/4" or so...

Fenders are not rolled and I don't rub (very often), although I drive very carefully and almost never carry anyone in the back seat. The top fender bolts are removed too.

[d.p]

What happened to the lip protectors man>? :p

Nice wheels and nice avant!

[speedydragon]

whoah where was it snowing? It can't be snowing in tahoe already.

[RenoAudiNV]

Tony, i think your avant is my new favorite. Extremely extremely well done. Looks like you came up during our freak first winter storm! Next time let me know so we can meet up, i'd love to see your ride in person. Great work man!

[Greyhound Guy]

You have to turn the car off and let it cool down and then drive the piss out of it to get to the testing facility. I am always getting the hate light even with a non-fouler on the O2 sensor.

[sliverwagon]

I love your car

[chrislane31]

Glad to see its finally on the road again.

[CZA420tAvant]

such a nice car.

[NYCS4Avant]

avant looks sick. Is that sycip a single speed? mighty adventurous for a mountain bike!

[twinsnailsS4]

Wow, those black CHs look awesome!

[Allan T]

VERY nice car, love the pics.

[aaron1085]

snow already!? damn...sweet ass avant

[SoCalS4Avant]

The Avant's looking sick! Love the pics from the trip also. Mt. Rose FTW - "two for Tuesdays." They still do that - and the women ski free Wednesday's?

BTW - here's a story about night bike rides. Be careful out there!

[LA_AudiTR]

nice pics of the road trip and of the car. car is looking nice!!!

i was always sad when ever they had to come tow my Stage3 B6 in the past. But i never took pics of it being towed. I wish i did tho.

[CARTEL]

What happened to the lip protectors man>? :p

Nice wheels and nice avant!

I thought they looked a little funny so I took them off.... and of course I wanted to be a little more like you.

whoah where was it snowing? It can't be snowing in tahoe already.

It was! Believe me, I was as surprised as you are.

Tony, i think your avant is my new favorite. Extremely extremely well done. Looks like you came up during our freak first winter storm! Next time let me know so we can meet up, i'd love to see your ride in person. Great work man!

Dave! What's up man! I was actually planning on looking you up when I was in town but things got really busy. I'll shoot you an email this winter.
BTW, you're car should be your favorite. It basically looks exactly like mine, except with silver wheels and a better interior. Oh, and less lag!

avant looks sick. Is that sycip a single speed? mighty adventurous for a mountain bike!

Actually, the forground and background Sycips are single speeds. The rear is a 29er too... they are a great bicycle company... look them up at Sycip.com.

The Avant's looking sick! Love the pics from the trip also. Mt. Rose FTW - "two for Tuesdays." They still do that - and the women ski free Wednesday's?

BTW - here's a story about night bike rides. Be careful out there!

I'm not sure if they still do that. I skied for the Mt. Rose Falcons when I was younger but haven't skied there in years.

Thanks for the kind words everyone!

[LampyB]

your avant is TITS Tony...looks absolutely amazing!

[dougyfresh]

29inches of fury! Whoa hoo!




Looking good buddy!

[dubenvy]

House in Tahoe? Rediculous Avant? 997 Turbo?

Sign me up for whatever you do.

[jrau13]

Seriously!!!^^^^^

Looks like you had a good and fun filled time up north.

[dougyfresh]

he's a baller