[A4] skid plate

[Rocky Mullin]

	ah, i kind of thought it was your road.

	yeah, the allroad is pretty spendy.  i would actually lease one
right away but the MPG kills the deal for me.

At 1:28 PM -0400 7/6/05, Peter Kirby wrote:
>On 7/6/05, Rocky Mullin <caliban at sharon.net> wrote:
>>  At 11:53 AM -0400 7/6/05, Peter Kirby wrote:
>>  >Hi Rocky
>>  >
>>          i broke the beefy OEM model when i missed a turn into a
>>  driveway and hit a rather high curb.  i guess you could call that
>>  a rock.  it broke, but so did the subsubframe, oil pan, radiators,
>>  intercooler, bumper, A-arm, etc.  actually the subframe broke and
>>  basically pierced the engine.
>
>ouch!!
>
>>
>>  >The road to get to our cottage has one or two spots where if I am not
>>  >careful, I will hit the oil pan on rocks.
>>
>>          two spots?  consider fixing the road, or an allroad quattro.
>
>Allroad is too $$$$.  I don't think fixing the road is an easy option:
>it's a public road and the rocks that do stick out are like
>iceburgs....only 10% is above the surface (judging this by the fact
>that a big road grader doesn't budge them) .....so it would be a major
>expense to "fix the road".
>
>Cheers.
>
>Peter


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