Rear suspension for 200 Quattro Avant

Konstantin Bogach kbogach at home.com
Thu Jul 5 23:50:43 EDT 2001


I bought rear Bilsteins for 200tqa '89  at Bavarian Parts..  No problems with
installation.  I drive the car about 2 weeks.  There is no problems like some
listers reported (clanking on bumps).

Konstantin Bogach.

Tom Nestor wrote:

> Hi Mark - I have a wagon as well, a 91 200 20vt, and have researched this
> issue in some depth. What I found was that the valving for the q wagon is a
> bit different, read that as stiffer, for the higher rear biased weight
> distribution when compared to the q sedan. I am currently running Boge Turbo
> Gas spec'd for the 200 quattro sedan in the rear of the quattro wagon with
> no problems. I should add that I have carried some substantial loads without
> damaging those shocks. You cannot use the non quattro wagon shocks, they are
> completely different from every angle. The quattro sedan shocks beat the
> hell out of buying the Audi sourced parts at $285 each, which I believe are
> the only alternative to Blau's $100 per side wagon shocks, although I'm not
> sure whether or not Blau's are still available. If you are getting a bit of
> banging back there, be sure to check the lower control arm bushings.
>
> Tom Nestor
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: mark schofield <200quattro at lineone.net>
> To: <quattro at audifans.com>
> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 1:36 PM
> Subject: Rear suspension for 200 Quattro Avant
>
> > Can anyone tell me what is so special about the rear shock absorbers on a
> > 1987 200 Quattro Turbo Wagon that hardly anyone seems able to reference a
> > replacement? Is the shocker different dimensionally or does it just have
> > different damping characteristics? I've checked with a number of
> aftermarket
> > manufacturers, suspension specialists and Q-Listed parts houses and seem
> to
> > be getting different stories about what fits what.
> > Any recommendations?
> >
> > Also, can anyone explain the significance of the last character in Audi
> Part
> > nos., usually a letter e.g. 123 456 789 D? In some cases on the ETKA CD
> > there is more than one item where the first 9 nos. are the same and only
> the
> > letter code is different but it isn't always clear which part fits which
> > model.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> >




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