Painful price quotes

[Beatty, Robert]

for the most part the type 44's are mostly immune to the east coast.. very
rare to see alot of rust damage on them....

Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: Anton Gaidos [mailto:Anton.Gaidos at flextronics.com]
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 3:18 PM
To: Beatty, Robert; 'Steve Marinello'; quattro at audifans.com; Mike Arman
Subject: RE: Painful price quotes


I've done this stuff many times. I just don't want to do so much of it
anymore. Part of the reason is to get the wife to understand just how much
I've saved us over the years. She takes this stuff for granted and tends to
complain I've spent all day "playing" with the cars. The other is I'd rather
be working on my house and landscaping (not to mention my other hobbies like
music)
 You have answered one question - do these bearings need to be press fit?
Evidently so. My final concern working on this car is the darn thing is an
east coaster which equates to being a pain in the butt.
Anton

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Beatty, Robert [SMTP:BeattyR at ummhc.org]
> Sent:	Friday, May 11, 2001 12:04 PM
> To:	'Steve Marinello'; quattro at audifans.com; Mike Arman
> Subject:	RE: Painful price quotes
> 
> Theres always taking the strut off yourself and taking it with the bearing
> to a machine shop and spending 20 - 30$ to have it pressed in and put it
> back in yourself.  Not a very hard job to pull the struts on an Audi.
> 
> Same goes with the rear shocks...
> 
> Rob
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Marinello [mailto:smarinello at newpark.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 2:57 PM
> To: quattro at audifans.com; Mike Arman
> Subject: Re: Painful price quotes
> 
> 
> As I remember, book on the wheel bearing R&R is 3 hours each.  I don't
> know
> what the independent hourly rate has gone up to in the Bay area, but $515
> for 6 hours works out to just under $86/hour, by the book.  I think Rod's
> price on the wheel bearings wasn't much off of $55 each for the urq, so
> that
> cost doesn't seem off much by comparison.
> 
> Just considering...
> 
> Steve
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Arman" <armanmik at n-jcenter.com>
> To: <quattro at audifans.com>
> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 12:20 AM
> Subject: Painful price quotes
> 
> 
> >
> >
> > >From: agaidos at got.net
> > >To: quattro at audifans.com
> > >Subject: Painful price quotes
> > >Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 06:53:33 -0700 (PDT)
> > >
> > > Got some price quotes from a local shop. I like the shop a lot and
> they
> are
> > >very knowledgable but these quotes seem astronomical. As I have done
> > nearly all
> > >my own vehicle repairs for the last 20 years this was tough to swallow.
> > These
> > >quotes are for my '91 200q 20vt:
> > >Front wheel bearings - $110 for the bearings, total with labor $625
> > >Replace rear shocks with Bilstiens - $189 ea. for the struts, total
> with
> > >labor$700 labor
> > > I'm still waiting on the estimate to replace the parking brake
> components
> > and
> > >the corroded left rear upper suspension piece.
> > >Anton
> > >
> >
> >
> > Anton - to quote Brave Sir Launcelot's advice to Great King Arthur when
> > they were besieging the French castle:
> >
> >    "RUN AWAY!!!"
> >
> > $515 labor to change front wheel bearings, plus $300 labor to change
> rear
> > shocks (a bolt on each end, no less), that means he either has a yacht
> > payment due tomorrow, or he plans on getting even with Bill Gates. I
> don't
> > quite see why you have to make this possible for him, all by yourself.
> >
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Mike Arman
> >