Painful price quotes

[Orin Eman]

> 
> 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.

Buying the Schley tool would be cheaper than that labor rate...
Wheel bearing R&R only takes 3 hours if you pull the strut.
2 hours on a bad day with the Schley tool.
 
> Same goes with the rear shocks...

Spring compressor required.  It's 3 nuts and a bolt
that hold the strut in and another nut on the shock rod
holding the strut together.  This is actually worse on
the earlier type 44s which had the top nut so recessed
you needed the special tool to get at it.

Orin.