'82 Coupe, rear wheels askew

[George Selby]

At 08:53 PM 1/26/05, you wrote:
>Well, I was followed home by another Audi, this one an '82 Coupe. This was a
>lesson in buying a car in the snow. I sent it out to be cleaned and buffed.
>The detailer pointed out to me that that the rear wheels are both moved over
>about 2" to the driver's side. He doesn't have a lift, so looking under I see
>what looks like a sway bar hanging down. It appears to be round, but could 
>this
>be the Panhard bar? Are there any other likely causes for the wheels to shift
>over?


During when I spun my former 86 Coupe into a ditch during a snowstorm I 
broke the Panhard bar, which I believe is to what you refer.)  I didn't 
realize it at first, but I could feel a strange wiggling feeling in the 
rear.  I took my old bar to a machine shop, and they welded in a piece of 
steel rod in the valley of the U.  Car tracked better than ever after that, 
and I never worried about it bending/breaking again.



George Selby