Subject: '97 A6 Avant update ...

[Mike Arman]

> Fay Kelley <iceisit at earthlink.net>
> Subject: '97 A6 Avant update ...
> 
> Well, I got my car started and took it to Audi ...
> turns out two cylinders are very bad and another is weak.

> 
> Someone in the shop offered to buy it (it is apart and I would
> have had to pay to put it back together) for $1,000 PLUS
> pay off my $600 to have it analyzed in the shop.


$600 for a compression test? A bit pricey, methinks, maybe I should go into that business?

If this were my car AND I trusted the diagnosis of the shop, I'd be looking for two things:

1) A used engine, and

2) someone else to install it.


I bought my first airplane under very similar circumstances - mechanic did a compression test, made 
the female owner a low-ball offer for her "junk" airplane, she said if I would match the offer I 
could have it, she just didn't want him to get it, so I did. One cylinder later, I flew it away.


Moral - buy nothing, ever, from any authorized Audi dealer. Buy your parts elsewhere, and absolutely 
get your service done by someone else!!!!

Best Regards,

Mike (I hate 'em too) Arman
90V8Q