'02 a41.8t avant windshield washer pumps

[Steve Meyer]

I forgot about SJM, I've used them with luck before, as well as autohaus. I'll check them out.

slm

--- On Mon, 3/8/10, urq <urq at pacbell.net> wrote:

> From: urq <urq at pacbell.net>
> Subject: RE: '02 a41.8t avant windshield washer pumps
> To: quattro at audifans.com
> Date: Monday, March 8, 2010, 1:09 PM
> I remember once when I bought a
> replacement thermostat for the 5kCSQA ... I
> don't remember if it was from the dealer or a FLAPS. 
> I remember thinking to
> myself, cool it is another Wahler, just like the one I'm
> taking out.  A
> couple months later I get a call from the wife telling me
> that the car is
> overheating.  Funny, the original t-stat failed open,
> which is not *as* big
> a deal as failing closed ... which is what the replacement
> did.  IME
> thermostats seem to be prone to infant mortality
> syndromes.  
> 
> I don't get as much of a warm fuzzy when I read the Wahler
> brand nowadays
> ... 
> 
> I've done business with AutoHausAZ on a couple occasions
> and have never
> regretted it.  As a long time urq owner I still
> haven't gotten over having
> dealt with Shokan back in the day, perhaps they have
> changed.  I do
> recommend Scott Mockry's business sjmautotechnik.com. 
> I'm not a big fan of
> Blau, but personally I think I'd check there before
> Shokan.  I still miss
> Rod Ramsey and Didi ...
> 
> Steve Buchholz
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> Bought a thermostat from them, four months later, car
> overheated resulted in
> cracked head, which yielded a replacement engine, since it
> would have been
> more expensive to replace the heads.  Does that help?
> 
> 
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