[s-cars] Badly cracked rack mount

Fred Munro munrof at sympatico.ca
Sun Jul 21 19:11:16 EDT 2002


Thanks for the photos, Mike. Looks nasty - I'm interested in seeing Greg's
documented fix. I'm going to take a very close look at my car - this is a
potentially dangerous failure. It's probably a good idea to apply
reinforcement even if a failure hasn't yet occurred.

Fred Munro
'94 S4


-----Original Message-----
From:	MLBess at aol.com [SMTP:MLBess at aol.com]
Sent:	Sunday, July 21, 2002 4:48 PM
To:	munrof at sympatico.ca; abiglizard at att.net; editor at s-cars.org;
dan at s-cars.org
Cc:	s-car-list at audifans.com
Subject:	Re: [s-cars] Badly cracked rack mount

 << File: S6_Rack_outside2.ZIP >> For those of you who are interested,
attached are 4 images taken of the inner
wheel well (both from the wheel well and the engine compartment) where the
rack bolts up on the driver's side.  They show the cracks associated with
my
problem (circled).  Both the inner fender sheet metal as well as the
reinforcing plate are cracked.  Repair is going to require some significant
surgery.  FYI, the reinforcement plate is not available as a separate item
from Audi.  If you go with new parts you need to buy a complete inner
fender
(gulp!).  What will supposedly be done to repair mine is: cut out the bad
section, weld in a good section from a wreck with additional reinforcements
to strengthen the whole area.  If the '97 improvements can be documented I
would like to show this to Greg's (Autofirm) brother at Karmann Auto Body
(also in Amenia NY).  Greg has agreed to document the whole repair. I'll be
loaning him my digital camera.

BTW, when I was in Greg's shop to pick up the S6 he was working on a
Ferrari
456.  What an idle!  Having never listened to a V-12 before, it was
amazing,
hardly any extraneous sound, very turbine-like.

Regards,

Mike Bess
'95 S6 (creaky steering awaiting surgery)






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