[s-cars] Ever heard of this? - Lower control arm 'snapping' in traffic

[David Glasser]

The shop is a father and son operation in Burlington VT called AutoHaus.

I appreciate your advice and am seriously thinking of taking some sort of
legal action.

Dave Glasser
95 Black S6
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----- Original Message -----
From: "CyberPoet" <thecyberpoet at cyberpoet.net>
To: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Cc: <divad at rcn.com>
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 10:59 PM
Subject: RE: [s-cars] Ever heard of this? - Lower control arm 'snapping' in
traffic


> Lower control arms do not simply 'snap', especially under
> such a light load. The first bit of advice: Immediately
> contact a civil liability attorney specializing in lemon
> laws and vehicles, and go after the shop/dealership which
> sold you the vehicle. The accident, the damages, the car
> and your peace of mind are all worth $$$ and a torte action
> is probably the only way that such a facility will feel the
> pain enough to not perform such shoddy work again. Do not
> attempt to contact the dealership directly in any case
> what-so-ever, and if you can't control yourself enough to
> do that, tape every conversation with them, with their
> attorneys, and make sure you get the adjustors' comments on
> tape as well when the car is inspected by the insurance
> agency.
>
> Oh, and please, for the sake of the rest of us, tell us
> which shop/dealership you obtained this nightmare from...
>
> This kind of thing is very unlike Audi's and it needs to be
> explained that it is obviously the fault of human error at
> the local shop/dealership, and not the type of products the
> Audi factory puts forth. Whether the car was in a bad
> accident previously, and was not repaired correctly, or if
> the parts installed were used and questionable, or if the
> repair simply wasn't carried out, either way the full
> liability needs to lie with the responsible party.
>
> Usually I dislike attorneys, but for cases such as this, it
> is the only way to make a corporation (such as a
> dealership) feel the pain adequately to prevent them from
> repeating this kind of carelessness before it actually
> kills someone.
>
> Sorry about your misfortune,
> =-= Marc Glasgow
> www.cyberpoet.net
>
> DAVID GLASSER WROTE:
>
> Last Friday I'm driving to a job at about 4:30pm on the Henry Hudson
> Pkwy in
> NYC.  Stop and go traffic.  I'm moving about 25 mph in the right lane
> when a
> van cuts into my lane from the center lane (which was stopped at the
> time).
> I hit my brakes to slow down (no danger, plenty of time to stop) when I
> hear
> a clank and my car suddenly lurches uncontrollably to the left,
> scraping the
> right front of a blue escort along my two drivers side doors and then
> hitting the right front quarter panel of a limo in the left lane with my
> drivers side front quarter panel and scraping along the limo's
> passernger
> side doors.  Noboby hurt, thank god.  Turns out the passenger side lower
> control arm snapped causing the car to lurch to the left.  I've owned
> the
> car two months (just received the title in the mail today).  The lower
> control arms were supposedly replaced by the dealer I purchased it from.
>
> End result is the car is a total loss.  I don't know yet what the
> insurance
> co. will give me for it.  I have nowhere to keep the car to part it out
> or I
> would.
>
> Anyone ever heard of such a mechanical failure on these cars?  Kind of
> scary.  Thank god I wasn't driving 70mph with my pregnant wife or
> newborn
> son (12 days) in the car.  I'm fighting hard to feel good enough to
> purchase
> another Audi.  Just though I'd share.  Any BTDT's or advice most
> welcome.
>