[s-cars] Just shoot me and put me out of my misery

[Lee Levitt]

Dan writes:
> Lee,
>
> First question, how the hell does your dealer get away with charging you
> $1,000 for a rebuilt rack!!!!

First, it's not a dealer, it's my private mechanic who has taken good care
of me for about 10 years. He sourced a remanufactured servotronic rack from
Audi, and his cost was just over $1,000.

> So, about the rear shocks...  I have only replaced these once, and I'm a
> little unclear on this as well, but I think there are three
> positions on the Bilstien shock that the lower spring perch can sit on.
> Do you think maybe they are using the wrong one???  Can anyone shed any
light on
> this???  I am doing my suspension install with Bilstiens in about two
weeks so I would
> like to know so I don't get the same results as Lee!

Now that I have the Eibach spacers in hand and have looked at the shocks
that came out of the car, it's easy to see how they didn't remove the
spacers from the original shocks. They're buried under the old spring
perches, which refuse to come off.

The spacers slide onto the tube and give 10MM of additional height to the
spring perch. I still don't know where the other 10MM is coming from to get
my car level.

Lee