[s-cars] Re: 1.8t Coil Pack Group Buy Contact

[DGraber460 at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/23/2006 2:53:06 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
forgied at direct.ca writes:

Dennis:  The people cc'd on the CC list come from AudiWorld. In  response
to an interest "feeler" post I made, they all expressed interest  in some
form of group purchase on the 1.8 t coil pack hardware.

I  don't know if you are still interested in providing this service to
the  Audi community but I hope that you are.  I developed the  DIY
instructions so anyone could do this as a grass-roots  solution.
Apparently there is at least one company going to provide  complete kits
at some time in the future but undoubtedly these kits will be  much more
expensive that the DIY solution.  When they will do this is  unknown.
They have been talking about it since the summer and still  nothing.  In
the meantime, you have the opportunity to help people to  make this
conversion now, rather than waiting.

I leave it to the  people on the CC list to contact you directly to
indicate what they are  looking for (two  people already have the 115 L
coil packs).   Everyone needs connectors, etc.

Good night and good  luck.

(Historical reference intended).

Dave  F.




Sorry for the delay in my response on this.
Today I was finally able to contact the parts manager, and it was as I had  
expected but hoped against. His response was similar to " I have to order 1-2k  
of anything to get discount pricing. We'll revisit as soon as I get this pile 
of  _priority_ off my desk". That was basically a no. The parts department 
had just  recently met their total gross number for calendar year 05, and I was 
hoping to  play on his desire to start 06 with a "volume" state of mind. How 
soon they  forget.
I do have another source I'm going to talk with in the next 2 days and will  
let you all know what I find out.
Just so everyone is aware, I am approaching this the way I thought other  GBs 
were as well, and that is nothing in it for me but the satisfaction of  
helping others and saving us all money. Also my way of paying back to all  those 
who have saved me so much over the years. 
 
Dennis
Denver