[s-cars] Control Arm Source and Wheel Quandry

[Abe Berman]

Hey,

You take entertainment where you can get it on a Friday I guess, I wrote it
though, you had to read it... 8^)

Thanks for the heads up on Audizine, I'll keep checking back there, looks
like alot for sale.

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 2:36 PM, David Kase <dbkase at gmail.com> wrote:

> 1. dunno
>
> 2. That's a whole thing you will have to decide for yourself. - my eyes
> started to glaze over about halfway through your riveting tale.   ;-)
>
>  As far as your question at the end - audizine has a cornucopia of used
> wheels for sale - both with and without tires. You gotta visit often as the
> good deals go fast...Clarence.
>
> GL,
> Kase
>
>
>
>   On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Abe Berman <yellowcuda at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>  Patient is a 95.5 Avant.
>>
>> 1.  Need a front control arm bushing, 3/4 of mine is missing.  What is the
>> current sentiment on brand/source for C4 control arms?
>>
>> 2.  I'm running separate sets of summers and winters currently.
>>  Unfortunately, bad roads/inattentive driving ate up two of my winter
>> wheels
>> this year, to the point that they cannot be balanced.  I checked on
>> getting
>> them fixed and the price was $125/wheel, which is fairly steep for winter
>> wheels based on my budget.  Those wheels are 17x7.5 2003 Audi A4 5 spokes
>> and I have 1 season old 225/45/17 snows on them.  Bought the set of rims
>> with no tires for $125 last year, a steal, I know.
>>
>> I now know why Bob R. said to go with 16's for snows...  The summer rims
>> that I run are 17x8’s which I usually run 245/40/17’s on, but I don’t have
>> any tires mounted on them now.
>>
>> I am more inclined to replace the existing winter set of wheels (depending
>> on what I can talk my wife into as she thinks that 3 cars and 7 sets of
>> wheels and tires is already enough…) as opposed to fixing them, but I am
>> probably somewhat constrained on price.  Finding that there are some used
>> wheel sets out there that I could probably get into for reasonable cost.
>>
>> Question:  Anyone in the Northeast have some 17" wheels they need to
>> offload?  Anyone know of a more reasonable wheel repair facility in the
>> Northeast?  I have until next winter to fix them, so no rush.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Abe
>> Burlington, VT
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