[s-cars] Control Arm Source and Wheel Quandry

[David Kase]

heh heh ...

Have you ever seen so many wheels sets for Audi in one place?!  Amazing
really...



On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Abe Berman <yellowcuda at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>>   _______________________________________________
>>> S-CAR-List mailing list
>>> http://audifans.com/mailman/listinfo/s-car-list
>>> http://www.audifans.com/kb/List_information
>>>
>>
>>
>