[s-cars] I will NOT buy MORE UNDERTRAY Hardware!

[Dusten Tornow]

My undertray is on the side of Pena Blvd in Denver if anyone is interested in a well used replacement. 

Germans didn't do plastic bits very well in the 90s, did they?  Between cooling systems and under trays, I've seen too many failures.

On my M3, I had this:  http://motionmotorsport.net/products/product_info.php?cPath=22&products_id=28&osCsid=0e34391f18adfb7f209ffff2af6c477e, is there an aluminum skid plate option for our cars?  Or do I need to make it from scratch?

Thanks,
Dusten
'95 S6 Avant

-----Original Message-----
From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Harold McComas
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2010 4:14 PM
To: s-car-list at audifans.com
Cc: jc at j2c3.com
Subject: Re: [s-cars] I will NOT buy MORE UNDERTRAY Hardware!

Where you at again JC? Maybe we can help with the recommendation.

When I had my S6 I never bothered with the fender fasteners.

I used to have my oil changed at an oil place, bro-in-laws' bro-in-law was the manager so I thought I would be taken care of. EVERY time I went they said your are missing several fasteners. When they overfilled by a quart I said no more. Did my own oil changes and in 3 yrs never lost a fastener.

Doug L, if it is the shop I am thinking of, I had a good experience there, my brother in law did not.

Harold

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> Getting under the car for the first time in a long time today to take 
> care of my blown X-plug I discover that YET AGAIN the last time she 
> was in the shop, a bunch of the undertray hardware was lost (if I'm 
> being generous) or just blown off (most likely).
>
> The 2 front metal pins had lost their little backside retainer 
> thingies (which I always re-make when they get lost so I am always 
> sure it is all there when it arrives at the shop), and ALL of the 4 
> plastic fender-liner pins were completely missing. You might think 
> they just came loose, but to underline the fact that it was 
> negligence, the tray wasn't properly in the bumper slots up front, and 
> the side 'wings' were completely wrong in the fender wells (on the outside not the inside of the fender liner).
> Obviously
> somebody jammed the crap out of it, didn't get it lined up right, 
> pulled the metal pins out so they lost the retainers, just 
> jam-jam-jammered it around until they could get the metal pins in, and 
> then completely blew off the fender-liner part of it.
>
> I've bought new pins for those damn things time and again after 
> getting it back from the mechs with one or two gone missing. Most of 
> the time I've generously thought hey OK they didn't fully engage the 
> pin and it probably fell out on the test drive or way home.. but this 
> time I can tell they just said "F-it" with those side pins. This would 
> have also been the service after which I found the bumper grills were 
> jammed in so half-assed the engagement clips got all bent and 
> malformed and wouldn't clip in properly because somebody had just 
> force-slammed 'em in there without paying attention. I'm lucky I 
> didn't loose the grills actually.  Oh and never re-clipped the ambient 
> temp sensor either...
>
> /rant.  Just had to vent.  F at hhk I need a good shop.  No such thing I 
> guess.
>

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