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

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OK - I`m sure theres something I`m missing...  Oh yea the obvious - the attachment design of the urs underbelly tray sucks!  BMW uses screws. Volvo and mercedes use screws - Audi used to use screws.  And without fail in the last 15 years -the first response I get informing a customer hardware is missing - ` I just replaced those (again)!`  POS

I have two v8 quattros in my driveway - both with the original pans and original hardware.  The only reason why in my book?  They use good old fashioned shouldered bolts to attach the tray - just like the `other` guys do.  Why?  Cuz it works.  They don`t release under vibration shift and sheer forces, and any monkey lad can pu them in without understanding how they work.

What holds the pan on are not `dzuz` fasteners (those actually might work) they are turn-type fasteners that go into some easily deformed receivers.  The plastic pos`s on the wheel wells crackwith heat age and a half hearted bump to the front bumper.

I used to stock a half dozen sets of hardware - I stopped doing that years ago - cuz charging for them became a pita.  Fixing the broken or missing pieces became a free service....  So I stopped and just install whats there and put good 3M zip ties where the missing parts were.  Fully zip-tied pans tested btw - without mentioning names - fully imbedded in steamboats magnetic snowbanks....

To aluminum - i work on a B5 S4 with a killer aluminum plate made and sold by Armadillo Armor Systems...  Has all the cooling ducts and it attaches securely with some beefy bolt type hardware.  Pricey but really well made.

I`m all for reinstalling the correct hardware where I find it on the tray/body.  I also have absolutley no problem cutting off and reinstalling good zip ties.  To those hardcore purists fighting diligently to retain the original crappy Audi design?  Here`s a budweiser toast to you...  Mr. Useless Audi Hardware Ordinance buying guy!  

:)

Scott J   

---Original Message---
From: "JC" <jc at j2c3.com>
Sent: 11/8/2010 10:10 pm
To: "'chris chambers'" <fastscirocco_2000 at yahoo.com>
Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com, 
Subject: Re: [s-cars] I will NOT buy MORE UNDERTRAY Hardware!

OK, how about $50? .....seriously, what is so hard about reinstalling the
tray? 

 

Chris - Nothing at all, which is why I am so frustrated at the guys who
can't be bothered to do it right. 
 
Re: an Al replacement from Cody... well it'd be 90% just coolness factor
(the hinged oil change door - awesome).  I probably can't justify $350 on my
old Wagen but if it was nicer and I was on the upswing for investment I
might...