[urq] Motivating Audi to produce Parts

[Michael Williams]

On Jul 1, 2006, at 9:43 AM, AUDIJIM at aol.com wrote:

> I think it was Martin who said (please correct me if I'm wrong) that
> UrQuattro owners fall into two groups, the purists and the  
> modifiers. and I'll  throw
> in a third group as a little mix of both purist and modifier. That  
> said
> along with the other concerns we have for the lack of factory  
> produced parts,  has
> anyone made a list of UrQuattro specific parts that are NLA?  
> Besides the
> ball joints and upper strut mounts and sun visor clips (the first  
> things that
> pop into my head) Is anyone here up to getting one together and  
> having it
> accessible through Audifans? I'd like to see a full list of the  
> parts we can not
> get from Audi. I'd also like to see a list of alternate parts that  
> are either
> "bolt on replacement" or "slightly modify to make it work" parts.  
> With any
> luck,  I'd like to start driving my UrQ #170 by the middle of this  
> summer. on a
> regular  basis. I'm toying with the idea of selling my S4 and all  
> my AAN stuff
> and using  my UrQ as a summer/winter car and getting a 911 for the  
> summer/nice
> days. If I'm  serious enough about this, I'll need the UrQ to be as  
> reliable
> as possible.  Which leads us back to getting parts for these German  
> toys.


i agree with you here on the tracking and listing of the parts that  
are nla from audi, vw, or any other manufacturer that does have  
compatible components.  what i've been thikning is that we need to  
maybe let go of audi as far as a hope and just find a machinist who  
is willing to expand their business to produce all of these parts.   
we know that there are a certain number of urq's out there, we know  
that there are going to (hopefully) be at least that many owners of  
urq's out there (present and future) that would be dependent on this  
supply of parts for the duration of the cars' lives.

it wouldnt be a bad opportunity to create new designs for some of the  
stock pieces - improving on an already good idea, and some really  
cool things could come from it...

i dunno, just a thought

MswmSwmsW

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