[V8] Timing Belt Change, Parts Costs and Friction Pad info

[Jeremy Ward]

Places like www.audiconnection.com (Virginia) and www.sjmautotechnik.com
(Oregon) provide a HUGE service to the Audi community for free.  They
are able to provide these services to us (and pay utilities, food for
their families, etc) by adding a reasonable margin on the parts they
provide us, which are still very competitive.

Keep in mind that you may be able to get a *slightly* lower price
elsewhere, but AudiConnection provides more than just oem parts at a
fair price...  They took the time to put that list together for us, they
are good guys who are very well know and respected in the V8 community,
and they provide a HUGE amount of free advice to us wanna-be mechanics
on this forum (and over the phone / email).  They will also take care of
you if you run into issues during the job...  To me that's worth a
couple of extra bucks every time.

I think I speak for this list when I say a big THANK YOU to Bruce and
Keith for the service they provide the V8 community! :-)

[Stepping down off the soapbox now]

- Jeremy

BTW, I am not harping on anyone, I just wanted to provide some food for
thought...

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they are working up a price for me that will include everything listed
on the audiconnection site as the 60000 mile service (minus the friction
pad) plus the serpentine belt, serpentine belt rollers and the
thermostat w/gasket.  

I'll pass on the price I'm quoted for the package if folks are
interested.

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