[V8] $500 V8 For Sale

[Dave Saad]

Roger -
If you are concerned about the brake cylinders, you might consider  
taking them apart and cleaning the cylinder bores and piston.  You  
risk speeding up an already imminent failure, but from my own limited  
experience, these things accumulate water and sludgy gunk over the  
years. A careful cleaning may give you another 20 years - or 20  
minutes of life.
Just a thought.

Dave

On Feb 26, 2009, at 9:10 AM, Ed Kellock wrote:

> I can't remember... why do both calipers need to be replaced?
>
> Ed
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: v8-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:v8-bounces at audifans.com] On  
> Behalf Of
> Roger Woodbury
> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 8:51 AM
> To: 'Bastian Preindl'; diemarthadie at aol.com
> Cc: v8 at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: [V8] $500 V8 For Sale
>
>
> Bastian:  What is the availability of the front internally mounted  
> (UFO)
> brake calipers in Germany?  And at what price?
>
> Also as far as I have been able to tell, the rebuilding kits are NOT
> available in the US.  There are a lot of parts places advertising on  
> line,
> but none have them as far as I have been able tell.  Between my  
> mechanic and
> me, we have called about a dozen places with NO results.
>
> This brake caliper situation is serious because if both calipers  
> needed to
> be replaced, it will end up costing over $1100 before sales tax.   
> Assuming
> that the installation was done professionally, the cost of new front  
> brakes
> including rotors, calipers and pads will cost....well, labor rates  
> here for
> me are around $70 per hour.  I understand that is low compared with  
> other
> parts of the country.
>
> It will be very difficult to replace the UFO front brakes with  
> anything that
> will equal the power of the brakes unless the wheels are changed also.
> Changing wheels is problematical because any wheel over 16" in daily  
> use
> here will eventually bend.  Sixteen inch wheels are marginal, so brake
> choices are limited if it comes to that.
>
> Roger
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bastian Preindl [mailto:bastian at preindl.net]
> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 10:19 AM
> To: diemarthadie at aol.com
> Cc: rmwoodbury at roadrunner.com; v8 at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: [V8] $500 V8 For Sale
>
> Hi,
>
> I follow your discussion very curious and would like to give you some
> facts from middle Europe:
>
> - German and Austria have together perhaps 3000 Audi V8 left (whereas
> those both countries together with Switzerland should make the  
> majority)
> - Most of them are in a rather poor condition, whereas the gap becomes
> wider: More and more very well maintained ones from enthusiasts or
> (seldom) older people who are the first owners and much more more or
> less wrecked ones which drive but wouldn't even get a new MOT  
> allowance
> any more, not to speak about their general condition
> - Those maintained ones get up in price - usually no chance below  
> 4000.- EU.
> - "Special" Audi V8 (very low mileage, long wheel based, classic  
> liners,
> armored versions...) are siginificantly increasing in price the last
> couple of years
> - Old- and Youngtimer magazines discover the Audi V8 and call it a
> "insider's tip", slowly but constantly new articles about the V8 (also
> multipages) are released
> - The amount of conventions/cometogethers raises year by year and they
> become larger (>40 cars easily possible) so as a I consequence I  
> assume
> the community becomes more organised. Also newcomers stay longer (in  
> the
> forum at least)
>
> In my personal opinion the Audi V8 is the only car able to step in a  
> row
> with the Audi Urquattro and also experience its extreme raise in  
> price.
> Even though cars like the Audi 200 20V are very interesting, they  
> won't
> become that popular anyways, I'm sure. Just in case I'm wrong I also  
> own
> one of those, hehe, but no, I think the Audi V8 is the one which will
> make it. Assuming that the community becomes stronger over time and  
> more
> organised to have a long-term chance against Audi's spare part  
> politics.
>
> By the way, the spare part situation of Audi 200 and V8 is pretty much
> similar...
>
> Bastian
>
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