[V8] Factory towing package

NIck Miller chance9121 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 2 19:18:45 PST 2010


Hello,

    Hey, so here I am as always, the crazy engineering student with another
great idea.... Anyway, as I travel a ton, and have a terrible secondary car
for this hobby, I've been trying to get figure out a way to get the V8 to be
a capable 3000+ mile vehicle.   It really is getting close, after this
summer I'll have everything I want done to it to consider it reliable enough
to last oil-change interval without any maintenance issues I'm not
tracking.  So, one thing that came up in my plans is that I often require
the use of a trailer to carry larger pieces of furniture and/or car parts
cross country.   And, my Audi doesn't have the factory package, so even with
an add-a-hitch, it lacks those slick rear subframe supports that give you
adequate structural reinforcement in the rear to have a good tongue weight.

    So, this came up a while back, maybe a year ago now on the list and I
looked over the pictures of the braces pretty well, and I'm fairly confident
I can replicate them.  I am asking here for anyone who has the tow package
on their vehicle to see if they would sell me the braces, or loan me them
for a time and I can put a deposit down, so I can take all the needed
measurements and get a good 3-D model of them, and maybe make a few test
pieces before returning them.  Or, I can just buy a set from someone who
doesn't need them anymore.

   Anyway, if someone can help me out with this I'd appreciate it.  The
other thing it would mean is that If anyone else wanted them, I could either
give them the technical drawings so that any machinist can make them, or I
could get a set made here locally and send them out.

So, anyone who has them, or any info/good tech drawings speak up, it'd be a
big help!


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