The mystery thickens (was "Re:Help ! Car immobilized)

["Arun Rao" <rao%frisbee@frisbee.pixar.com>]

	Story so far:
		'85 Audi 5000 Turbo starts shaking strongly (steering
	wheel and front-end) coming in to work on Monday.  Wheel bearing,
	I suspect.  CV joint, some erudite list members surmise.  Check
	the wheel lug nuts, still others say.  It's raining, so all I
	do is check the lug nuts and tighten a couple a little bit.


	The Saga Continues

	Yesterday, I had a local shop check the car out. They called
	in half an hour and said they couldn't find anything wrong.
	"Morons," I babbled to myself.  "Should've had it towed to
	the Audi dealership".  So I went down to the shop to show them
	that a failure in a German car is definite, precision failure: none
	of this waffling around.  Drove the car five miles at various speeds
	on all sorts of roads: not a whimper could be coaxed out of the
	front-end, far less a shake.

	I then asked them to put it up on the rack and take a look at the
	underside.  Right outer CV boot had a huge rip in it, but the
	wheel passed all the shake tests I could think of.  This is
	the same boot I had replaced five months ago, so I'm not happy.
	Chances are the CV joint's toast.

	So guess what I'll be doing this weekend ....

	-Arun "Mystery Shake" Rao