87 Coupe GT

[Kyle D Ledford <r3kdl@dax.cc.uakron.edu>]

	Well its been a while since I've posted here.. In my last few 
posts I talked about doing some traveling in the ol Audi. Well I did. I 
made most of my trips and everything pretty much is ok. I ran into some 
of that constuction on the way home from one of my trips. Well I had to 
choices either hit the wall or try to straddle whatever was laying in the 
road. Well as anyone mos likely would do I tried to straddle the debris. 
Well it did end up hitting the underside of the car.. I didn't think much 
of it until a couple of days later when I heard a creaking sound when I 
started from a stop. I got out and looked. One of those brackets that 
hold the tension rods to the sub-frame was gone. Well seeing that it 
happened on the road and was not my fault I decided to call my insurance 
and tell them I was going to take it for an estimate. Since they are 
paying I will go to a dealer. Well after sitting all day waiting on it 
they finally took it in and in 20 mins. told me what needed to be 
done(dealers are a pain about things like that) the total estimate was 
like $1080.69 or something. I need a new subframe and several little 
parts along with that. They quoted me a price on a subframe as $575.00 
... this is the brunt of the cost I think.... that and the $335.00 labor 
anyone have any comments on this.. I was told it could be fixed by 
placing a clamp in the torsion bar... but I will never get it aligned 
right.... Also being it is an 87 and knowing my insurance company... they 
might just want to total it out.... I hope this is not the case.


         
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