Re: Subject: RE: Subject: a/c fan

[STEADIRIC@aol.com]

hobbesian@worldnet.att.net on 5/28/1997 5:44 PM said:   

>
>OK, I double checked this. It's actually 2.9 hours by the book. I polled
>all the Audi techs in the shop, some of whom have been working on Audis
>since before there WAS a 5000. All said that even with all the tricks they
>know (i.e. not disconnecting the heater hoses and vacuum hoses and only
>pulling the airbox up enough to access the fan) and to a man (and they are
>all men) they said they knew of no way anyone could do this job in
>substantially less than an hour. I'm guessing that STEADIRIC must be one of
>those "Audi Gods" y'all keep talking about...
>	


Do you REALLY think that anyone at a dealer is going to tell you that 
they can do 16 blower motors (At $75/hr that's $3480) in a day when their 
book (Which is what they charge you) says they can only do 2.75 blowers 
($598)....


Later!


Eric Fletcher S.O.C.
'87 5KCSTQIA2RSR2B
St. Louis, MO

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