Re: A4 belly pan is Satan's work!

[Robert Myers <rmyers@inetone.net>]

Steve,

A common trick is to cut an appropriately located hole in the pan which
allows draining oil and replacing the filter without dropping the pan.  It
was done to one of my cars without my knowledge once.  I was upset about it
at the time but, on reflection, it's not that bad an idea.

At 08:11 PM 5/11/98 -0400, you wrote:
>
>So I thought Audi would have made some progress from the '88 90q to the '97
>A4tq.  Like the irritating, easy to break, crack prone, screw-stripping,
>clumsy, awkward belly pan would be a far better engineering achievement on
>the A4.
>
>Wrong.
>
>The A4 belly pan is worse.  Far worse.  More points of attachment (10 vs
>8)!  Two different types of attachment devices!  Even clumsier!  Almost
>impossible to attach gracefully by just one person!
>Arrrrrrgggghhhhhh!!!!!!  And you can still strip the screws!
>
>OK.  I feel better now.  It no longer bothers me that it takes 3.2 minutes
>to change the oil on my 200, and an hour on the A4 (56.8 on taking the
>belly pan off and on)....nope, doesn't bother me a bit..........SLM
>
>P.S.  If anyone has come up with a trick to making this easier I'm open to
>suggestions.....
>
>Steve Manning:  stephenm@ix.netcom.com
>...Physical home: Metro D.C. area, USA
>.....Virtual home:  http://www.stationwagon.com
>
>
___
   Bob
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