Re: Best book for Audi Part No.s

[cobram@juno.com (. .)]

I think you may be referring to the Mitchell Collision Estimate
books.  They are large format with black covers.  These books
are expensive and are only sold in yearly subscriptions, 
($220+ a year.)  They cover very specific cars, European,
Asian, American, Older European, older American etc.etc.
The books are mostly used by Auto Body shops for estimates
and insurance people.  If this is the book you are 
referring to, it's FAR from complete, as it doesn't list
most mechanical parts, only those likely to be replacable
after a collision.  The information is also available
via CDrom, but that too is big bucks.  

Body shops usually do not throw out superceded books, as
they trade these with other shops because the information
changes very little from month to month.  So one shop will
subscribe to the American book, then trade another shop
for the Asian book when the new books come it.  Otherwise
it's too expensive a proposition for most shops to subscribe
to all the books.

<tm2@earthlink.net> writes:

>About 4 years  ago I purchased a  paperback book from Fitz.  A >local
wrecking yard in the Seattle area. It's a parts and pricing >book most
wrecking yards use for basing their prices for parts on.  >Most wrecking
yards have these books.  They have all the part No.s >and factory prices
in them.  The one I bought was for the years >1980 to 1990  for the
European cars which included Audi. I has all >the factory part no's
listed for each part. It also is manual labor >book for how much time it
takes to replace that part.  This book is >worth it's weight in gold.

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