RE: Follow up on my 4kq search. (painfully long)

["Matt Daniels" <matt@sumus.com>]

Here is what I was able to conclude. On the 2wd 4000, the muffler is mounted
front-to-back with a straight pipe leading to it and a straight pipe
exiting. On the Quattro model, the muffler is mounted sideways, with a pipe
that has to go up-and-over the rear differential to the resignator. This is
all one peice along with the exiting tail pipe (which has to be 'L' shaped).
On my car, the muffler, the tail pipe and the pipe leading to the resignator
all needed to be replaced.

Matt


> -----Original Message-----
> From: c a l i b a n [mailto:caliban@sharon.net]
> Sent: Monday, November 09, 1998 1:59 PM
> To: Matt Daniels
> Cc: Quattro
> Subject: Re: Follow up on my 4kq search. (painfully long)
>
>
>
> 	what am i missing here?  why does 2wd/4wd matter for
> 	a muffler job?
>
> On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Matt Daniels wrote:
>
> :|In the mean time I call around to different exhaust places and
> get prices on
> :|the rear tailpipe muffler. One place gives me the same $280
> price, another
> :|gives me a $165 price and then Midas tells me that all of their
> forign car
> :|mufflers are on sale for $69! I tell them that it is a quattro and they
> :|assured me that it was the correct price. I get their, and
> there reaction is
> :|something like "oh, this is a 4wd car". Needless to day, the
> price was alot
> :|higher and they couldn't get the parts for a week. I go to the
> $165 place,
> :|again I tell them it's a quattro, you know, a 4wd car, again this place
> :|tells me the price is correct. I take it to them, they get it
> in the air and
> :|the reaction is the same "This is a all-wheel drive car". Isn't
> that what I
> :|told you????? Their price now turns into $600 and they couldn't
> do it for a
> :|week. I break down and take it back to the Audi/VW shop I had
> it at the day
> :|before. They are able to do it in 4 hours for the quoted price.
>
>
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