Re: Damn the suspension on Audi 200t10vFWD!!!

[Aleksander Mierzwa <alex@matrix.pl>]

At 23:12 99-03-07 EST, PlyBoyDoct@aol.com wrote:

>I recently bought H&R springs for my Audi 200t10v (FWD) from GPR.  Got a
>pretty good price and the guy who sold it to me said that its a piece of cake
>to install and told me that I can even install it myself, if I wanted.  So
>when the springs came in I took it into a local speed shop and the person who
>worked there almost gagged at the way the suspendtion was make up.  "The
>struts are WELDED!" he screamed.
[...]
>The guy in the speed shop said that it would be the
>hardest job he would ever work on and I am wonder if he is BSing.  Any
>comments would be great!  Thanks!!

Yes, he is BSing. He probably has seen an Audi for the first time in his
life. On most cars with McPherson struts the lower spring seat is part of
the shock absorber and the whole assembly bolts to the hub housing. On the
44 chassis cars the lower spring seat is part of the hub housing and the
shock absorber is just a tubular unit that slides into the hub housing and
is secured by a cap screw (sorry if this is not clear, English is not my
native tongue). This is a _very_clever_ design, because you can change the
shock absorbers without dissasembling the strut, heck, even without lifting
the front wheels off the ground! To change the springs, though, you'll have
to remove the struts from the car, but the job is not that difficult.
E-mail me if you need details.

Aleksander Mierzwa
Warsaw, Poland
mailto:alex@matrix.pl
87 Audi 5000CS turbo (mine)
88 Renault Medallion wagon (mom's)
91 mountain bike (just in case both cars break at the same time :-)