Re: Coupe Quattro 20v Distributor failure

[Aleksander Mierzwa <alex@matrix.pl>]

At 21:58 99-03-14 GMT, Phil Payne wrote:

>The former - no.  The latter - yes.  Call Tim at The Parts Department
>by late Monday and you'll have one on Wednesday morning.  Why it takes
>Audi three weeks to ship a part from Germany when it only takes the
>independents 24 hours is beyond me.

What's more iteresting, local Bosch dealers offer two methods of shipping
if the part is not in stock and has to be ordered from Germany.
You can have it in less than a week for a list price or wait up to 3 months
for a 15% discount. If the parts had to be shipped from Australia, I would
understand the difference in price resulting from the sea versus air
shipping costs, but Germany is only 500kms away.

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 :-)