bundle message: update, thanks, questions (long)

[jab86@cornell.edu]

howdy all, i have been away from the list for a while due to an injury 
and a busy time, so please excuse me if i bring up an issue or two that 
have already been broached in my absence.

1.i'll start with an update:
my previously hobbled 1990 80q is back on the road!  a brand new control 
arm, 
bushings and 4 corners of H&R/boge combo later, it handles like a new, 
better car.  thanks to all of you who provided the various advices that 
got me through the jobs ( of course, since it is an early nineties 
audi a new problem has already cropped up.  argh, wheel bearings!).  a 
problem that i ran into which any 80 owners out there (maybe 90 too?) 
might encounter is that towards the end of production of the 1990 model 
year, Audi switched types of control arms.  this control arm is not 
available from ANY aftermarket suppliers that i have heard of on this 
list, but only through AoA to the tune of 285 USD apiece!  not only did i 
have to shell out a whole lotta money, but i am also left with the PITA 
of returning the control arms that did not fit to the place that still 
has my $200!  MORAL:  don't bend your control arms, and GIVE YOUR PARTS 
PERSON THE VIN NUMBER WHEN ORDERING THIS PART.  I hope that my experience 
can help somebody avoid a similar annoyance.  

2.  thanks again to everybody who guided me through this and in 
particular to Kirby Smith for sacrificing a fog light lens to get me a 
turn signal indicator.

3.  questions:  in my absence has there been any headway into the whole 
q-list sticker thing?  i am going to call the consulate of Qatar in NYC 
tomorrow to see about getting an official sticker for the back of my 
car.  also, my rear passenger BRAND new strut and spring seem to be 
making a clunk/scraping noise when that corner gets jolted.  it is a 
brand new boge turbogas/H&R spring combo and no other corner is making 
this noise.  ideas?  

thanks for reading this long email

-joe "no q-list in the hospital" brown
1990 80q - ACTUALLY ON THE ROAD AND RIPPING ASPHALT DAILY!