Re: Monkey lad alert!!!!

["Alexander van Gerbig" <Audi_80@email.msn.com>]

    Well sometimes some of us don't have the time, the knowledge, or the
proper amount of teaching to even think about touching items on a car that
involve serious safety issues.  Suspension, axles, steering equipment...  I
surely wouldn't just go buy tools, ask the list for help, use my Bentley(not
much help anyways), and dive into something I have never done before or even
seen someone do before.  Sure I'd love a friendly Q-lister to come to my
house and show me how to do this stuff, I'd even pay for that, but it seems
as if people just aren't interested.  If I knew how to do everything on my
car I'd be helping people on my free time at no charge, working on Audis is
fun, sometimes.  I enjoy working on Audis and passing knowledge on, but if I
can't get the knowledge through visual teaching I am at a loss.  I don't
want to kill myself doing a bad job on replacing a steering rack and finding
that I am speeding down a highway and have no steering.  I work on my
sister's car no charge all the time, she even drives from Boston down to NY
for oil changes and that such.  I wish I knew a ton more, I wish I had a
full set of shop tools, and I wish I had buckets of time to do this stuff.

Plus dishonest mechanics should be the issue, not the owner of the car no
matter how ignorant they are!
(no offense intended)!

Regards,

Alexander van Gerbig
'88 Audi 80 -- Koni Yellows, G&M Springs
HÖR Technologies Sport Hydro Cam, K&N Filter
Borbet Type T, Dunlop SP9000 Sport

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