Re: hackers

["Fred Munro" <munrof@isys.ca>]

Hi Tomas;

    The wheel bearings are sealed for life and cannot be repacked.

Fred Munro
'94 S4  92k km

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tomas Leveckis" <tomas.leveckis@analog.com>
To: <quattro@audifans.com>
Sent: Monday, November 22, 1999 9:13 AM
Subject: hackers


> I purchased a '92 100CSQW from Brooktree in Holbrook,MA......I brought
> the
> car back to have the heater blower motor replaced.....I got the car
> back, and the
> screeching was gone, BUT a few days later, I was poking around under the
> hood
> and noticed that a substantial part of the blower housing had been cut
> out and
> rubber cemented back into place....nice,huh....bunch of friggin
> hackers.....if I had
> known this is what they were going to do, I would have taken a day off
> from work
> and done the whole thing myself.......this is one of many negatives
> about the entire
> purchase.........they lied about a bunch of things....their wrench said
> he re-packed
> the front wheel bearings, so when I drove off, I still noticed the 40mph
> hum, and when
> I had some new tires put on the car, I told my wrench to check the wheel
> bearings, he
> said they were never removed....in fact I guess you need to take the
> bearing in this car
> to a machine shop to have them pressed in......there's more, but the
> real bottom line is
> that given my experience with these guys, I would not consider doing
> business with them
> ever again.................
> 
> Tom Leveckis '92 100CSQW.......with easy access to me heater blower
> motor
> 
>