RE: Front cross member braces from Ron Wood

["Richard Deede" <rdeede@hotmail.com>]

My car was a plate of metal welded in behind the front motor mount to 
provide additional reinforcement. You could always try something like this.


Rich
-88 Scirocco 1.8t
-00 GTI VR6 - SOLD
-88 Scirocco 2.0 16v - R.I.P.
-87 Scirocco 16v - R.I.P.



>From: "L. M. Lloyd" <ubik@austin.rr.com>
>To: "Richard Deede" <rdeede@hotmail.com>, <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: RE: Front cross member braces from Ron Wood
>Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 15:34:23 -0600
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>What fantastic timing! After spending the past three days under my
>car I couldn't help but notice that I am starting to get a small
>crack in the bottom of my crossmember as well. This bar will be a
>Godsend.
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>BTW, aside from getting this bar, which I am definitely going to do,
>does anyone have any suggestions of other helpful things to do to
>arrest the cracking in this part?
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>The goal is to overcome the deliberate nature of the process.
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> > [mailto:owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Richard Deede
> > Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 12:52 PM
> > To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> > Subject: Front cross member braces from Ron Wood
> >
> >
> > Well I just got off the phone with Ron Wood at VW Specialties. He
> > said that
> > Potterman had just finished giving him the measurements for some
> > A1 cars and
> > it looks like they are going to be able to make a front cross
> > member brace
> > that bolts in using the front bumper bolts. This is great news.
> > He said it
> > will take another week or two to get al the measurements sorted
> > out but they
> > think this should work on all A1 cars.
> > Great news!
> >
> >
> > Rich
> > -88 Scirocco 1.8t
> > -00 GTI VR6 - SOLD
> > -88 Scirocco 2.0 16v - R.I.P.
> > -87 Scirocco 16v - R.I.P.
> >
> >
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