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Front inner fender brace.. got it?




At a recent Texas Scirocco Team GTG, there was a VW document circulating around called "Technical Recommendation. Journeys under difficult conditions."  It is from VAG service and relates to VW and Audi vehicles.  Pg 20 of it outlines the installation of the Y-brace inside the fender wells.  Given the instructions, I'd imagine that the final installed part would look very stock.  It's a stamped steel piece that basically gets spot welded into place. 

So I don't think your brace was stock on any car.  No more than the various other reinforcements described in this manual (skid plates, reinforcements for control arms, etc.).  The book has dimensioned drawings of some of the parts (like the control arm reinforcements), but not the Y-brace.  The Y-brace bears the part number 175 809 145.  There is also a front strut mount reinforcement that goes inside the strut towers, number 171 411 105H.

The Y-brace is a reinforcement that welds into the fender well.  The "Y" end is near the driver's door and the tail of the "Y" extends forward across the inner fender, providing more support for the front end of the car.  

Brian


 --- On Mon 04/26, Gordon Forbess < gforbess@attglobal.net > wrote:
From: Gordon Forbess [mailto: gforbess@attglobal.net]
To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 07:58:25 -0700
Subject: Front inner fender brace.. got it?

This is a question I've not yet been able to answer about the Scirocco<br>body.  I was just checking out Tom C's project pages including the<br>picture at: http://www.tom-c.com/ipfpst.htm  It doesn't seem to have<br>the auxiliary flat Y brace on the inner fenders like my car does.<br>Perhaps there's a reason for the crack he had to fix. I remember being<br>told once that this brace was not installed on the Rabbit bodies, but<br>what about later Sciroccos?<br><br>I'm curious about what years had this feature.  Here are some pics of<br>what mine looks like:<br>http://users.adelphia.net/~gforbess/images/brace1.jpg<br>http://users.adelphia.net/~gforbess/images/brace2.jpg<br>http://users.adelphia.net/~gforbess/images/brace3.jpg<br><br>Anybody?<br><br>Gordon<br><br>75 Mk I/Drake 1.9<br>http://pws.prserv.net/gforbess/scirocco/scirocco.htm<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Scirocco-l mailing list<br>Scirocco-l@scirocco.org<br>http://neubayern.net/mailman/listinfo/scirocco-l<br>

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