[200q20v] UFO's

Wolff wolff at turboquattro.com
Fri Aug 10 14:45:43 EDT 2001


Since I haven't seen anyone post my link that describes my experiences with
the UFO's, I'll post it:
http://www.succulents.com/quattro/ufo.html
The short of it is that my rotors were not warped, but did pulsate.
Wolff
"Nobody can forget the sound." - Michele Mouton
----- Original Message -----
From: Kneale Brownson <knotnook at traverse.com>
To: Mark Trank <MTrank at exch.co.albemarle.va.us>; <200q20v at audifans.com>
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: [200q20v] UFO's


> The warpage most commonly results from deformation after being heated up
by
> heavy braking.  It's been my understanding from reading about these brakes
> here that they warp particularly if you sit with the pads pressed against
> the rotors at stops after the rotors have been heated up from heavy
> braking.  It's been reported here that if you go out and heat them up
well,
> as in a bunch of hard braking from 80 mph with the brake pedal lightly
held
> down while accelerating back up to 80, and then drive a ways with NO
> braking so the rotors can cool down, you may reduce or eliminate the
warpage.
>
>
>





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