UFO Rotors and Calipers

[Bernie Benz]

The unanswered Q is:
What was the condition of the brakes when you loaned the car??
Where is there mountain winter between  Asheville, N.C. and Texas?
Maybe a new GF is in order.

Bernie


On Nov 5, 2009, at 7:16 AM, Brian K. Ullrich wrote:

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> The GF lives in Asheville, N.C. right now (moving to Texas in  
> January), so I
> gave her the V8 to drive through the mountain winter when her last  
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> up the ghost. New snow tires, recent transmission service, plugs, oil,
> topped up fluids plus bottles of extra.made sure the car would get her
> through until January when we'd get it on a truck to Texas.
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> She's not very in tune with cars, and told me a month or so ago  
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> there were any lights on on the dash, and did she hear anything  
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> She said the brakes still worked, no lights, and no noise. I told  
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> get the car in for a brake job with a local Audi guy this week. She  
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> her way to
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> Short story is that the front pads were GONE, and had been gone for  
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> time. She had metal-on-metal so long that she wore the rotors down  
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> way to the ribs. Pulled a piston out of a caliper, and she was  
> toast. Pedal
> went straight to floor, she ran through three red-lights before she  
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> wits together enough to put the car into N, and sort of coast to a  
> stop in a
> pile of landscape debris. She was quite understandably freaked.
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> I have not yet seen it, but the dildo at Firestone in Asheville  
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> calipers were both destroyed, brake lines on one side are destroyed
> (probably by exiting debris) and the rotors worn clear through to  
> the ribs
> on both sides. He then proceeded to tell me it would cost more to  
> fix than
> the car was worth, so I should probably just get a new car since  
> this one
> was so old. Oh, and this is a REALLY cool motor.
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> I have a guy I trust that is going to move the car back to the GF's  
> house
> and inspect it. I'll know more then, but even though the dildo at  
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> is a.well, a dildo from Firestone, I asked very specific, targeted  
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> She's getting a B5 2.8 30v A4Q. Nice and mild. J
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> From: rbade12 at aol.com [mailto:rbade12 at aol.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 4:58 PM
> To: bullrich at ullrichsys.com; V8 at audifans.com; 200q20v at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: UFO Rotors and Calipers
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> Curious as to what kind of failure would necessitate replacement of  
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> UFO rotors are available from many sources, AutohausAZ comes to  
> mind, about
> $160 a piece if I recall. Calipers are another deal, not sure where  
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> them other than The Marketplace or ebay. I've acquired a set that  
> way for
> future use.
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> Changing to conventional brakes requires replacement of the entire  
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> assembly. The calipers would then have to sourced from ?, probably  
> easy to
> find, rotors from ?, probably easy to find.
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> Tell us what happened.
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> Bob
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian K. Ullrich <bullrich at ullrichsys.com>
> To: V8 at audifans.com; 200q20v at audifans.com
> Sent: Wed, Nov 4, 2009 2:17 pm
> Subject: UFO Rotors and Calipers
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> I'm sure this has been asked before, but I'll throw mine into the mix:
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