UFO Rotors and Calipers

Thu Nov 5 11:01:34 PST 2009

That's a heavy car....sticking guide pins will wear your pads down in short order........ maybe this is more a case of turn down the radio, scoring your rotors that much would make quite a grinding noise....

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From: 200q20v-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:200q20v-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Brian K. Ullrich
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 1:31 PM
To: 'Bernie Benz'
Cc: '200q20V mailing list'
Subject: RE: UFO Rotors and Calipers

So I knew this question would eventually raise its head:

The condition of the brakes when I gave her the car appeared to be nominal.
They had about half the pad left (inspected when I put new tires on it), so
it's a mystery to me.

I know of no other areas (except maybe western Tenn) where there are
mountain-type winters. No, a new GF in not in order...perhaps just a little
re-education.  :-)

Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: Bernie Benz [mailto:b.benz at charter.net]
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 11:14 AM
To: Brian K. Ullrich
Cc: 200q20V mailing list
Subject: Re: UFO Rotors and Calipers

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
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> 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
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> She's not very in tune with cars, and told me a month or so ago
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> She said the brakes still worked, no lights, and no noise. I told
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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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> calipers were both destroyed, brake lines on one side are destroyed
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> 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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> 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
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> $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
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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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