[Biturbos4] my rear noise

Single Malt s_malt at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 9 12:44:24 EDT 2005


--- David Kavanagh <audiguy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Bill, could this be simply the rear pads releasing?
<snipped>
> David
> 
> On 8/9/05, Bill Neilsen <wneils at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Every time when I start the car and put it in
> reverse, there is a single
> > ping from the right rear. It is like a ball peen
> hammer lightly tapping the
> > rotor. Sometimes it happens when I then go
> forward.
> > 

That sounds extremely familiar to me too.  If I park
it with wet rotors, the pads stick by morning. 
Wintertime chemicals exacerbate this greatly.  It can
make a tremendous pop or ping when they let go. 
Parking without the e-brake seems to avoid this
symptom.


--
Single Malt
'01.5 S4
Garaged at 9200ft
just outside Denver, CO


		
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