[V6-12v] Girling Rear brakes

[Fred Munro]

Hi Damien;

    I remove, clean, and re-grease (pad/carrier contact points, guide pins,
e-brake cam shafts) my rear calipers once a year. I have done this on each
of the 3 Audis I've owned after finding the pins seized on my first Audi.
I've found this routine maintenance is required to keep the rear brakes in
good working order.
    I've never had a problem with the front caliper pins - I service them at
pad changes only.

Fred Munro
'94 S4  111k km

----- Original Message -----
From: "Damien Gaboury" <damien_gaboury at uqac.uquebec.ca>
To: "Todd Young" <tyoung at wamnet.com>; "Quattro List" <quattro at audifans.com>
Cc: "V612valveList" <v6-12v at audifans.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 8:37 AM
Subject: Re: [V6-12v] Girling Rear brakes


> 4 months ago, when I bought my 90Q 1993, I replaced the front and rear
> rotors as well as the pads. My mechanics discovered that on the four
> calipers, all the lower pins were completely
> frozen. Thank to my mechanic because he was able to restore the pin
action.
>
> According to your comment Todd, the callipers appear to be very sensitive
to
> that kind of problem.
>
> So why ?? any suggestion ???
>
> Damien Gaboury, PhD
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Todd Young <tyoung at wamnet.com>
> To: Quattro List <quattro at audifans.com>
> Cc: V612valveList <v6-12v at audifans.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 8:03 AM
> Subject: [V6-12v] Girling Rear brakes
>
>
> > For those of you, like me, that think their Girling rear brakes are
> > working just fine, think again. Due to a noise, that turned out to be a
> > bent dust shield, I ended up working on my rear brakes. Turns out, that
> > not only were the pins a bit rusty, but one of them was completely
> > frozen and I ended up breaking it.
> >
> > Good news is, the caliper carrier, with the pins and rubber boots, is
> > available from the dealer as a unit for a fairly reasonable price, $87.
> >
> > Part Number #443-615-425-A
> >
> > Oh, and this is the part number the family album specifies for the
> > following cars:
> > 1993-95 90series, front wheel drive and quattro
> > 1993-95 100series, front wheel drive and quattro
> > 1995-97 A6 series, front wheel drive and quattro
> >
> > I didn't check any farther, but there could be more years included. The
> > '96 A4 I checked had a similar part number (the first three digits are
> > different), but it looks identical, so it may very well be the exact
> > same part.
> >
> > The best news, after servicing the brakes, including cleaning up the
> > front brakes and putting anti-squeal paste on the pads, I now have GREAT
> > brakes. I thought I had pretty good brakes before, but now it's like "Oh
> > my God, who threw out the boat anchor!" Another plus is that the
> > emergency brake holds better than before too.
> >
> > --
> > -----------------------------------------------------------
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> > -----------------------------------------------------------
> > Todd Young              WAM!NET Inc.
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> >
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