Crazy Idea- thoughts?

[Ameer Antar]

btw, chrome affects the brittleness in materials. It makes things harder, 
but more brittle, and heavier. I'm not sure how chrome plating would be 
done, but I don't think it would affect the brakes seizing unless you 
plated the internal passages. Ii think good preventative maintenance, like 
replacing fluid, would keep away most problems. My experience w/ 5kt 
calipers is 1. the parking cable mechanism seize, esp. on A/T's...solution: 
use the parking brake. 2. calipers seize after sitting for long periods and 
no fluid change...solution: flush the fluid when needed...don't drive w/ 
black brake fluid...

-ameer

At 09:16 PM 3/1/2001 , you wrote:
>Hi listers,
>I keep hearing about seized rear brake calipers on our quattros,
>and just thought of something- if it wasn't extraordinarily
>expensive, couldn't one chrome plate the brake caliper? That would
>prevent corrosion, as long as the plating didn't make the pistons
>fit the caliper body. Is this a crazy idea?
>
>Taka
>
>Thinking of chrome plating and powdercoating stuff (not on the exterior
>of the car)