quattro Digest, Vol 2, Issue 187 Tire Eating Audi

[Larry C. Leung]

Or just go for a drive. If your brake is dragging significantly enough
to cause the tire wear you've shown, than the offending wheel will
be offensively hot when you stop. The other's should be cool or 
somewhat warm, fronts (being they brake the most) being warmer
than non-dragging rears.

LL - NY


> Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 21:50:06 -0800
> From: lrickert at covad.net
> Subject: Re: Tire Eating Audi
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> thanks Joshua and Hue, I will check out the brakes before taking it 
> into the 
> shop for an alignment check. I have also been getting particularly 
> bad gas 
> mileage lately which might be explained by a dragging brake (and the 
> 10% ethanol 
> they add to the gas this time of year). Other than the non-uniform 
> nature of the 
> wear a dragging brake makes sense. It should be easy enough to tell 
> tomorrow 
> when I can jack it up and spin the wheels. Any idea what an 
> acceptable drag 
> level would be? Probably much less than I could measure with a 
> torque wrench. 
> 
> thanks
> 
> Luke 
>