problems with ATE Power Discs?

[Franco Barber]

I have two sets of ATE Power Discs on two 95 A6q's.
No problems in 3 or 4 years and about 30k mi.
I'm using them with ATE oem pads.

Franco


On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 09:39:43AM -0800, Tessie McMillan wrote:
> Some of you might recall I recently posted with tons of questions about 
> odd wheel noises in my '88 80Q, and alignment issues. The end of the story 
> is: I'm not so huge a fan of ATE Power Discs any more. 
> 
> I had the front end of my car basically rebuilt after a track accident, in 
> sequence first from totally new wheel hub, wheel, suspension assembly, to 
> most recently having new rotors put on. I reported to you folks that I was 
> hearing squeaking wheels and I had wheel vibration even after a (somewhat 
> drawn-out) alignment which included measuring the subframe and confirming 
> it was true.
> 
> It turns out my less-than-a-month old Power Discs were warped. When my 
> mechanic had them machined to true them, the rotors both broke. He 
> couldn't get a satisfactory answer from ATE as to why this happened, so 
> instead of getting another set of Power Discs, he obtained a set of 
> cross-drilled Brembo rotors. No more vibrations, no more squeaky wheels. 
> The Brembos are quite beautiful.
> 
> Have any of you encountered problems with ATE Power Discs?
> 
> Tess
> in Bellevue, WA USA
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Franco Barber                   feb at febsun.cmhnet.org
95 A6Q w/Gamma CD mit RDS!      Columbus, Ohio  USA
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