Steering wheel vibration under moderate braking

[Grant Lenahan]

If they are deposits (worth checking, good idea) this works.
But they are nto quite "stops" - its more like 60-5mph. Dont let the 
car stop.

Grant
On Sep 7, 2006, at 5:54 PM, Kneale Brownson wrote:

> Check that all the wheel bolts are torqued.
>
> Try the "Italian tuneup" recommended for warped UFO rotors (You don't 
> have
> UFOs, but you could have warped rotors):  Several heavy stops from high
> speed followed by enough driving without applying brakes at all until
> they've cooled completely.  If that modulates the shaking when you use 
> the
> brakes afterward, remember to not sit at stoplights with the brakes 
> applied
> to just one spot on the rotors after you've heated them up in 
> stop-and-go
> traffic.  At lights with my UFOs, I either put the car in Neutral or 
> leave
> space ahead so I can creep forward every few seconds so the pads don't 
> sit
> on the same spot on the rotors.
>
>
>
> At 02:41 PM 9/7/2006 -0700, Chris Thorp wrote:
>> Patient is a '95 A6 quattro.  Under moderate to heavy braking, the
>> steering wheel shakes.  Heaver braking = more shaking.  After a
>> certain point though, very near locking the wheels up, the shaking
>> goes away.  It's been getting progressively worse for about 10,000
>> miles.  This just a simple warped rotor or is it something more
>> seriously wrong with the frontend?  Any ideas?
>
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