Brake Balance

[David Ullrich]

On 1/10/07, Taka Mizutani <t44tqtro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dan-
> IMO, nothing to worry about- Bosch ABS 5.1 and later implementations in
> Audis
> tend to bias heavily in the rear on initial braking in order to combat
> brake
> dive.
>
> Replacing rear brake pads on both our old A4 (B5 generation) as well as
> the
> Beetle
> occurred far earlier than the front pads, I think around 35k for both
> cars.
>
> I've done the front pads on the Beetle at around 70k.
>
> Taka
>
>
> On 1/10/07, Dan DiBiase <d_dibiase at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > In the past, I have questioned the 'balance' of the brakes on my car
> ('04
> > A4 1.8T) - the rear wheels consistently display a larger amount of brake
> > dust than do the fronts. I understand that the front brakes do most of
> the
> > braking, normally, in a car. I think I have some proof now that
> something is
> > unusual with my car, if not amiss.
> >
> > As part of the oil change service by my local (trusted) shop, they
> provide
> > a printout with a bunch of other data - tire tread depth, pressures and
> > 'brake life remaining', which I assume is a simple measurement of the
> pads.
> > My reports states that the front brakes have about 65% life remaining,
> while
> > the rears have 45%. Now, I'm assuming that the pads begin at the same
> > thickness (i.e., rears are not thinner for any reason).
> >
> > So, what would explain this? I have not noticed any lack of braking
> power
> > from the car. 90% of the driving done in this car is with only the
> driver
> > aboard. I have just over 40k on the car and these are the original pads.
> Is
> > this normal for a quattro?
> >
> > Thx,
> >
> > Dan D
> > '04 A4 1.8Tq MT-6
> > Central NJ USA
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I concur. There have been numerous discussions over on
fourtitude.com(VWVortex's Audi site that I moderate) about this very
topic. It seems that
it is "normal" to go through 2 sets of rears for every one set of fronts.

Dave
87 CGT 2.3