Brake Balance

[Taka Mizutani]

Sorry, I guess I missed the change.

The allroad originally had the same brakes as the S4 and the A6 2.7T. I
guess
they changed to the brakes from the A6 3.0 as a running change.

Taka


On 1/12/07, Chris Newbold <chris at newbold.org> wrote:
>
> On 1/12/07, Taka Mizutani <t44tqtro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Allroad and the S4 have the same generation brake system. Heck, they
> have
> > the same
> > brakes.
>
> Almost, but not quite. They've got the same rotors on the front, but
> the S4 has the funky two-piston, four-pad calipers while the allroad
> has more conventional single-piston, two-pad calipers. On the rear,
> the S4 has ventilated rotors while the allroad uses solid rotors...
>
> The use of single-piston front calipers on the allroad might have been
> a running change during production, since I had originally thought
> that they used exactly the same bits as on the S4...
>
> I'm picking nits, but... :)
>
> -Chris
> 2001.5 S4 Avant 6spd
> 2004 allroad 2.7T
>