Strange Brakepad Wear

[John S. Lagnese]

A caliper or parking brake cable sticking?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan DiBiase" <d_dibiase at yahoo.com>
To: <quattro at audifans.com>; <a4 at audifans.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2007 6:10 PM
Subject: Strange Brakepad Wear


> So the brakes on the A4 starting making as funny noise (to quote my wife) 
> on Wednesday last. I drove the car, heard a bit of a noise that sounded 
> like worn brakes, and checked the fronts, which looked fine. At the 45k 
> mile service, 4k miles ago, the brakes were reported as about 65% worn in 
> front and the same in the rear. But the noise came and went.... So Friday 
> afternoon, with it making the noise constantly, I took it to the local 
> shop. The right rear brake had just about completely worn the pad and was 
> starting to work on the metal. All of the other pads were fine and still 
> had, according to the shop, about 4 - 5k miles left (I had them all 
> changed out).
>
> What would cause such bizarre wear on a rear brake? We don't carry a lot 
> of passengers, in fact, typically there is only one person in the car.
>
> Dan D
> '04 A4 1.8Tq MT-6
> Central NJ USA
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