[s-cars] Re: Big Red Rear Brakes

[Igor Kessel]

QSHIPQ at aol.com wrote:
> I had a customer that beat the living crap out of his 95 S6 at the track with
> Big Red fronts, and he was averaging 3 rear changes to every front (but the
> rotor life was about the same as the fronts).  Those rear pads were used from
> like 83 thru 96, and they are *cheap* even in performance applications.

Actually even further than that, Scott. My wife's '98 A4 utilises the
same rear pad as my '97 UrS6, as my previous '89 200TQ etc. I have a gut
feeling that all Audis through m/y 2001 utlised the same pad in the
rear. Might be different p/nos and compounds, but identical dimensionally.

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Igor Kessel
two turbo quattros