[s-cars] Brake upgrade question

[Joseph Pizzimenti]

Barry,
The Bentley is referring to the Euro market UrS HP-2
calipers/rotors, also found on B5 S4's and C5 A6
2.7T's.

Quit whining and take the wheels off once in a while,
it's an excuse to drink cheap beer.

Joe
--- chant at full-moon.com wrote:
> I'm doing a very minor brake upgrade. I wanted to do
> the BIBA stage 1 (with the
> big A8 rotors, etc...) but don't have the money
> right now. I'm going with KVR x-
> drilled rotors, KVR carbon-fiber pads, and some SS
> brake lines. We'll see how
> it goes.
>
> A couple of questions. I got the rotors in over the
> weekend, and broke into my
> Bentley manual to make sure there wasn't any magic
> invovled. Almost had a heart
> attack when I saw in the manual that the rotors for
> the S4 are supposed to be
> 314 mm (or thereabouts don't remember the exact
> number). Of course, the ones I
> ordered were 276 mm, and I verified that several
> times against various on-line
> sources (but not the Bentley). My heart was restored
> when I went out this
> morning and actually took the tire off to measure
> it. Definitely 276mm. Also,
> the Bentley seemed to indicate (in the diagrams)
> that there were four pads per
> rotor, instead of the two that are obviously there
> (another run to the hospital
> averted).
>
> Question 1: The Bentley CD is obviously wrong, Does
> this happen often? Makes we
> wonder what I can and can't trust in it.
>
> Question 2: The KVR pads don't have the electronic
> wear sensor wires or
> squealers.  Anyone got experience with an easy way
> to check the wear level of
> pads that don't have the sensor wire? I can't really
> see in with the five spoke
> wheels, and I'd hate to take them off just to check
> pads. On the other hand I
> rotate two or three times a year anyway, so this
> isn't that big of a deal.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Barry
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