[s-cars] Brake upgrade?

[Bob DG]

Mercedes has introduced a system that detects when a film of water gets on 
the rotors and can then apply the brakes just enough to remove this water. 
This is done without the driver noticing.

A brake upgrade will not really help, my suggestion is to just tap your 
brakes every now and then to clear the rotors.

HTH

"bob"


>From: "Mark Strangways" <strangconst at rogers.com>
>To: <s-car-list at audifans.com>, "Robert Myers" <robert at s-cars.org>
>Subject: Re: [s-cars] Brake upgrade?
>Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 10:50:39 -0500
>
>I find the same problems here as well, I use Bira Sys6.
>I have the same problems but are worse due to the winter driving 
>conditions.
>When it was -20 F the last few weeks, and there was salty slushy crap on 
>the
>roads the brakes where not happy at all. You planned your stops a lot
>earlier.
>The problem may be eased slightly by re-installing the dust shield on the
>back of the rotor, but that's not with out some grief in itself..
>
>Mark S
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Robert Myers" <robert at s-cars.org>
>To: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
>Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 11:42 PM
>Subject: [s-cars] Brake upgrade?
>
>
> >
> > Hi Y'all,
> >
> > Today, while driving through rather heavy rain and equally heavy road
> > spray, I found myself unpleasantly surprised a couple of times by 
>applying
> > the brakes and finding them to have rather limited initial effect until
>the
> > pads/rotors got dried off a bit.  The reason for the problem is quite
>clear
> > and no significant problem was present due to my not pushing too hard 
>for
> > the conditions present.  However, the experience was still a bit
>disconcerting.
> >
> > My question: would a brake upgrade to something like BIRA system 1 or
> > system 3 solve the wet brakes problem?  Is there a pad material which
>would
> > minimize this behavior under very wet conditions while still giving
> > satisfactory dry weather braking with minimal dust?
> >
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