[s-cars] Brake upgrade?

[TM]

Bob-
I would suggest trying slotted rotors- the slots help prevent that
water film from building up. That's also much cheaper than a full
brake upgrade.

I never had a problem with this phenomenon on the 5ktq, 200 or Beetle,
but it is a serious problem on the A4. For stock brakes I like the
Hawk HPS.

Taka

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[mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Robert Myers
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 11:43 PM
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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?

_____

Osama bin Forgotten.

Bob
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