[s-cars] Brake pad recommendations on a 2001 A6?

[theringmeister at triad.rr.com]

Harold
Fronts or rears?

Fronts are the HP-2 calipers, and I went with stock pads on the allroad.  They're not dust free but in a week's time they're not going to make the wheels black either.  The front pads are easy to change on those calipers too....simple quick-release style clips and you can spread the calipers with a long flat-blade screwdriver.  Really a nice easy job if the rotors don't have to come off.  No caliper-retraction tool necessary, as the back of the pad is what you leverage against to push the calipers in before removing the pads.

In the rear, you can use almost any off-the shelf pad available at your local auto parts store (FLAPS?, I always wondered if that acronym meant anything) with trouble-fee results.  Been doing it for years on just about any Audi I've owned. 

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Wylie Bean
TheRingmeister at triad.rr.com
90 cq
91 90q20v sport
92 UrS4
01 allroad


---- Harold McComas <HaroldMcComas at comcast.net> wrote: 
> My dad just emailed me asking for recommendations for pads for his 2001 A6 
> 2.7T. He is in North Dakota so they need to work at -40F as well as at 90F. 
> :-) He washes the car once a week so dust free would be nice. No racing pads 
> needed. I "think" I had a set of Repco Metalmasters ( possibly  Mintex Red 
> Box, I don't remember) on my old '85 GTI that caused my sphyncter to pucker 
> the first time I tried to brake at 10F. I thought I had no brakes going 
> towards a stop sign leading to a busy street.
> 
> Harold 
> 
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