[urq] Audi A4 brakes for the urq

[Bill Bennett]

Mike, the brake wear and warpage problem is not isolated to one chassis A-4,
A-6 or A-8 even with the huge 4 brake pad per side system on A-6 4.2 or the
S-4, A-8 just more dollars for repair, and it is not just Audi, it is
MickieBenZ, BumMerW, VW, Slabb, umm, Volvo It seems like they are so
concerned about noise, they make the rotors out of soft metal. shoot even
rear rotor warpage is common on the above at 50,000 miles, and you do not
fix a warped rotor, you replace it. Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Del Tergo" <mdeltergo at hotmail.com>
To: <ur.quattro at verizon.net>
Cc: <urq at audifans.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2004 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: [urq] Audi A4 brakes for the urq


> Seems to me the A4 caliper, mated with the TT carriers and the A8 rotor
> would get past this problem. A rotor designed to stop a 4000lb plus car
> should hold up well on a 3000lb cars.
> BTDT UrQ
> Mike
>
> From: "Bill Bennett" <ur.quattro at verizon.net>
>
>
> the A4 line of brakes might stop well, they do not wear well, the rotors
get
> to wear limits fast and warp easily in normal road usage, plan on
replacing
> them every 20 to 40 K miles, that's what we see on street driven A4's by
> regular every day drivers, now our client with a blower on his 1999 2.8
A4,
> rotors and pads every 15K, we have offered brake upgrades to him, but he
has
> declined, he just sucks the straw every year, new rotors and pads... Bill
>
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