[V8] The Bangle-butted bungles are buggering all of

[Ed Kellock]

My understanding is that warp is not really warp, it is pad deposits
unevenly distributed on the rotor when the pad becomes hot enough to
melt just a bit and leave some behind.  The italian tune-up works to
remove or at least redistribute those deposits.

Ed


On 3/8/07, kentmclean at comcast.net <kentmclean at comcast.net> wrote:
> Roger M. Woodbury wrote:
> > ...and for some reason,
> > the pulsing that I experienced off and on through the first year with the
> > car seems to have disappeared entirely.  I wonder how that works, although
> > I'll admit to having done a few "Italian" Brake tune-ups.
>
> My understanding is that those Italian brake tune-ups, where you bring the
> car to almost a stop from highway speeds and repeat it a few times, heats
> up the rotors enough to take out the warp, and when the rotors cool you are
> good to go. Or stop.
>
> --
> Kent McLean
> '94 100S Avant, "Moody"
> '89 200 TQ, "Bad Puppy" up in smoke
>
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