[V8] UFO Rotors and Calipers

[rbade12 at aol.com]

Wow, great story!! Happy no one was injured, that red light running can cause issues!

The calipers probably are f'ed, if everything Firestone dildo says is true. The only thing that I see as an issue is the calipers and one of the fine list members has offered a set, so $300-ish for rotors, $80-ish for brake lines, $60-ish for pads, and $?-ish for calipers and an afternoon of your time and you're back in business.

I like your GF, don't get a new one.

Bob   91 200q20v

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian K. Ullrich <bullrich at ullrichsys.com>
To: rbade12 at aol.com; V8 at audifans.com; 200q20v at audifans.com
Sent: Thu, Nov 5, 2009 9:16 am
Subject: RE: UFO Rotors and Calipers






















Well, since you asked…



 



The GF lives in Asheville, N.C. right now (moving to Texas in
January), so I gave her the V8 to drive through the mountain winter when her
last car gave up the ghost. New snow tires, recent transmission service, plugs,
oil, topped up fluids plus bottles of extra…made sure the car would get
her through until January when we’d get it on a truck to Texas. 



 



She’s not very in tune with cars, and told me a month or
so ago that the brakes were getting mushy. I asked if they were stopping the
car OK, if there were any lights on on the dash, and did she hear anything
grinding? She said the brakes still worked, no lights, and no noise. I told her
we’d get the car in for a brake job with a local Audi guy this week. She
was to take it in Monday during lunch. This happened Monday morning ion her way
to work.



 



Short story is that the front pads were GONE, and had been gone
for a long time. She had metal-on-metal so long that she wore the rotors down
all the way to the ribs. Pulled a piston out of a caliper, and she was toast.
Pedal went straight to floor, she ran through three red-lights before she got
her wits together enough to put the car into N, and sort of coast to a stop in
a pile of landscape debris. She was quite understandably freaked.



 



I have not yet seen it, but the dildo at Firestone in Asheville told
me the calipers were both destroyed, brake lines on one side are destroyed
(probably by exiting debris) and the rotors worn clear through to the ribs on
both sides. He then proceeded to tell me it would cost more to fix than the car
was worth, so I should probably just get a new car since this one was so old.
Oh, and this is a REALLY cool motor.



 



I have a guy I trust that is going to move the car back to the
GF’s house and inspect it. I’ll know more then, but even though the
dildo at Firestone is a…well, a dildo from Firestone, I asked very
specific, targeted questions and got consistent answers. So my initial opinion
is that I’m going to have to replace the entire front brake system.



 



She’s getting a B5 2.8 30v A4Q. Nice and mild. J



 






From: rbade12 at aol.com
[mailto:rbade12 at aol.com] 

Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 4:58 PM

To: bullrich at ullrichsys.com; V8 at audifans.com; 200q20v at audifans.com

Subject: Re: UFO Rotors and Calipers






 






Curious as to what kind of
failure would necessitate replacement of the entire front brake system. 



UFO rotors are available from many sources, AutohausAZ comes to mind, about
$160 a piece if I recall. Calipers are another deal, not sure where to get them
other than The Marketplace or ebay. I've acquired a set that way for future
use.



Changing to conventional brakes requires replacement of the entire strut
assembly. The calipers would then have to sourced from ?, probably easy to
find, rotors from ?, probably easy to find.



Tell us what happened.



Bob













 









 






-----Original Message-----

From: Brian K. Ullrich <bullrich at ullrichsys.com>

To: V8 at audifans.com; 200q20v at audifans.com

Sent: Wed, Nov 4, 2009 2:17 pm

Subject: UFO Rotors and Calipers




I'm sure this has been asked before, but I'll throw mine into the mix:









Anyone know where I can get a good set of UFO rotors? I'll also need









calipers. My GF had a catastrophic brake failure in the V8 exiting the









highway, and I need to replace the whole shebang.



















 



















Of course, given that I have to replace both entire front brake assemblies,









would it be preferential to convert to a conventional setup? What would that









entail?



















 



















Thoughts?



















 



















Thanks!



















 



















Brian



















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