[V8] UFO US

[toml99 at todomundo.com]

Both my Lago car, and the 5-speed have UFO's.  When I first got my  
Lago car, my ex's dad(PO) told me I might have trouble with those  
front brakes which were something I'd never seen before and made me  
nervous.  In the file, he had them replaced under the Easy Care  
warranty he got when he got the car in 94, 3 times because of the  
warpage.  Everytime it started to shimmy, he brought it in.  Last  
one, the dealer tried to do the G60 "upgrade", and he said "no way".   
On the way back from Colorado after picking up the car, coming down  
Teton Pass in the summer, I got the wobble(rotors had about 12K on  
them at the time).  By the time I got home it was bad.  I did some  
looking on the internet, and found this site(02?), and heard about  
the "In-car truing method", and proceeded to try it.   It fixed it  
for awhile, then came back....did that 10 times or so, then  
University Audi(seattle) offered to do the brakes and sell me those  
rotors for $150 each(had 4 sets left and were worried about getting  
stuck with them.  That was in 04 or so when they were $250/each or  
so, and those are still working flawlessly.  At the time, there were  
lots of posts about people doing the conversion, but I paid no  
attention, as I liked the UFO's....The 5-speed came to me with brand  
new UFO's/calipers on it, and those are also working flawlessly.   
Both the parts car(gone) and the Black car had the conversion, and  
both are/were new/clean working flawlessly and I first assumed there  
was something wrong with the brakes, but realized that they just  
aren't as powerful.  While I'd love another fresh set of UFO's for a  
rainy day, I'll wait till those parts guy who are hording them, dump  
them.....and at some point they will, as the demand has definately  
not increased.....Tom