[V8] Super Low Mile 5K
Roger M. Woodbury
rmwoodbury at fairpoint.net
Sun Jun 10 19:44:43 PDT 2012
Well, then, I certainly don't get it. We had a neighbor lady who bought a
new 5000 sedan around 1984...the first of the "new" Audi 5000's. She had
rotor problems and those were replaced under warranty, I remember.
She had traded her BMW 735 big body sedan for the Audi on the advice of a
son who lived in California or someplace.
We moved into our new home sometime later, and bought our new 5000S Avant,
which is memory serves was either a very late 1985, or perhaps a 1996, and
at around 15,000 miles, I think it was, Audi replaced those rotors and
calipers under warranty.
The car went away at a fairly young age in favor of a Porsche 944, but I
have now forgotten exactly how many miles it had at the time. Less than 30K
and two years old, as far as I can remember.
Roger
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony and Lillie
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2012 7:04 PM
To: Roger M. Woodbury ; cobram at juno.com
Cc: V8 at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [V8] Super Low Mile 5K
The 5000 non-turbo's used G54 single piston calipers, same as the 4000Q,
Scirocco 16V, and QSW, perhaps others. Standard rotor setup. Not exactly a
problem prone brake system, IME.
The Turbos used G60 dual piston calipers, same as a lot of our V8's and 200
20V's have had installed on them. Also use a conventional brake rotor.
Tony
Subject: Re: [V8] Super Low Mile 5K
> That was what I understood. I wonder what the issue was with the brakes
> on that car. I was told at the time Audi replaced a "lot" of 5000 brakes
> due to "rotor problems". There was absolutely no question with the brake
> replacement job either, which tends to indicate something seriously was
> amiss perhaps in that one year only.
>
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