UFO Brake Repair

["Paul C. Waterloo" <74543.407@compuserve.com>]

Wow! What a difference!

I have a 91 200q with UFO's on it. Starting a month or two ago, the brakes
started to squeal, I knew the pads were getting thin. In the last week or two,
things started getting much worse, it felt as if the front end bearings were
going or possibly some of the front end bushings. The car wouldn't take bumps
like it use to.

So I looked at the pads last week, they were just thicker than the wear
thingamajig. Got new pads from Clair ($177 for the pads alone, thank you) and
installed them yesterday.

The rotors seemed to be acceptable, I did grind all of the rust off of them on
the O.D. and the I.D. of the rotor, then hit them with an orbirtial sander (on
the in board side only, you can't get to the out board side because of cage). I
also cleaned up the surface that the pads rest against with sand paper.

Now that the brakes are done, the whole front end is like new! I can't believe
it. It takes bumps much better, the wheel bearing being shot sound is gone, and
no more nasty rattles in the front end. Amen!

I'm just glad I didn't have to replace the rotors (time will really tell that),
they were at about 24 mm, limit is 25 mm.

Paul

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Paul Waterloo
Riverside, IL

91 200q

EMAIL: 74543.407@compuserve.com
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