Front brake squeal

[Larry Smeins <lsmeins@ball.com>]

Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 12:48:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Andrew Duane USG/PE <duane@zk3.dec.com>
Subject: Re: Front brake squeal

Hairy green toads from Mars made kkleman@vanstar.com say:

> My A4Q has the most annoying problem with brake squeal that I have
ever
> experienced. It is very embaracing to make all that noise in what  I
> consider a nice car. Coming uo to a stop along with some not so nice
cars
> and sound like a piece of sh*t. The next thing you know someone will
slap a
> "Stop Noise Polution" sticker on my car.

>Two words:

>	1) Repco
>	2) Pads

After the bad words about Repco pads that I've seen on this list I have
to ask: Are you attributing the squeal to Repco pads or are you
recommending Repcos to stop the squeal?  I started using Repcos many
years ago because they had a reputation for not squealing.  I think
Repco guarantees no squeal if installed on new or freshly turned rotors.
I've been happy with my Repcos with my relatively sedate driving.  This
list has been bursting my bubbles of confidence on so many things I've
been pleased with I'm beginning to think I don't know s**t.  Not to say
the list hasn't been a good source of info, I've learned more than I
ever wanted to know about Audis and still learning.  Keep up the good
work.

Larry
If you don't care where you are, you ain't lost.