Re: who has vented rear rotors on their 200 qw?

[Dave Head <dhead@sundial.sundial.net>]

At 09:57 AM 9/14/98 -0400, you wrote:
>How many of you out there have vented rear rotors on you 200 qw?
>
>All of the app. books say that they SHOULD be vented, but on both my current 
>and previous '90 200 qw, the rear rotor were solid. Which of course makes 
>getting replacement parts confusing. And it is not possible that someone
just 
>replaced the vented w/ solid, since vented ones won't even fit my car - the 
>dust shield is too small, caliper to disk clearance too small and caliper
too 
>narrow.
>
>Except for the right rear caliper, which appears to be for a vented rotor, 
>since when installed,  ends up causing the slide pins to be WAY too far out.
>
>As as I can tell, to put vented rotors on my car, I would have to change the 
>dust shields, the caliper carriers and left rear caliper. Which I won't do, 
>cause it's too much trouble.
>
>Did anybody's 10v wagon get built with vented rotors?

What's the chance the other side got replaced with a non-vented caliper and
rotor by a previous owner or the dealer, considering these vented caliper
is more than twice the cost?


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