RE: brake problem

[Todd Young <tyoung@wamnet.com>]

Ti Kan posted from Audi:

>Following initial investigations by Audi's technical experts, whose
>findings were confirmed by ADAC experts, it is suspected that new types

>of road salt, in particular magnesium chloride used in a technique
known
>as "wet salting", affects the friction between the brake disc and the
>brake pad.

This "new" road salt is probably being used here in Minnesota.

Almost every time my '93 90S sits for a few hours, I come out and drive
away and the first couple stops, I can hear a grinding noise, and no my
pads aren't wore down. My fiancee's '96 Mazda Protege tends to do the
same thing. First time it happened in my car, I panicked, thinking my
front pads were down to zero and scraping metal on metal.

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