Re: Consistently Warped Rotors Driving Me Nuts

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <3742CA77.30335810@together.net> John Cunningham writes:

> I have an independent mech who asserts that (on Audi's) this is caused by an
> incident of braking hard to a stop, and then standing on the pedal.  His claim
> is that if the rotor gets very hot, then you sit at a stop with the pads
> applied, the warpage happens as the un-clamped rotor cools and the portion
> under the pads does not.  His implication is that the problem is a culmination
> of slightly under engineered rotors and poor driving habits.

Always my theory, too.  Stop a few feet short and roll the rest - take
your foot off the brake on level ground.

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Phil Payne