S6 - Brake Pedal Travel - Better

[RubEric@aol.com]

Many of you have heard my complaints about the very long pedal brake travel 
on myS6.  You and others have offered advice and recommendations and I have 
tried many of them.  Most, however,  have suggested the long pedal travel was 
an unfortunate feature of the S6 and advised me to learn to live with it.

Not long ago, a technician at an Audi dealer advised me to "bleed" the brake 
accumulator described the procedure.  That procedure is: Pump the brakes 
until the accumulator is fully depleted.  Depress the brake pedal as hard as 
possible and while holding it, start the engine, holding the pedal down until 
the light goes out. And then do it all again. The brake pedal shudders 
briefly as the accumlator builds pressure. The procedure takes only a few 
minutes.

I don't know why, but to my very great astonishment, this has reduced the 
pedal travel. The pedal is not as high as on a vacuum-boosted brakes system, 
but still much improved over what I had before. If you have complaints about 
the low pedal travel, try this. 

Eric
95 S6
84 Olympic