Dudes,andywaddy wrote:I think most people tend to either knock it into neutral if on a flat or Park if on a gradient to try and avoid sitting on the brakes.Bit_evl wrote:I took my RS6PE into Tetbury to finalise a glitch they found in PDI this week. Collected in March and 5500 miles on the clock. I have also suffered from the brake vibration as well in the last 1000 miles and asked them to look at it. They said that they had put the car on the MOT test and the vibration was just over the MOT guidance. I did not push them but they said that AUDI had agreed to replace the front discs. I just needed to sort a time. Great attitude and service.
I have been thinking through the possible cause and I suspect it is down to weight, power and autobox. I don't cane mine, I have not tracked it. I figure that if you use it well then the brakes will heat up as you drag 2000kgs down to a halt, the power means the autobox causes wild creep unless you hold it on the brakes so at every junction you sit hard on the brakes (with the stop-start as well) causing the heat to be trapped on the disc/pad. I have never warped a set of discs on any car in my life. I had the AMG E63S for 22k miles in two years and never even had the pads changed. I had a 550+ Bhp Skyline GTR33V and got to 108000 with one set of front discs at 80,000.
The only thing I can think of this is the challenge of holding it on the brakes at junctions, would ceramics make any difference on this situation ?
Why would you do this in an Audi if you don't do it in any other brand?
Pure and simple this is surely not fit for purpose with steel brakes?
What on earth do the Germans do who are allowed a lot more speed?!
Nightmare with a 100k car
Dan