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Brakes - Rain performance - lousy and scary!!
Posted by fprintf (more from fprintf) on Fri, 30 Mar 2001 09:19:08
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Wow, what a drive to work this morning. I went to apply the brakes in a normal stopping situation and the car wouldn't stop. Thankfully I leave plenty of distance between vehicles, but we were still hauling down from 65 mph or so. Brakes hadn't been used since entering the highway, so were cold. The car seemed to *float* for quite a while, then sharply pulled to the right (uncrowned highway, no ridges or depressions that I could see in the road). This is the worst rain braking performance I have *ever* experienced in any car. I know all about having to wipe the rotors clear of water, but this was ridiculous.
I called my dealer this morning and apparently there is a new brake pad that alleviates this problem, although I would bet that it is at a cost of longevity of the brake pad. They are shipping it from Sweden and will be installing them on Tuesday morning (somehow I doubt that - probably have a stockpile here in the US somewhere -- maybe even Stamford, CT).
Anyway, it was a completely scary experience. I have been driving VWs for many years and this was not unexpected, but I thought all the previous posters were being pansies or just overexaggerating normal glide on wet brakes. I is not so normal wet brake glide, in my opinion.
By the way, this is on a 2001 9-3 Base w/ 2800 miles.
Stuart
Cheshire, CT, USA
Posts in this Thread:
- Brakes - Rain performance - lousy and scary!!, fprintf, Fri, 30 Mar 2001 09:19:08 <-- Viewing This Message
- Funny, I just experienced this for the first time, but..., LDH, Fri, 30 Mar 2001 16:58:01
- Re: Brakes - Rain performance - lousy and scary!!, NewSaab, Fri, 30 Mar 2001 13:21:04
- Re: Brakes - Rain performance - lousy and scary!!, NewSaab, Fri, 30 Mar 2001 13:20:50
- Re: Brakes - Rain performance - lousy and scary!!, John, Fri, 30 Mar 2001 11:10:05
- Can't understand this..............., Steven, Fri, 30 Mar 2001 10:00:54
- What was the temp outside?, Jeff S., Fri, 30 Mar 2001 09:27:09
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