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Posted by sloopJohnB (more from sloopJohnB) on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:20:53 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: Quick question, DWR, Wed, 9 Jan 2008 13:02:46
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Fair disclosure, I own an Audi 4.2A6Q. Front and rear brakes under warranty at the dealer (tischer in laurel, md) run about $1600 at 32K miles. Not gonna argue, Audi paid. Front and rear rotors and pads. Went through front and rear pads/rotors again around 80K miles.

The rear calipers went bad (e brake ) and replacement calipers were over $500 apiece. Tech rebuilt them for about $500, worked for several years.

I just replaced the rear pads again only did it myself...cost me $40 for the Harbor Freight tool to retract the rear pistons and $45 for euro pads (recommend textar or Hawk HP plus if you can get them...your ABS will compensate for the extra braking torque, use the same pad next time on the fronts). I didn't replace the rotors...not scored, not worn.

A problem with audi is that the wear allowance for the rotors is only 2mm....that's one mm for each side!! If you stick to that you'll replace rotors every time. It could also be that Audi feels the max displacement of the brake piston with a worn rotor is beyond the safe travel of the piston...I haven't personally checked where the seal ends up but I seriously doubt it comes very close to the outer edge of the cylinder with a brake pad worn to 2mm. I've never worn a brake pad to the wear limit, much less the metal, so it shouldn't matter.

It took me about two hours to do the brake job on the A6 rear w/o the rotors. That includes using a tool I had never used before that sheared the roll pin (cheap Chinese scato) working the rotator..had to use a drill bit and reset it every 180 degrees). So even at shop labor $100/hour plus pads plus rotors it sounds too expensive.

$120 or $170/pr(slotted) rear rotors at performance brake---just google brake rotors. $33 or $36 for semi metallic stock or ceramic rear pads.

Front rotors$180 or $230/pr slotted, pads 38 or 42.

Add it up and he's getting under 200 for labor. sounds fair to me.








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