No mention was made of bedding the brakes in?
Recently put some ATE ceramics pads on the rear with new rotors,
instructions for bedding in brakes where very specific and lenghty,
typical German style.
Hendrik
who took the car for a trash around the block to get some heat in the brakes
On 11/09/12 05:39, Max Dillon wrote:
Very nice.
Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote:
My wife reported that the brakes in the 190D "made a noise and then got
quiet" and it scared her. Apparently her definition of "quiet" and mine
aren't the same because when I tried it the right front wheel made an
ungodly racket. It'd had a hardened spot on the rotor for some time so
I'd already ordered new rotors and pads. Yesterday I installed.
Remember a couple weeks ago I asked about replacing the rotor without
pulling the hub? A year or two ago I'd done the bearings on the
passenger front and the rotor kept falling off as I tried to set the
preload. Well yesterday that &^%$@#! rotor wouldn't come off for love
nor money. I had to pull the hub and balance it on two 2x4s and beat
the hub out of the rotor. On that side the pads fell out of the caliper
when I pulled it, neither had any friction material to speak of.
On the other side one of the big bolts that holds the caliper on would
NOT come off. I resorted to the heat wrench which is hard because the
small bolts have a little rubber bellows thing on them, I didn't
realize at the time I could take rubber bellows thing off. On that side
the pads were fine... I*think* when I did the bearing I got grease on
the rotor which created the hardspot and ruined the pads. So it goes.
Rusty sent me ceramic pads, I don't remember what brand he said they
were but they were in a Textar box. Apparently Akebono doesn't have an
application for a 190D. The rotors he sent (I spec'd the cheap PBR ones
which I had used on my '83 240D with success) are very nice and thick.
They weigh about twice the ones I took off and are marked "Made in
Germany" on the rim.
My wife is VERY pleased with the new brakes and much more confident in
the car and my abilities. The latter is of course a nice feeling.
-Curt
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