My wife's 2005 Jetta had the rears go in about 10,000 miles. Turns out
whomever set the parking brake F'ed up. Seems like they are adjusted
tight from the factory and the local mechanics are supposed to loosen
them for driving, but they don't. And Frank thought it was Chinese.
Larry
On Nov 24, 2006, at 5:07 PM, David Lieb wrote:
> Not too much of a rant, just a bit disappointed in the quality of
> the brake rotors.
> With a lousy 40,000 miles on the clock, the rear pads are gone and
> the front pads have a lot of meat left, but one of the rotors is
> trashed. I can understand rotors wearing out when you run the pads
> out, but these weren't even close to the metal. Yes, they are semi-
> metallic, but none of my semi-metallics before have done this. Looks
> like the Germans are buying dung-forged rotors! Next thing you know,
> Frank won't be able to buy Bosch, either.
> David Lieb
> 2002 GTi VR6
>
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Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
macy@bbl.med.upenn.edu
System Manager/Administrator
Neuropsychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
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