RE: Rear calipers w/ E-brake trouble

[Brooke Fairbanks <Brooke@minn.net>]

What's the deal then with my 87 GTI 8V rear calipers...  ...I've never had 
a problem with them (over 100K miles) and I believe they are the same as my 
87 Scirocco 16V.  Yes, No?

-----Original Message-----
From:	Neal Tovsen [SMTP:ntovsen@piper.hamline.edu]
Sent:	Friday, August 13, 1999 4:58 PM
To:	Brooke Fairbanks
Cc:	'scirocco list'
Subject:	Re: Rear calipers w/ E-brake trouble

There's really nothing you can do (that I know of). This is the one part
of the 16v that there's NO help for. What I did was to buy rebuilt
calipers and got the lifetime warranty that BigWheel Rossi (a chain here)
offers. My rebuilt calipers ALREADY don't have a working e-brake, and it
failed in less than a month. I'll take them back whenever I get around to
it. Seems like most people get more time out of them than that, but they
all fail eventually. The break works fine, but the e-brake sucks. My
mechanic (90 Cabrio with a 16v conversion) is looking into a completely
aftermarket solution, but hasn't gotten back to me yet. It'll probably be
expensive...

Neal

Brooke Fairbanks
Savage, MN
87 Scirocco 16V
87 GTI 8V
95 Audi 90S


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