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[nlowe79 at gmail.com (Nate Lowe)]

Hm, I've never heard of this. I'll check my rotors, but they're after market
10.1" with new pads on them so I'm not sure they would have that feature. I
suppose I could also turn the wheel with the car jacked up and see if I
notice any "rough" spots. That'll give me a chance to give a closer look to
the stuff Alan mentioned also just to be sure.

Nate

On 12/3/06, Karl Krupke <kkrup62@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Here's a shot in the dark... early Scirocco's (at least up to my old '79
> Mk
> 1) had a mechanical brake pad wear indicator; a ridge cast into the rotor
> inside the main pad surface. When the pad wears down far enough, a shelf
> on
> the pad contacts the ridge every revolution. It creates a "thumping" or
> "thunking" sound, which can easily be heard through the floor pan/fender.
> You'd probably also feel a slight "wobble" in the steering wheel.
>     And obviously it'll be consistent with road speed.
>     Easy to check, just pull the wheel and see if there's a ridge on the
> brake rotor, I seem to remember it's about 2" long or so; if it's there
> and
> it's shiny check your brake pads.
>
> Karl
>
> >From: "Nate Lowe" <nlowe79@gmail.com>
> >To: "julie@menloparkrandd.com" <julie@menloparkrandd.com>
> >CC: Scirocco List <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> >Subject: Re: It's Alive!
> >Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 09:15:45 -0500
> >
> >That's a thought. I guess my main issue is how to diagnose something like
> >this. I suppose for the tire i could just rotate them and see if the
> sound
> >moves to a different location. If it's something else how would you go
> >about
> >figuring it out? I can't exactly look under the car while it's moving.
> >
> >Nate
> >
> >On 12/3/06, julie@menloparkrandd.com <julie@menloparkrandd.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>How about a tire? I had a tire that did some thing similar on the black
> >>MKII. It went "whap" at certain speeds.
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