RE: brake problem

["Squier, Craig" <craig_squier@arvin.com>]

Measue the worn thickness with a pair of calipers, as long as you have the
minimum meat there (Bentley has a number) its okay. It you are worried about
the groove, have someone stick it into a lathe and bump the burr off.

If you are gonna replace them, then get the Cross-Drilled/Slotted Brembo set
that Rapidparts has, it come with  Mintex pads, all for $299. I have put
60kmi on these rotors and they still look brand new...

-Cab

> ----------
> From: 	D.J. Bergesen[SMTP:achtungvr6@hotmail.com]
> Reply To: 	jettaglx@igtc.com
> Sent: 	Thursday, October 21, 1999 4:49 PM
> To: 	jettaglx@igtc.com
> Subject: 	brake problem
> 
> Anyone ever have a Grooving problem on the front rotors? My 96.5+ GLX
> 11.3" 
> front rotors have about a 1/16th in. groove around the outer edge, and it 
> doesn't seem normal (to me, the untrained VW owner). However, nothing was 
> said at the 60K servicing, or when I had my left wheel bearing replaced.
> No 
> braking problems either. I decided, for kicks, to take it to a brake place
> 
> (not like a great shop, but one of those qwik-e places that specializes in
> 
> swindling - at least in Tucson), and they told me they were destroyed, and
> 
> that the brakes shouldn't even be working like this. Price: $120/ rotor. I
> 
> KNOW I can get the 11.3" rotors for $82 per from Pep Boys.
> 
> Any words of wisdom? It's not really a groove, more like the entire suface
> 
> of the rotor is recessed about 1/16th in. from the outside part of the
> rotor 
> - picture an opened can of tuna, where the tuna is flatened 1/16th in down
> 
> from the rim of the can.
> 
> Anyone??????
> 
> DJB
> 
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