Reggie

Been working on putting new brakes on the A4 (A8 brake mod) as well as new shocks - getting the car ready for my daughter. Then I changed out the EBC greens pads I had put on the RX300 because they squeal too much - read about it on the forums after I had bought them. So I went back to OEM (but of course had to buy new shims for the pads as I had thrown the old shims away as they would not work with the EBC pads) and then I also had to order new brake caliper bolts as one of them sheared off when I was torquing it. The replacement one also sheared off (after the first one sheared I just tightened the rest by hand as I suspected the torque values I had were wrong and now have confirmed that to be the case - will have to do some digging to find the real value).

Now that I just picked my daughter up from the airport I will be back to driving the RS on the ice covered roads here in Fort Collins.

Bleu CHEEZE (Loren)

you should paint the bricks white, and the flower pots too

Reggie

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Bob W.

same thing happened to me when I was installing my exhaust...torquing one of the nuts on the forward 'sleeve' and POW!!!

Reggie

yeah - the lexus forums say 25 ft-lbs - the shop spec says 79. No wonder it sheared

AchTTung--Vollgas

The StopTech instructions that came with the brake kit for my TT said to torque the bridge bolts to something like 15-20 lb-ft. I contacted them after I took this picture, and I was told they revised the instructions to "hand tight." They were good enough to send me all new bolts, though.

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AutoUnionQ7

that dog looks cute. what breed?

Agent Orange

i don't drive much in nyc, but took it out yesterday and was smiling all day

Reggie

Thanks Samoyed with chow mix (partial black tongue)