Hi Guys,
Just looking for some general feedback on hot your S3 copes with 'heat' overall.
I went out for a little bit of a spirited drive today, only 4/5 miles up some country lanes.. the oil temperature got up to 111 degrees the highest I have seen and it wouldn't pop or bang for the next 10 minutes because it was so warm (I assume that is protecting itself as it does it every now and again after foot to the floor acceleration).
Now the brakes, I have applied POR15 to stop the disc bells from rusting and it works well to stop rust, very well. But the coating has gone black on the disc edge and the disc bells are gold. @45bvtc Do you find this with your coatings?
I wasn't that hard on the brakes because I was able to keep up some fair speed, but one stop from 60-0 finished them off, I had blue smoke piling out of the front and rear brakes. The brakes were very vague for the rest of the drive (5 miles ish) when I took it for a drive to cool down. I am guessing this is the coatings smoking? It is terribly embarrassing, I had to stop today to let someone through and there was clouds of smoke surrounding the car being given off the back brakes.
But anyway, the surface of the discs is close to purple and now I have what appear to be score marks on the face of the disc. I had this last week when I took someone out from work, smoking brakes, scoring marks in the discs and a purple face.
Do any of you other S3 owners have such issues with the brakes on these cars? I don't drive the car hard regularly, I think this is why I got Audi to agree on a set of tyres after warranty work because the tyres wear shows no sign of aggressive driving, unlike their demo cars that have pretty much been driven on the side walls haha. It makes me want to not drive it how it should be driven, I feel so guilty after it and it smells terrible. The discs feel warped for the next couple of days after the brakes smoke like this, it must be the wear on the pads as it does wear back through it.
I am unlikely to look into changing discs and pads because of this, because like I said I rarely drive hard like this. But, if there was a set of pads which would improve it drastically then I might look into it. I would have expected better from a performance car.
When I have had loan cars from Audi, I have taken them on the same mountain road and it is brutal on the brakes because 'so I've been told' it is easy to get upwards of 90mph, with multiple slows to 30. The RS3 I had never got any brake fade, never showed any signs of getting tired. But the S3 I had, have both had severe brake fade to the point where they can hardly stop the car. I have yet to take mine there for a spirited drive, because I don't want to put it through it.
Thanks in advance,
Matthew.
Just looking for some general feedback on hot your S3 copes with 'heat' overall.
I went out for a little bit of a spirited drive today, only 4/5 miles up some country lanes.. the oil temperature got up to 111 degrees the highest I have seen and it wouldn't pop or bang for the next 10 minutes because it was so warm (I assume that is protecting itself as it does it every now and again after foot to the floor acceleration).
Now the brakes, I have applied POR15 to stop the disc bells from rusting and it works well to stop rust, very well. But the coating has gone black on the disc edge and the disc bells are gold. @45bvtc Do you find this with your coatings?
I wasn't that hard on the brakes because I was able to keep up some fair speed, but one stop from 60-0 finished them off, I had blue smoke piling out of the front and rear brakes. The brakes were very vague for the rest of the drive (5 miles ish) when I took it for a drive to cool down. I am guessing this is the coatings smoking? It is terribly embarrassing, I had to stop today to let someone through and there was clouds of smoke surrounding the car being given off the back brakes.
But anyway, the surface of the discs is close to purple and now I have what appear to be score marks on the face of the disc. I had this last week when I took someone out from work, smoking brakes, scoring marks in the discs and a purple face.
Do any of you other S3 owners have such issues with the brakes on these cars? I don't drive the car hard regularly, I think this is why I got Audi to agree on a set of tyres after warranty work because the tyres wear shows no sign of aggressive driving, unlike their demo cars that have pretty much been driven on the side walls haha. It makes me want to not drive it how it should be driven, I feel so guilty after it and it smells terrible. The discs feel warped for the next couple of days after the brakes smoke like this, it must be the wear on the pads as it does wear back through it.
I am unlikely to look into changing discs and pads because of this, because like I said I rarely drive hard like this. But, if there was a set of pads which would improve it drastically then I might look into it. I would have expected better from a performance car.
When I have had loan cars from Audi, I have taken them on the same mountain road and it is brutal on the brakes because 'so I've been told' it is easy to get upwards of 90mph, with multiple slows to 30. The RS3 I had never got any brake fade, never showed any signs of getting tired. But the S3 I had, have both had severe brake fade to the point where they can hardly stop the car. I have yet to take mine there for a spirited drive, because I don't want to put it through it.
Thanks in advance,
Matthew.