Does anyone know what this is supposed to mean?
I did a complete scan of the car and nothing seems to be out of the ordinary. It has happened twice each time during acceleration NOT braking…
Reading on AZ DaveS4 (I believe) said he had this issue just before his transmission need to be replaced… ugh!
my a6 used to do the beep/flash after I fucked up recoding the abs
my s4 used to do it when I’d launch the car
maybe try seating all the fuses to make sure its nothing simple like. and scan the abs module
Low brake fluid…don’t panic, maybe your pads are very low and most of the fluid is out of the reservoir. It’ll happen moe when you’re at a high-g maneuver…
In other news, I spent Sunday Morning taking off my Brembos and going stock, because the 18" x 8.5" forgestars don’t fit, which really sucks. Apparently only the 9" ones do. And I had stacked enough spacers to poke the wheel out so far from the fender, just to test. I guess that’s my excuse now to save my brembos for summer only, and flush my fluid twice a year…
How are your pads Dave? Low?
jspazz, that sucks. Would they just not get around the calipers, rather than having a spacer issue which is common?
The RS4 suffers from this. Basically your only option is a 19" wheel (I use OEM RS4 wheels 9.0x19 ET29) or one of like 2 or 3 18" wheels. The TDR Pro 1.2 work well. 18x9 though is needed I believe.
Thanks for the replies guys!
Beemercer/Jspazz - talked to a friend at the audi dealer and he said the same as Jspazz most likely brake pads causing fluid to be low triggering sensor.
Saki - I had the front pads changed last winter to the hawk ceramics because of that god awful squeal. It would sound like a train was coming to a stop. So it’s probably the rear pads. Won’t be going hawk ceramics this time maybe the HPS or EBC reds?
Jspazz - shitty about the BBK not fitting on 18X8.5 wheels. I’d definitely just buy winter tires for the 19’s vs swopping each time.
Bear, thats pretty low, usually the reservoir is sized for the pads/piston travel, you should get the pad sensor warning before the low fluid. If you add more fluid, tell the shop who does the brakes so they don’t overflow your reservoir when the compress the pistons back in the calipers…
Yeah, I have a set of 18" reps with snows (previous owner’s) that would NeVER fit over the Brembos. I found these 18x8.5 ET35 Forgestar CF5s for a $grand, totally mint, with hankook v12s (I hate these tires). I swapped the tires between both 18s, I keep the Forgestars with the snows, and my bro gets my old reps with the Hankooks that perfectly fit his A3 TDi.
why did I think Forgestar CF-5s would fit? I PMd Tahoskier and discussed, he is running the brembos with CF-5s, 18x9 ET43, with a 5mm spacer (total ET38). I lose 6mm with the 1/2" narrower wheels, but I’m already at ET35 so I figured another 3-5mm of spacer and I’m golden. NOPE. I stacked 13mm of spacers until I had about 2mm clearance to the calipers. The poke was so ridiculous, I lol’d for a while. Then I said fuck it, I’ll go with the stock brakes for the winter…
The clearance issue was getting more offset clearance to the raised “barrel” where the spokes meet. There was tons of room from the spokes themselves.
I’m not too upset, since i got these for less than a set of winters, my three hours are free, ATE super blue is cheap and my wife has gotten good at working the pedal to bleed the brakes. But there goes my plan for a set of light track wheels that I don’t mind banging up at the track…Plus I’m running out of room…at last count I have 8 sets of wheels at my house that aren’t mounted on a car.
start selling off those wheels and tires. Someone will take them.