First of all,
Hello to everyone. I've recently bought my first Z3mcoupe (after having owned a 2.8 coupe for 2-3 years). I'm obviously really happy with it and have actually used this forum on and off for general information about the z3m in the past few years.
I have a question though...
I recently took the z3m to Nurburgring and while it was a great experience the brakes started acting up halfway through both of my laps. They started to vibrate quite hard during braking. This effect went away after holding back and coasting for the next 2-3 kilometer of the track. The next lap, however, same thing. After the laps the discs seemed to be slightly red / amber...but all seemed well otherwise. On the way home, however, the ABS light came on and has not come off. A specialist I spoke to suggested that I probably warped my discs but that seems counter-intuitive since the vibration actually went away...? The only other point to note is that prior to this trip, the brakes squeaked quite often during regular road-driving. Someone else suggested that the pads / discs may have ‘crystallised’ prior to me buying due to consistent slow driving and that explains a) why they squeaked and b) why they failed as they did…
Any advice / thoughts would be greatly appreciated since the specialist suggested new discs and yelllowstuff pads. I'll probably install the pads anyway but I'm not convinced it's my discs that are damaged!?
Thanks in advance for any wisdom!
Adgild
Hello to everyone. I've recently bought my first Z3mcoupe (after having owned a 2.8 coupe for 2-3 years). I'm obviously really happy with it and have actually used this forum on and off for general information about the z3m in the past few years.
I have a question though...
I recently took the z3m to Nurburgring and while it was a great experience the brakes started acting up halfway through both of my laps. They started to vibrate quite hard during braking. This effect went away after holding back and coasting for the next 2-3 kilometer of the track. The next lap, however, same thing. After the laps the discs seemed to be slightly red / amber...but all seemed well otherwise. On the way home, however, the ABS light came on and has not come off. A specialist I spoke to suggested that I probably warped my discs but that seems counter-intuitive since the vibration actually went away...? The only other point to note is that prior to this trip, the brakes squeaked quite often during regular road-driving. Someone else suggested that the pads / discs may have ‘crystallised’ prior to me buying due to consistent slow driving and that explains a) why they squeaked and b) why they failed as they did…
Any advice / thoughts would be greatly appreciated since the specialist suggested new discs and yelllowstuff pads. I'll probably install the pads anyway but I'm not convinced it's my discs that are damaged!?
Thanks in advance for any wisdom!
Adgild
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