skm348

Do the A4's brakes have a rear bias? My '07 Passat does and I replaced the rears at about 45K and have read that under normal use the fronts can make it to 100K. Evidently it's about a 2:1 ratio, rear vs front. I'm at 85K now w/no issues. Just was curious if B8 will be the same way.

Thanks

equinox

From the wear indications from my last service, it sure seems to be rear biased. The rear ones seem to have worn more than the front.

Audirings4

Nope, rears will usually get two times more miles than the fronts. I have no idea how people get 85k miles out of a set of pads/ rotors.

gunsmoker

Not with an automatic transmission.

skm348

You are correct. My Passat is a 6sp manual. My Passat OEM pads don't put out much dust at all and they have worked well so far. I'll more than likely stay with them when I get the frts and rears done in the next year or so. I wish there were a direct aftermarket (ie cheaper) set of pads that were cross-referenced to the OEM.

I think the rear bias on the Passat was done to eliminate front-end 'diving' and it seems to have worked well. Sounds like Audi didn't need to engineer that type of breaking into the B8 given its AWD set-up and / or the chassiss size etc. Or it simply may be may just a technology improvement over my '07.