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Re: bmw e30 "crunchy" brakes

by Yvan <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > May 12, 2008 at 06:36 AM

Nedavno dhs napisa:

> My 89 325i has a brake problem I haven't experienced before 
> on any other car. Several times a day, when the brake pedal
> is depressed it feels (for the lack of a better term) crunchy,
> a bit like the ABS is kicking in. For those of you who live
> up north, it feels exactly like stepping on snow that partly
> melted and then re-froze. This has been going on for several
> months and seems to be getting more frequent.
> 
> My mechanic, who used to own the car, couldn't find anything
> wrong, although we did replace one set of brake pads (and 
> inspected the other), and that didn't help. He thought it 
> might be the ABS controller, and so I tried a couple of used 
> ones (new ones are outrageously expensive), and this also 
> didn't help. 
> 
> Any ideas of what else it could be? Is this a common E30 
> problem?
> 
> Thanks for any advice.


I do not know if this is legal / safe, but you could try driving with
ABS disconnected to find out if it is ABS related.



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bmw e30 "crunchy" brakes
dhs@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (d  2008-05-11 19:54:21 
Re: bmw e30 "crunchy" brakes
Yvan <me@[EMAIL PROTEC  2008-05-12 06:36:20 
Re: bmw e30 "crunchy" brakes
dhs@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (d  2008-05-12 07:22:38 
Re: bmw e30 "crunchy" brakes
John Burns <john@[EMAI  2008-05-12 13:53:55 
Re: bmw e30 "crunchy" brakes
kludge@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2008-05-12 08:55:33 
Re: bmw e30 "crunchy" brakes
dhs@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (d  2008-05-12 19:56:41 
Re: bmw e30 "crunchy" brakes
kludge@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2008-05-12 22:04:02 
Re: bmw e30 "crunchy" brakes
dhs@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (d  2008-05-13 09:25:32 
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dhs@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (d  2008-05-15 09:43:30 

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