R8 - noisey brakes!

[TP321]

My R8 is constantly squeaking nder braking. Audi says its normal!!!Advise please

[sv]

What sort of driving do you do? Town/city/urban? Motorway/A-roads?

[Tame Technician]

If its

Town/city/urban

They do tend to be a bit noisey.

[TP321]

sv said:

What sort of driving do you do? Town/city/urban? Motorway/A-roads?

They squeach every time i brake! Sureley that cant be right?

[Tallbut Buxomly]

TP321 said:

sv said:

What sort of driving do you do? Town/city/urban? Motorway/A-roads?

They squeach every time i brake! Sureley that cant be right?

Due to the nature of your driving it could cause squeaking. Your best option would be to change brakes to non oem.

Edited by Tallbut Buxomly on Sunday 9th May 18:27

[anonymous-user]

Mine make no noise at all.

[DMC2]

My brakes never squeal.

Did you buy the car new? Did a previous owner upgrade to after market track biased pads? (tend to squeal)

[Dr G]

Dab of copper grease on the back of the pads but these and the RS4 brakes are known for being noisey.

[gmk666]

My RS6 does the same - I'm mainly in town too.
I don't mind it though. There's something very racing car about squeaky brakes.

[TDIfurby]

Only one solution - swap brakes with me!

[TP321]

Really pissing me off this brake issue! Had the car booked in today with audi to get it sorted out - left waiting for 45 minutes until R8 technician came back from test drive with another driver - had enough of waiting and just left! The only problem with the R8 is that although its a £100k car you just get treated the same as a A3 driver (no offence to A3 drivers). You should be getting the same level of service as you would from Porsche, Bentley etc. Couldnt even book it in the whole of last week as the R8 technician was off!!

[anonymous-user]

Where are you TP? The service I get from my dealer is never less than wonderful! Although you were pissed (understandable) and left surely getting your brakes sorted was more important than making a protest departure?

[Dr G]

Technician was probably out with a customer trying to demonstrate a fault the workshop hadn't/wouldn't normally find...

[Tallbut Buxomly]

Remember one other thing if you wish to be treated like a bentley or posrsche customer expect to pay porsche and bentley prices. Audi service dept normally are very very good i have found but in truth some arent.

[TP321]

garyhun said:

Where are you TP? The service I get from my dealer is never less than wonderful! Although you were pissed (understandable) and left surely getting your brakes sorted was more important than making a protest departure?

Wirral.

[TP321]

Tallbut Buxomly said:

Remember one other thing if you wish to be treated like a bentley or posrsche customer expect to pay porsche and bentley prices. Audi service dept normally are very very good i have found but in truth some arent.

But an R8 is anything between £90-110k so you do expect extraordinary service, and far superior than that afforded to the buyer of a £15k audi! The car is fab but the service given to its buyers is not.

[anonymous-user]

TP321 said:

Tallbut Buxomly said:

Remember one other thing if you wish to be treated like a bentley or posrsche customer expect to pay porsche and bentley prices. Audi service dept normally are very very good i have found but in truth some arent.

But an R8 is anything between £90-110k so you do expect extraordinary service, and far superior than that afforded to the buyer of a £15k audi! The car is fab but the service given to its buyers is not.

Agreed!

[Tallbut Buxomly]

garyhun said:

TP321 said:

Tallbut Buxomly said:

Remember one other thing if you wish to be treated like a bentley or posrsche customer expect to pay porsche and bentley prices. Audi service dept normally are very very good i have found but in truth some arent.

But an R8 is anything between £90-110k so you do expect extraordinary service, and far superior than that afforded to the buyer of a £15k audi! The car is fab but the service given to its buyers is not.

Agreed!

Sorry but whilst to a degree you are right the simple fact is you get what you pay for when you buy the car.
You then get what you pay for when you take it for a service which in the case of audi is decent service as apposed to excellent service like you would get at bentley but you would pay for it at bentley unlike at audi.

If you want bentley service levels at audi then expect to pay bentley service costs.

[UVB]

If my experiences with (some) Lamborghini service centres are anything to go by, there is absolutely no correlation whatsoever between vehicle purchase price and quality of service. I can't say that the manufacturer themselves have exactly been stellar either...

[TTwiggy]

TP321 said:

Tallbut Buxomly said:

Remember one other thing if you wish to be treated like a bentley or posrsche customer expect to pay porsche and bentley prices. Audi service dept normally are very very good i have found but in truth some arent.

But an R8 is anything between £90-110k so you do expect extraordinary service, and far superior than that afforded to the buyer of a £15k audi! The car is fab but the service given to its buyers is not.

'tis possible that the profit margin on a £15k A3 is better than on a £90k R8...