brake fade on 318is

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tomtomtom
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Fri Sep 14, 2007 12:54 pm

bought one of these the other night and after a mild caning the brakes faded pretty quickly causing me to have an arse twittering moment :eek: coming up to a junction, does anyone else have this prob? will bleeding with fresh fluid sort it?

p.s. i'm looking for a LSD as someone appears to have pinched mine, not bothered if its 4.1 or 3.9 or if its too thrashed as long as i know what needs doing/making i can sort it at work...maybe.

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maxfield
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Fri Sep 14, 2007 1:37 pm

iS LSD's were only an option.

There's obviously a problem as not many people can fade brakes with standard setup with more HP.
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kadettc
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Fri Sep 14, 2007 3:33 pm

Depends how hard you drive it and how late you leave your braking to be honest.................fading standard brakes really isn't that difficult.
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Fri Sep 14, 2007 6:17 pm

I used to fade ugraded iS brakes all the time. Went to std M3 running gear and haven't since. The E30 should have had 280mm all round imo.
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Fri Sep 14, 2007 6:40 pm

maxfield wrote:iS LSD's were only an option.

There's obviously a problem as not many people can fade brakes with standard setup with more HP.
pardon! i can fade the drilled discs with ebc greenstuff on my iS.
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