>Kai;
>It is my impression that the original pads wear the rotor excessively.
>Drive Safely & Good Luck
>Ken Lewis<Kernersville,NC>86 VW crewcab;60 T-5 Coupe

Actually, semi-metallic and full metallic pads wear the rotors faster than
conventional pads. But they stop better, and last longer. This is one of
the reasons that turning rotors has become a routine operation for some
repair shops.

I'll bet that most or all of the vanagons came with some flavor of organic
pads, although the later models (86 up) may have come with semi-metallic
pads.

Joshua Van Tol -- jjvantol@uswest.net