Took the car down to the dealership 10:30 this morning and got the exact response that I suspected I would. Service technician came over to help me and I told him ( and showed him) the brakes. He agreed with me on the rotor wear being accessive. Since his service center would have to order the parts he calls over a service manager to look at the car. He takes one look and tells me that this wear is considered normal (I'll have pictures up sometime shortly for my wife has misplace the cable I need to import them into the computer). He then goes on to tell me that "this is a high end sport braking system and they're supposed to do that". I tell him that I've owned two cars that had Brembo systems on them and I had never seen scoring like this at 20,000 miles on either system ( the 8 has just under 3000 ).
i know I am not the first person to bring this up and my rotors look as bad if not worse than those of you who have posted about this before. I can also honestly say that the service manager was very cool about the issue except for the fact that in closing he also made it a point to tell me "it could be due to your driving style". I have become a certifiable Autostick junkie since picking the car up and if anything I've been particularly easy on the brakes since I saw the first posts about this problem.
I got to him print an invoice that reads " customer complaint -rotor scoring. Service manager spoke with customer diagnosed and found all operating as designed, no repairs needed." So now I'm off to DCX headquarters to document the problem with them. If any of you are noticing a similar pattern, please see your service center so we can get enough reports for DCX to have to deal with this.
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