{"id":1618,"date":"2013-06-22T11:12:25","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T18:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:09:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T23:09:56","slug":"replace-front-brake-pads-on-2006-a8l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/replace-front-brake-pads-on-2006-a8l.html","title":{"rendered":"Replace Front Brake Pads On 2006 A8L"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/replace-rear-epb-brake-pads-a8l.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><button class=\"w3-button w3-green w3-round-xlarge\">Rear Electronic Brake Pads Replacement<\/button><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The brake pads and rotors were replaced by the dealer at 55k miles-It&#8217;s 77k miles now and the brake pad warning light just came on. I planned to use the old rotors so I replace it right away to make sure they don&#8217;t get destroyed by the pads. This is how I did mine. Turning rotors at Parts House in Fremont only cost $15.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The pads actually are still good for at least a few thousand miles, but I didn&#8217;t really want to see the warning lights on the dash board. I got ceramic Power Stop for the front and Bendix for the rear. I do like American Brakes companies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"preview\" title=\"Front pad thickness with warning light on\" href=\"\/media\/audis\/06a8\/17in\/sm_w17_31.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[pads]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Pad thickness with warning light on\" src=\"\/media\/audis\/06a8\/17in\/tn_w17_31.JPG\" alt=\"pad thickness with warning light\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a class=\"preview\" title=\"Power Stop Ceramics Front\" href=\"\/media\/audis\/06a8\/brakes\/sm_pads6.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[pads]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Power Stop Ceramics\" src=\"\/media\/audis\/06a8\/brakes\/tn_pads6.JPG\" alt=\"Power Stop Ceramic\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"preview\" title=\"Power Stop Front Ceramic Pads\" href=\"\/media\/audis\/06a8\/brakes\/sm_pads7.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[pads]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Power Stop Front Pads\" src=\"\/media\/audis\/06a8\/brakes\/tn_pads7.JPG\" alt=\"front pads\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a class=\"preview\" title=\"Bendix Rear Metallic Pads\" href=\"\/media\/audis\/06a8\/brakes\/sm_pads9.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[pads]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Bendix Rear Metallic\" src=\"\/media\/audis\/06a8\/brakes\/tn_pads9.JPG\" alt=\"Bendix Rear Metallic\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"preview\" href=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/fbrake2.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[fbrake]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1619\" src=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/fbrake2-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"fbrake2\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/fbrake2-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/fbrake2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/fbrake2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6hqFFSqT3cs?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The brake pads and rotors were replaced by the dealer at 55k miles-It&#8217;s 77k miles now and the brake pad warning light just came on. I planned to use the old rotors so I replace it right away to make sure they don&#8217;t get destroyed by the pads. This is how I did mine. Turning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/replace-front-brake-pads-on-2006-a8l.html\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,67],"tags":[393,394,396,395],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a8-d3","category-brakes","tag-a8-d3-front-brakes","tag-bendix","tag-ceramic-pads","tag-power-stop"],"views":3546,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5720,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions\/5720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}