I noticed my car starting to shake while breaking today. I inspected my rotors and they don't look warped or scared and my pads still have quite a bit left on them. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions. I was thinking that it was the rotors, but if they did warp enough to make the car shimmy when braking, I would imagine that you would be able to see that.
Help?
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I inspected my rotors and they don't look warped or scared
There's no way you could see the warpage needed to make your car shimmy. Its fractions of a millimeter...
Our cars have a tendancy to eat the brake pads and rotors after about 25,000 miles.
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Our cars have a tendancy to eat the brake pads and rotors after about 25,000 miles
I think the word eat is an understatement.....devour is a better term.
and yes Shifted is right, you'd never see any warpage with you eye's
If they're in fairly decent shape and not too old, get them turned and see
if it improves your "shimmy-ing"
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence you tried!
speak for yourself my sunfires have given me good life on breaks, i put raybestos on never had problems. i have 50 000km on my GTs breaks and i have 25 000 mabey 30 000km left,
don't ridem or beat on them
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So seeing that I have 70,000+ on my stock rotors and pads is a good run them hmm?
Sounds like time to change them... All is well, I was planning on putting some KYB Gas Struts when the weather warms up anyway... Thanks Guys and Gals!
Darrell Mammenga wrote:So seeing that I have 70,000+ on my stock rotors and pads is a good run them hmm?
yeah, that sounds like the problem right there...
i replace my pads roughly every 25k whether they need em or not, and ill be replacing my rotors in june when they have about 50k on them.
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I'll agree with you all, our cars love the pads.
I've also heard that because of the way they are designed (cavis) the rotors heat up real fast and warp easier.
One thing Ive heard that helps, and that I do... when you come to a stop (stoplight) from high speeds, come to a complete stop for about 10 seconds, then let the car roll forward about 1 and a half feet and stop again so your pads are on a differents spot of your rotors.
Yet another thing I do, if on level ground, is just throw it into neutral and let off the brakes.
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I just installed the power-slot hawk combo gravana has going on right now. I had 40,000 miles exactly(within 11 miles of actially) hard braking resulted in a horrible shimmy. The power slots with hawks are smooth as butter, provide smooth braking with a little pressure, and incredible stopping power when you need it.
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