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Well about 2 weeks ago my front brakes were making a grinding noise, I just thought it was wet or I had some dirt in there or something..wrong. It got worse and since Ive been working like a mofo for the past month I was to lazy to inspect it myself so I took it to the dealership and found out I needed new rotors and pads for my 07 with only 38'000km on them :huh: I guess I got some gravel stuck up in the caliper and it killed the left rotor and pad. Well needless to say it cost $400 and change to get it fixed. The right side still had 85% brake pad life on it to boot. Is this common for these cars?
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Never had that problem...Is your car manual or auto?
I have manual trans and I have 80k with original brakes and I have about 10k left on them...I know my dad had a 2000 spi and had to do brakes at like 45k
I think it all depends on your driving too, and $400 to do oneside wow stealership
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I've got an '05 ST, 83K, doing the first brake job on it now.
I have, however, worn out 3 gas pedals. :lol:
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Tiketz,Feb 8 2008, 11:09 PM Wrote:Never had that problem...Is your car manual or auto?
I have manual trans and I have 80k with original brakes and I have about 10k left on them...I know my dad had a 2000 spi and had to do brakes at like 45k
I think it all depends on your driving too, and $400 to do oneside wow stealership
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Ya its manual, I ended up doing both sides anyways I think rotors and pads were $250, the right side was in great shape though.
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If I had more time I would have gone with the EBC rotors and pads, about the same price.
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personally, i would have left the right side alone and just changed the left side, unless i was changing to a different pad compound.
i changed the pads on and rotors on my '00 zx3 at around 90k and i think you were on track to change at that mileage too based on the condition of the right side... about the ebc pads i haven't tried them personally but i've read that others who have decided to go with hawk hps instead
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i have ebc pads with baer rotors and the combo works great
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learn to downshift.....
I drive a 2010 Golf that growls at people when it goes over 3000rpm.
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D-Dub,Feb 13 2008, 10: Wrote:learn to downshift.....
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eh...... I would hope he knows how to downshift! That being said...... whats cheaper to fix, brakes or tranny? ;)
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D-Dub,Feb 13 2008, 01: Wrote:learn to downshift.....
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Well If you bothered to read the tread from the start you would know that I had a piece of gravel wedged in the caliper, thus killing the rotor and pad. The ohther pad still had 75% pad life.
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Stop making fun of d-dubs reading skills.
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SVTGuy02,Feb 13 2008, 05:29 PM Wrote:D-Dub,Feb 13 2008, 10: Wrote:learn to downshift.....
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eh...... I would hope he knows how to downshift! That being said...... whats cheaper to fix, brakes or tranny? ;)
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are you kidding me.....if your down shifting from 5 grand all the time, then maybe yeah, you have a future tranny upgrade.
I skipped the gravel part my mistake ......
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