I would never get one of those things.
I use my truck as a truck quite a bit lately.
Did you clean all that protective oil/coating off the new rotors before installing them? I’m asking even though at this point it would all be burned off.
yeah, I used brake cleaner
Maybe the rear brakes arent working at all and the fronts are now working harder and getting hot.
Bam.
The rears seem fine. I dont know what would cause them not to work.
No excessive wear and the pads look ok. If I remember right I changed pads and rotors in the rear around 30k miles ago.
what brand calipers, pads, and rotors did you put on it?
Wearever gold pads, Wearever rotors and whatever brand reman caliper Advance sells.
Junk. Junk. Junk.
My gf’s old Honda fit smoked a set of gold pads in less than a year. Do. Not. Want.
Rotors are also fucking junk. I was being frugal with my silverado. Rotors warped like a Pringle in < 10k.
Calipers are probably fine.
I replaced whatever front rotors and pads were on the truck when I bought it (they were put on right before I picked it up) after close to 70k due to warping (rotors) and wear (pads) back in October.
I put rears on it (Wearever) around 30k ago due to wear. They might have been the factory originals at that point.
I’ve used the wearevers before they weren’t bad. Lots of brake dust though. I thought the rotors had a lifetime replacement against warping and such?
I really don’t get much brake dust on my wheels, no more than any other pads Ive used before.
I had the silvers so that’s probably why.
for future reference napa gold premium or whatever the top-of-the-line shit is called are great i’ve never run wearever so i can’t comment, IMO the only parts worth buying at advance are spark plugs and moog suspension products, im sure there are others but thats all i’ve ever got from advance.
Napa brakes are excellent. Dealerships use them all the time, FYI.
smelled brakes again tonight. Im done with this bullshit and Im just going to drop it off somewhere to get it fixed.
You positive the smell is from the front?
yeah, I got down and smelled the left front.
time for a new truck jellies
fuck no. This one is getting paid off by the weekend and Im keeping it. Gonna shoot for atleast 200k out of it. Currently it only has 124k.