I am thinking about doing brakes due to a lot of dust and noise, the pads look to be adequate still but the rotors have a pretty good Lip on the outer edge. Included the best photos I could get of the front and rear, there’s definitely some pad left. Any thoughts and opinions would be appreciated.
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I am thinking about doing brakes due to a lot of dust and noise, the pads look to be adequate still but the rotors have a pretty good Lip on the outer edge. Included the best photos I could get of the front and rear, there’s definitely some pad left. Any thoughts and opinions would be appreciated.
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I only change my rotors when I feel vibrations under braking. (not suggesting you do this, info only).
Here's a pic of my front rotor, pretty good lip on it. (somewhere around 140k miles and 1 pad change).
Was still stopping, buttery smooth. If your car comes to a stop without any vibrations, I would just change out the pads.
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Yes sir had them on order yesterday. I did do some research. I heard good things about those pads. I’m just going back-and-forth on the rotors. I’ve almost 60,000 miles on them.
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Yeah, I think that’s about what mine looks like with the lip. I was also hopeful that the pedal may stiffen up with new rotors. Is it typical for Gran Turismo‘s to have a soft pedal?
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Here's my thoughts on rotors. When there is a 2mm lip left on the rotor that means on a new set of 8mm thick pads, the life of the pads ( before warning lamp on) will be cut down 2mm. If the new pads are using the wear indicator it will turn on the warning light at 4mm ( plus add in the addition wear) brake thickness instead of 2mm. So 8-4 = 4mm before warning lamp. That's my calculation, not gospel.
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The pedal has always been slightly soft to me, same before and after new rotors in my case. Guess it just depends on what other cars you're used to driving.
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Good feedback, the other vehicles I have driven are trucks and they’ve all had stiff pedals.
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I don't use the brake wear sensors, deleted on all my vehicles that have it. Never really need it in my particular case. I'm a pretty astute DIY'er...and my lil bro gets my vehicles when I'm done with them. I don't suggest anyone follow my example, always consult the manufacturer's recommended procedures...yada, yada, yada!
When I took off my 'lipped out' rotors, they were still working perfectly fine with zero issues. Pads were fine too, I only changed them because I bought the Top Euro kit and well, new pads came in the package.
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Makes sense. The only really stiff pedal I have had is on my F355. Everything else has been pretty normal/soft in comparison.
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Guess I’ll deal with it thanks for the feedback. I appreciate all the info.
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I would do the same if it were mine, when metal on metal is heard it will still stop. But when it’s a customers car things are not as simple.
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Agreed, complete following of the maintenance manual callout, for customer cars.
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Just my 2 cents here! I had the same brake dust issue and my coice was EBC red stuff brake pads! It reduced brake dust quite a bit and no adverse issues at all!
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