Front Brake job on 2004 chy sebring

[rwise]

I am replaceing the original roters with groved cross drilled roters and ceramic pads. Chrysler has had a problem with roters (hard spots) since the 70's and when I do a brake job I change them out. Sure they could be turned but they will do the same thing again and again. I have never ran ceramic pads before, anything I need to know before I start ripping this thing apart?

 

[SuperNova]

Re: Front Brake job on 2004 chy sebring

News to me as far as the known problem with hotspots goes. We turn the rotors all the time and the jobs last between 25,000 and 40,000 miles using the factory rotors and value line pads. I haven't seen any "hotspot" problems at all. Nothing special about your '04 sebring, either as far as doing the brakes goes. But I think the ceramic pads require a different break-in procedure and they don't stop very well until they are broken in.
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Stan

 

[ezmobee]

Re: Front Brake job on 2004 chy sebring

My mechanic friend put ceramics on his wife's caravan. She said the damn thing won't stop now.

 

[rwise]

Re: Front Brake job on 2004 chy sebring

News to me as far as the known problem with hotspots goes. We turn the rotors all the time and the jobs last between 25,000 and 40,000 miles using the factory rotors and value line pads. I haven't seen any "hotspot" problems at all. Nothing special about your '04 sebring, either as far as doing the brakes goes. But I think the ceramic pads require a different break-in procedure and they don't stop very well until they are broken in.
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Stan

25k is not unuf for me, 40k is well acceptable, if the roter/s did not have hard spots I would turn them, but hard spots come back fast. I have always used soft pads when doing a brake job to keep were off the roters, so the brake in is a concern. Just my luck, get the last one with bad roters the old roters might be recoverable with a heat treat, but why? I took an older roter to a metalurgist and had a brinell test ran on it, it had hard and soft places in it, so any time I get this pulse I just plan to replace roters and pads, and no OEM! I like to use the canadian made replacement/s, never had a problem with them, hope these work out as well!

I have heard if you get the ceramic pads too hot they will stop working???

 

[SuperNova]

Re: Front Brake job on 2004 chy sebring

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I have heard if you get the ceramic pads too hot they will stop working???[/QUOTE]

Nah, I understand the whole idea with ceramics besides being cleaner is they work better the hotter they get.
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Stan

 

[Autotech1]

Re: Front Brake job on 2004 chy sebring

Use cheapy pads, they most often work better and wont wear the rotors as fast. also they wont fade when used with cross-drilled-slotted rotors as the gasses are evacuated by the venting action of the holes/slots.

 

[rwise]

Re: Front Brake job on 2004 chy sebring

Well the rotors and pads never showed up so I have filed with ebay to get my funds back from Kim and Judy Uy (forcerotors) so I guess I am looking again for rotors