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Do they have grooves carved into them?

Is there a lip on the very outside edge?

Do they shudder or shake when you are on the brakes at any particular speed?

ie. at high speed / heavy braking or slow speed / light braking.

Hmmm, will have to confirm the list. However, I've been doing extreme light braking due to like the metal grinding sound. The car does shudder under high speed braking but, I never do that because I know my rear brakes are on their way out. Will have to check the grooves and the lip.

Also, how much is it to get new pads + machined vs new pads? Just trying to get a ballpark figure (Not a quote haha).

edit: by grooves do you mean like.. cut brakes? (like aftermarket?)

And by the lip do you mean the rusty old looking housing thing that goes around the brake?( Dammit, wish I knew more about cars so I could just give the proper name of parts) If so, that's sitting further out than the disk. The front however, are completely different where the disk is HEAPS in front of that rusty housing looking thing.

Edited by RosieR34

Metal grinding sound could be your pads worn out. Didn't you get them done?

Shudder at high speed is likely warped discs / rotors.

Grooves you should be able to see but use your fingernail and run it across the face of the disc, if you feel deepish grooves in the face...

Lip will be felt at the very outside of the disc face with fingernail.

If there is a lip on the discs just get new discs man. I just had my fronts done with pmu discs and pads and it wasn't overly expensive. And you can get it heaps cheaper. If you like Jeremy take a pic of your discs and upload them. Or geOra north sider to have a look for you.

If it's the rear it's more likely you just need new pads and the rotors are fine.

Pics and we can tell more.

Xoxo gossip girl

Thanks peeps.

From the quick look I had earlier the discs were clean (No grooves and no lip). HOWEVER, I will need to 100% confirm. Those two things I would've noticed and questioned if my discs were damaged. I am hoping for my discs not needing to be machined because that is coin I do not have to repair them. I was told brake pads were like $50? that's a price I am willing to pay for haha

More like $120 for cheap standard pads.

$200-$300 for good ones.

Good thing is, its VERY easy to DIY. Wheels off, pop the spring out, swap pads, and put it all back.

I found a little bit of metal riveted to one of my rear pads. It was bent around to act as an alarm. When the pad got worn down, the metal started to make a horrible scraping sound on the disc.

yeah that's probably what it is Mik :yes:

YeaH Jeremy it will be a few hundred, 100% worth spending the extra and getting good pads. you don't

http://www.nengun.com/top-secret/super-street-brake-pads

That's pretty good value

I only need rear pads. The fronts are about.. 12 months or so old and tbh, I am an extremely like breaker, I like to roll to my stops as much as possible (of course avoiding traffic harassment :P).

Thanks peeps :)

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