BRAKE SHUDDER ISSUE

[geea]

A good friend of mine who drives my "T" on occassion, (yes he's a very good friend) recently drove another of his friends "T's". My car is a Feb 2003 build and his other friends is a Dec 2003 build. He told me that the brakes in the two cars are totally different. He said my brakes were like any other cars brakes and similar to the brakes in his new Mazda 6. He said the brakes in the newer "T" weren't very good. He said they felt spongey and that you had to press alot harder and they still didn't feel quite right. I haven't driven this other "T" yet so I can't give a personal opinion. Maybe a few "T" owners with before and after the "fix" "T's" can get together and establish some sort of comparison.

Just for the record I have standard brakes and have never had the shudder.

Geea.

[NT TURBO]

Geea, I have a Oct 02 built car the brakes seem fine (apart from warping every 10 thou), not much travel. But I have noticed that "sinking" feeling while I've been stopped at lights with my foot on the brakes?

[ktford]

Have given the QFM's a canning in the last week including 3 hard hits in a row last night & I'm impressed. They are rebuilding my confidence in the cars braking system.

Scotty

[Guest jjsbrown]

I had the shims fitted at about 35000 klms but the shudder continued to return.

G'day All,

Newbie here, have had a Citric Acid XRT since Feb 03. It had machining down at 7500 and 15k and the "Shims fitted" at 15k.

What are the shims ??

the Service Rep was not giving much away and like Scotty (was it) I'm trying to be very nice... as the car was bought a different but close dealer (who offered his bosses demo at a great price !)

Mines an Auto and I do quite a lot of country driving but that can mean harder stops in the mountains.

JB

[Guest turbo74]

I had brake shudder after 4000kms took my T to ford and they said they would machine the rotors at least 4 or 5 times before replacing them.

so I said stuff that whats the point of going back to the dealer ship every few months so I got myself some DBA longlife gold, cross drilled and slotted front and rear, ive now done 20,000 kms and they look and feel great

[ktford]

I had brake shudder after 4000kms took my T to ford and they said they would machine the rotors at least 4 or 5 times before replacing them.

so I said stuff that whats the point of going back to the dealer ship every few months so I got myself some DBA longlife gold, cross drilled and slotted front and rear, ive now done 20,000 kms and they look and feel great

Well done but that should also conjunct with aftermarket pads.

Scotty CCC

[BADGERSXR6TUTE]

Had never noticed brake shudder before today in my ute, on a bit of a run through a local windy bit, it was a targa stage yesterday so I had to go have a run through myself and comig through the downhill section of the run I started to get a real bad shake through the steering wheel. A change to the same pads as Scotty CCC runs is coming up very shortly by what he says. It doesn't really instill a lot of confidence in you when your trying to slow down fairly quickly and steer at the same time, its made me very wary which is not good when you live in tassie and you reley on your brakes a far bit.

[ktford]

Had never noticed brake shudder before today in my ute, on a bit of a run through a local windy bit, it was a targa stage yesterday so I had to go have a run through myself and comig through the downhill section of the run I started to get a real bad shake through the steering wheel. A change to the same pads as Scotty CCC runs is coming up very shortly by what he says. It doesn't really instill a lot of confidence in you when your trying to slow down fairly quickly and steer at the same time, its made me very wary which is not good when you live in tassie and you reley on your brakes a far bit.

makes me wonder, who coined the phrase "map of tassie?"

Scotty CCC

[Adam]

makes me wonder, who coined the phrase "map of tassie?"

Scotty CCC

BADGER...good one :lol:

[3rdTurbo]

Update of my car.

Std Brakes

Feb 03 SSS Auto

Brake shudder at 9,000km (rotors machined by dealer)

New Ferodo TS2000 (formula) pads at 31,000km and Dot 5 fluid change

Brake shudder returned 33,500km (rotor machined by dealer)

To be honest I'm not too fussed if I had to get the rotors machined every 20,000km. Cost is under warranty anyway.

I do recommend a pad change to a higher spec, the Ferodo TS2000 is a very good pad and did fade when I did a track day.