Orange_Crusader
Moard Bember
- Joined
- Jun 8, 2006
- Location
- Ontario, Canuckistan
1996 855 GLT, 430k km's.
All work done by a shop, for reference, I lacked the time to do it myself.
Just had the rear brakes re-done, the right rear caliper was seized so a rebuilt one (which checked out fine) was bought and installed, rotors replaced (with Nordic brand ones) and OEM pads, front pads also replaced with OEM, the rotors were in good shape and didn't need replacing. Right front caliper was replaced last year with a rebuilt.
Since the work got done, the car shudders heavily on hard braking, no vibration just rolling along and no caliper dragging that I can hear, but it definitely brakes unevenly, even low speed braking where I just slightly apply brakes to creep forward, I can feel it braking much less as it rolls, as if the rotor was really warped, so the car sorta studders forward, for lack of a better term, as the brakes go between hardly any force and full force expected at that pedal position. Slowing from 60ish mph causes a lot of vibration/shaking of the entire car, kinda scary. Feels as if the shuddering is coming from the back, since the steering wheel doesn't shake at all, which I expect it would if the problem was one of the front brakes.
So what do I check/do first? Head back to the shop and have them figure it out? Call up FCP and see what the return/exchange/refund policy would be here? Enjoy my free massages?
All work done by a shop, for reference, I lacked the time to do it myself.
Just had the rear brakes re-done, the right rear caliper was seized so a rebuilt one (which checked out fine) was bought and installed, rotors replaced (with Nordic brand ones) and OEM pads, front pads also replaced with OEM, the rotors were in good shape and didn't need replacing. Right front caliper was replaced last year with a rebuilt.
Since the work got done, the car shudders heavily on hard braking, no vibration just rolling along and no caliper dragging that I can hear, but it definitely brakes unevenly, even low speed braking where I just slightly apply brakes to creep forward, I can feel it braking much less as it rolls, as if the rotor was really warped, so the car sorta studders forward, for lack of a better term, as the brakes go between hardly any force and full force expected at that pedal position. Slowing from 60ish mph causes a lot of vibration/shaking of the entire car, kinda scary. Feels as if the shuddering is coming from the back, since the steering wheel doesn't shake at all, which I expect it would if the problem was one of the front brakes.
So what do I check/do first? Head back to the shop and have them figure it out? Call up FCP and see what the return/exchange/refund policy would be here? Enjoy my free massages?