Background: Vehicle bought for my sister ($700) in August 2014 without any maintenance records.
Hey guys, I need some help understanding/diagnosing.
When you apply brakes to the car at higher speeds, the car vibrates, the vehicle's stopping distance is just fine and seems normal to me. In the past I have thought of it to be a brake rotor issue and have always had the mechanic replace both brake pads & rotors and that has always fixed the issue.
When I was working the the vehicle's suspension previously I saw the rotors "seemed" new and the brake pads were new as well from the look of it and also there was an old set of Duralast Gold brake pads in the trunk with plenty of pad left but uneven wear, which was probably caused by the brake booster vacuum hosed being disconnected (whichever genius worked on the brakes previously) and the vehicle was driven that way for a while.
Also some genius mechanic also replaced the water pump on the car and left the coolant temperature sensor disconnected, which caused the vehicle to randomly jerk upon acceleration, the issue was fixed by me plugging the coolant temperature sensor back in place...
Will replacing both rotor & pads, fix this issue?
I do intend to use the follow parts if I'm going to replace:
1. Duralast Gold Brake Pads (for it's lifetime warranty)
2. ACDelco Professional Durastop Brake Rotors (listed as heavy duty on rockauto.com)
Since the OE material is ceramic and I have read/heard that some people are able to get 100k out of ceramic? I want to do a proper brake setup now and be good for a while.
Hey guys, I need some help understanding/diagnosing.
When you apply brakes to the car at higher speeds, the car vibrates, the vehicle's stopping distance is just fine and seems normal to me. In the past I have thought of it to be a brake rotor issue and have always had the mechanic replace both brake pads & rotors and that has always fixed the issue.
When I was working the the vehicle's suspension previously I saw the rotors "seemed" new and the brake pads were new as well from the look of it and also there was an old set of Duralast Gold brake pads in the trunk with plenty of pad left but uneven wear, which was probably caused by the brake booster vacuum hosed being disconnected (whichever genius worked on the brakes previously) and the vehicle was driven that way for a while.
Also some genius mechanic also replaced the water pump on the car and left the coolant temperature sensor disconnected, which caused the vehicle to randomly jerk upon acceleration, the issue was fixed by me plugging the coolant temperature sensor back in place...
Will replacing both rotor & pads, fix this issue?
I do intend to use the follow parts if I'm going to replace:
1. Duralast Gold Brake Pads (for it's lifetime warranty)
2. ACDelco Professional Durastop Brake Rotors (listed as heavy duty on rockauto.com)
Since the OE material is ceramic and I have read/heard that some people are able to get 100k out of ceramic? I want to do a proper brake setup now and be good for a while.