"cbell04" (cbell04)
08/24/2016 at 09:46 • Filed to: None
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"cbell04" (cbell04)
08/24/2016 at 09:46 • Filed to: None | 1
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Wife mentioned it was making some noise so figured better take a look. Confirmed pads annihilated. Oem thickness for reference. Love having a vehicle that you can do an entire brake job with 2 wrenches and 45 minutes of time?
*total money spent $136.00 pads and rotors. Just for giggles called firestone got a quote of $360.00 and bet a dealership would tack on another hundred. I’m poor and like doing it myself, win/win.
random001
> cbell04
08/24/2016 at 09:48 |
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Those look, uh...fine! Yeah!
But those one’s on the bottom, they definitely need replaced.
jimz
> cbell04
08/24/2016 at 09:49 |
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eh, that’s got plenty of life left. ain’t worn out until this:
SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
> jimz
08/24/2016 at 09:50 |
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Extra ventilation.
OPPOsaurus WRX
> jimz
08/24/2016 at 09:53 |
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that must have sounded awful. and how is there anything left on that pad at all?
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cbell04
> jimz
08/24/2016 at 09:58 |
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Geez world’s strongest pad backing plate
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cbell04
> SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
08/24/2016 at 09:58 |
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As wrong as I know that is it does kind of look cool
Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
> jimz
08/24/2016 at 10:00 |
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My uncle left his to this. The guy doesn’t spend a dime on maintenance unless the vehicle actually stops functioning. He just drives it for between 5-10 years and then drops $ in repairs instead.
The vehicle in question was a Chevy Silverado 2500HD Duramax, somewhere in the range of 1999-2001. Chipped, otherwise stock. Aggressive driver. Beat every day of it’s life. Also a towpig and plough truck, and seen some drunk (offroad trail) driving. (While I cannot condone this I can’t deny it either. Point is, it’s been through the mill.) OEM brakes were finally changed at 8-10 years old and looked like your pic. Oil got changed maybe once or twice in that period, and only because a few friends took pity on it. Apparently there was very little oil actually left in it.
I could go on, but you get the picture. Most amzingly, it took it like a champ and it’s still being used to plough snow, though it’s been retired from road duty.
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cbell04
> random001
08/24/2016 at 10:00 |
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We can’t all have brembo! Wouldn’t hurt here. Dodge caravans have notoriously lousy brakes. Easily overwhelmed when loaded up with people and gear.
shop-teacher
> cbell04
08/24/2016 at 10:02 |
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I would say you waited the perfect amount of time. There’s still pad on there, so it wasn’t unsafe.
merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc
> cbell04
08/24/2016 at 10:02 |
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As mentioned, that's still got some life left. If you're not down to metal, you're still good. Gotta get your money's worth out of the pads.
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random001
> cbell04
08/24/2016 at 10:05 |
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True. My parents always drive carefully with theirs when loaded because of the brakes.
I once had the shop tell me I needed brakes, as they were at 3/10ths pad depth. I was in for some TSB.
I had just replaced the brakes with new rotors and pads a week before.
MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
> cbell04
08/24/2016 at 10:20 |
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Yeah it takes a few more tools but should only take the same amount of time on my Mercury Milan.
Except rust.
Took 5 hours to do my front brakes last weekend, couldn’t get one rotor off for the life of me. Finally used a trick to pop it off with some spare bolts. Almost lost my mind.
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cbell04
> MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
08/24/2016 at 10:37 |
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Ahhhh you bring me great pleasure to say I moved from the rust belt of western ny to sun shiny NC. What a difference. I immediately ditched both of our northern vehicles. This van (southern car) has no rust and I swear to you every single nut and bolt comes off with little to no effort and I freaking love it. As you were saying every single one hour job turned into 4 hours and a couple trips back to the parts store due to rust and I don’t miss it.
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cbell04
> shop-teacher
08/24/2016 at 10:45 |
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I agree except that I just did a two Thousand Mile Road Trip from North Carolina to Canada and then zig zagged back to NC all while fully loaded with fam and gear and was feeling the lack of pad on those mountain passes
davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
> Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
08/24/2016 at 10:47 |
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Like a rock.
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shop-teacher
> cbell04
08/24/2016 at 10:53 |
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Gotcha, yeah you probably waiting a bit too long then.
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Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
> davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
08/24/2016 at 10:54 |
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F*ckin’ A, man.
Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
> jimz
08/24/2016 at 11:03 |
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I wonder how loud that would be
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MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
> cbell04
08/24/2016 at 11:15 |
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My dad’s a mechanic (ASE Master for I dunno more than 2 decades at this point?) and I grew up in Northern NJ where he ran a shop. He moved to the very southern tip of SC and can not STAND when northern cars pull in his shop down there. He’d rather them scrap the car than make him fix a northern one HAHA.
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davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
> Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
08/24/2016 at 12:00 |
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A poor, neglected and abused rock.
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Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
> davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
08/24/2016 at 12:40 |
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But a rock nevertheless. And hey, diamonds are formed under pressure.
I really don’t understand how it stood up though...
BigBlock440
> OPPOsaurus WRX
08/24/2016 at 12:54 |
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There isn’t. That’s why it wore away the rotor, metal on metal.
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BigBlock440
> cbell04
08/24/2016 at 12:58 |
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Unless you changed them in the middle of the trip, I don’t know how you could have done it any differently. That trip probably wore 1/4 of the life off those pads.
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BigBlock440
> cbell04
08/24/2016 at 12:59 |
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Eh, looks like you’re right there at the tab that lets you know it’s time to change them.
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cbell04
> BigBlock440
08/24/2016 at 13:18 |
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Naa. That’s a bit much I get 30k minimum from a set so a heavy 2k mile trip would be more like +/- 5-7% of the pads life. Either way it was a success so I’m cool with it
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cbell04
> MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
08/24/2016 at 13:20 |
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Love when a neighbor buys a used car and the it turns out it came from the rust belt. I have to bite my tongue and just nod like yeah yeah you got a sweet deal..
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MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
> cbell04
08/24/2016 at 13:21 |
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yeah if I lived down there I can guarantee I’d never buy a car registered in the north.
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cbell04
> merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc
08/24/2016 at 13:22 |
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Because I always do my own I don’t mind a few days of grind because I’m 100% doing rotors at the same time so who cares. Pads are about 40-50 bucks and I get 30+k out of them so really is a bargain considering how important they are
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BigBlock440
> cbell04
08/24/2016 at 13:25 |
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But how often during that usual 30k is the van loaded up, and how often is it going up and down those Smokeys?
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cbell04
> BigBlock440
08/24/2016 at 13:34 |
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Smokeys not so much normally but realistically that was about 3 hours of the trip total between there and back. I used and abused 4 dodge grand caravans from zero to 130k miles as company vehicles (I drive about 55k a year for work) and they were always loaded in fact loaded beyond any recommended limits and I still stick by my estimate. My 30k on a set of pads was actually my work vehicles guess bet I get closer to 40 in the person family van. Anyway either way like I said definitely was due for a swap.