So I started feeling my steering wheel shake when I press on the brake. When I fully depress it, the vibration goes away. Do I need new brakes? I have
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12-16-2009, 08:56 PM | #1 (permalink) |
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My steering wheel shakes when I brake
So I started feeling my steering wheel shake when I press on the brake. When I fully depress it, the vibration goes away. Do I need new brakes? I have 15,XXX miles. And yes they have been 15K hard miles
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12-16-2009, 09:02 PM | #2 (permalink) |
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When you say hard miles, does that include hard braking? It's pretty difficult to actually warp rotors. You may try bedding the pads. I've had friends that were pretty light on their brakes and developed the same thing you described. They bed the pads in and everything was smooth again.
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12-16-2009, 09:24 PM | #7 (permalink) |
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Brakes to include rotors and pads are a wear and tear item that is usually NOT covered under warranty. Everyone's style of driving is different, so no company in their right mind is going to place a warranty on something like that. Now if the the rotors came like that and you could prove it, then that's different.
Sounds like you warped the rotors.
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Canada doesn't count. Maybe your brakes were insured by that national health care system.
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If it goes away under harder braking then it is probably just build up of pad deposits on the rotors. When you've been driving hard and get the rotors hot and then come to a complete stop you can leave deposits behind. You can try re-bedding the rotors, or if that fails have the rotors turned.
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12-16-2009, 10:49 PM | #12 (permalink) |
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Basically. It's worth a shot. Even after hard braking sessions things can build up. Bedding them can smooth things out. My brakes on the STi used to feel rough as hell after a track day. I'd bed them before and after.
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They are going to say that the rotors are a wear item, and therefore are not covered. Edmunds.com had simlar issues at 15K miles with their long term test Z, and they found they had to blast the rotors.
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