The last generation Intrepid was worse, current not much better. The
Mitsubitchi breathren have problems too. Mom's Sebring warped the rotors.
Talk about SMALL. But I think it's the materials more than anything.
Not like the Raybestos 12" CopCar rotors I put on my '69 Cuda. A lot of
rotating mass unforetunately, but I can run high performance driving
schools without burning up my brakes. All that mass acts as a heat sink.
Sometimes you have to compromise performance for reliability.
-STE
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Mankin" <bob@cadpros.com>
To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 11:48 AM
Subject: Re: DML: Re: brake warpage suggestion to all...
| Sam Rudolf wrote:
| >
| > I don't think that it is just DC using cheep (poor
| > quality) metal. My girl has an 99 alaro with 30K I
| > have replaced them once and had to have them reground
| > them after 10K. My 99 dak is at 33K with original
| > rotors and thats with pulling my boat and playing off
| > road.
| > sam
| > --- "Steven T. Ekstrand" <cyberlaw@earthlink.net>
| > wrote:
| > > Warped rotors can also be traced to the cheapass
| > > potmetal DC uses in all
| > > their rotors. Warpage below 20K miles is widespread
| > > throughout the model
| > > lines.
| > >
| > > The rotors being so painfully small on all DC cars
| > > doesn't help either, but
| > > mainly it's the quality of the metal.
| > >
| > >
| > >
| > >
| >
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|
| Sorry, have to agree with Steve on this one. Far too many reports on
| this very list of brake rotor issues to be blamed on wheel torque
| proceedures or just fluke instances. Geez, just compare the stopping
| power to any number of other vehicles will clearly show that the brakes
| on Gen III DAKs are undersized for the truck. DC blew it on this one and
| the reason I ragged about it a couple of days ago is because the dealers
| are seeing tons of these issues, but looking for an out rather than
| putting the customer first! Wonder if they handled their Mercedes
| clientel in the same manner how far it would get them?
|
| Bob
|
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