I've had this problem and my father is currently experiencing this really
bad. The only way to fix it seems to have the rotors turned after the initial
problem, torque the wheels back on with a torque wrench (85ft lbs.) (don't
rely on an impact wrenchs' 'torque' setting) in a cross-star pattern, and
repeat the loosening and re-torquing at the first sign of shudder from the
brakes (my dad carries a floor jack and his torque wrench in his truck).
It's a mega pain, but it's either that or specialized rotors. BTW, I'd
recommend against vented (drilled) rotors for anything but sports vehicles (if
your Dak is all tricked out it'd probably be fine). The rotors are weaker,
and if you tow anything of any weight, one hard stop will demonstrate this.
You might not be able to stop at all the next time. Tractor Trailers don't
use vented disks (when they have disks at all). Vented disks are on
Motorcycles and sports cars for a reason. Automobile manufacturers assume a
"generic" use of a vehicle unless its a specialized one, and if you use your
Dak as a "Truck of all Trades" stay away from drilled rotors. If you've got a
sport Dak that'll never see a heavy load in the bed or a trailer, go for the
drilled stuff: it looks cool... ^_^
Shaun H.
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Just to let everyone on the DML know Chrysler has been having a hell of a time
with warped rotors. Every make that you can think of that Chrysler makes they
have a prob with it. Chrysler first put out TSB's on the first cars that came
out but they stopped when they saw that it was happening with all of the cars
(well a great majority) When I was working with my dad we at lest saw two or
tree cars come in every week that had warped rotors. From personal
exsperience
(all Chrysler products in the driveway ;-) the best thing that my father and I
have found to do is get a good set of drilled rotors. We have them on all of
our cars...you should see the looks on peoples faces when we pull up to them
in
our van and they see drilled rotors on it ;-)...and none of them have warped
yet. The only peole that I would not recomend putting drilled rotors on is a
4x4 if you do alot of muddy off-road traveling. The mud has a tendency to get
in the holes and stop them up and the only way to get the mud out is it take
off
the wheel and spray them out. Well just mu .02
Mike
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