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Truck Rotors

Discussion in 'General' started by ryoung57, Mar 23, 2019.

  1. ryoung57

    ryoung57 Off his meds

    What’s a good aftermarket replacement for a 2016 Silverado. My work truck is due for brakes and the stock rotors have been warped since the very first hard stop.
     
  2. Had good luck with Raybestos
     
  3. 88/532

    88/532 Simply Antagonistical

    Ditto. Should be able to pick them up off Amazon too.
     
  4. 418

    418 Expert #59

    Guys on GRM forum recommend Centric. I tried some on the rape van, garbage. Shit was warped in 3 months.

    YMMV and all that.
     
  5. R1M370

    R1M370 Dr. P Ness

    I bought a kit from PowerStop for my 2013 F150, the rotors are drilled/ slotted so the look cool and work like a champ.
    15k miles on them so far with no complaints.
    PowerStop extreme Z36 kit (rotors & pads), the oems were garbage after 15-20k miles on my truck.
     
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  6. ChemGuy

    ChemGuy Harden The F%@# Up!

  7. borislav

    borislav Well-Known Member

    +1 on PowerStop, I put them on my Tundra, replaced stock warped junk. After brake in 10x better brakes than stock!
     
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  8. Venom51

    Venom51 John Deere Equipment Expert - Not really

    StopTech...
     
  9. dobr24

    dobr24 Well-Known Member

    Drilled, slotted rotors and hawk pads. Worked amazing on my tundra.
     
  10. precipitous

    precipitous Well-Known Member

    Most likely pad transfer to rotor and not warped. I don't skimp on rotors and pads because otherwise you'll be replacing them soon enough and the cost per mile is ridiculously cheap.

    You can get GM OE AC Delco rotors from Amazon, Rock Auto or online GM OE parts places like GMPartsDirect which are better quality than the standard aftermarket replacement stuff and cost less than dealer. Just be sure you're looking at the OE part number and not the aftermarket "advantage" or "professional" line.

    I've run replacement GM OE rotors on my van with Hawk LTS pads forever and the pads are great if you don't mind some dust, which I don't. On the car I went with Dba 4k slotted rotors on the front and OE rear with Hawk HPS pads replacing Raybestos rotors and Akebono Pro-Act ceramic pads that I was never really happy with since one front rotor was causing a shimmy and the pads just didn't have a lot of bite.
     
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  11. Rebel635

    Rebel635 Well-Known Member

    Most of the time what feels like a warped rotor is uneven pad material that comes from a hard stop then sitting with the pad clamped to the rotor like at a light.

    Go do hard stops until the brakes fade then drive for next 10 min without touching the brakes to reapply the pad material to the rotor.
     
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  12. mattf

    mattf Banned-a-lama-ding-dong.

  13. Dom17

    Dom17 Well-Known Member

    Interesting

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  14. My wife does this all the time. She rides the brakes like crazy. Then comes to a light, etc. Comes home says the brakes are “vibrating”. Do some hard stops, etc and fixed. Cannot get her to change her driving style but oh well. She goes through brakes like mad which is going to suck on the the Q7.
     
  15. Dave675

    Dave675 Well-Known Member

    Power Slot rotors and Hawk LTS Pads
     
  16. ducnut

    ducnut Well-Known Member

    I only use the Bosch rotors and ceramic pads from O’Reilly. Both have lifetime warranties, so when they act up, I just take them in and exchange them. I’m on my second set of rotors and pads from them.

    I don’t believe GM put enough rotor on the Silverado. It only takes rapidly slowing on the expressway to warp most rotors, these days. The manufacturers are trying to shave weight everywhere possible, including the brake systems.
     
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  17. K51000

    K51000 Well-Known Member

    And AGAIN as has been said, rotors rarely warp! I dunno
     
  18. ducnut

    ducnut Well-Known Member

    Explain to me what happens when you’re on the expressway and one suddenly slows from 80mph to 30mph and the next brake application the brakes are pulsing and the steering wheel is shimmying and the truck didn’t do that prior. Explain what is happening when one puts a dial indicator to the rotor and there’s runout. What causes the runout, when chucking up a rotor in a lathe and there’s obvious, measured runout. Explain to me why a brake engineer would tell me it all comes from spec’ing too little mass for the BTU’s experienced, in the name of saving weight and money. Is he nuts?
     
  19. pjzocc

    pjzocc Well-Known Member

    Not on the 2500HD. My 2012 has 106k miles and I’m still on original brakes. Though, I’m due. I’ll replace with OEM.
     
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  20. Phl218

    Phl218 .

    Needs water cooling ;)
     

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