My guess would be due to material that will allow a greater bite from the pads, which are probably more aggressive as well. Maybe the metal used is a bit softer to allow more bite, or extra heat developed from the extra friction of high performance pads... If you read about pads that are more aggressive, like for the track...not that ours are for the track but, they state they are hard on rotors.

 

that's bull crap. My first time needing to change the brakes, they turned mine. They said they could only be turned once, but they could do that for you. Go somewhere outside of the dealer. At the time, Performance Nissan in Duarte, CA did mine, so it's not like some schmo at a MIDAS did the work.

 

i'll be calling you up soon to get this job done. TIA. btw, this is Reals mang.

 

**** the dealership. i got my whole brake setup for 800 and something shipped. back when brian worked at 350zonlinestore. but now some other guy is there. i have rotora front adn rear slotted and project mu ns pads front and rear. and it makes stock brembo look like civic drum brakes. and dust is nothing what the new setup did in 2 weeks the brembo did in a compule of days. I highly recomend.
and does anyone know brain personal im trying to get a hold of him
-Tim

 

I did my brake a few weeks ago..

Brembo dont recommend to turn the rotor because of the big airflow channel in the disc, there is simply not alot of steel on the disc to resurface. Also, i think there may be a surface treatment that you would remove with the resurfacing of the rotor.

the BEST is to resuface the disc on common vehicule, but if they dont have deep groove on the braking surface and the brake pedal dont pulsate/jump (that would mean your disc are warped) I would clean them and put new pads...that's what I have done.
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Bought for the job:

hawk HPS pads (frt and rear)
Lubricant grease
Anti-noise
Brake cleaner bottle
Touch up paint (honda gold inca) for brembo caliper rock chip


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The next 40000km brake service will probably cost me disc brake, I wont go to the dealer to buy them....

 

Just let me know so that I can ask my Dad to reserve a day for us at the shop.

 

And you would be WRONG. As I stated above, I had my rotor turned at a Nissan dealership and I have 6,000 miles on them since with zero issues. I too replaced the stock pads with Hawk HPS's...great pads.

 

^^^how many miles when u first turned your rotors? im at 28K and my dealer don't want to do it, they said it's below specs already, but if nissan or other shops will do it, i might just put the new pads in and stashed my new drilled brembos for later use. ill just wore out these oem rotors first.

 

I cut mines once already at 18k. I do a lot of tracking...I think I'm going to be due for rotors soon.

 

Brembo rotors have very little room for wear. Why couldn't they just make them a little thicker? 1-2mm or so.

 

25k

 

Am I weird? Because I've got almost 50k and never turned my rotors once, and changed my pads at 18k and still have at least half the pad life left... I have the EBC Greenstuff pad btw. My rotor's still look good too. How are you guys driving??

 

I have track days once a month, and drift sessions once a month. thats two events every month on the same pads. my pads just got replaced regarding a tsb...so i got new brembo pads. So I'm on my 3rd set. at 26k

 

I found the Brembo slotted brakes (front and rear) for $705 shipped from www.importrp.com. I looked around and that was the best place I could find. I ordered the Prject MU B-Force pads from Boosted Concepts for $185. So that's a total of $900.

I could have went with Rotora slotterd rotors for $530...but for only $170 more for all 4 rotors, I went with Brembo. It was worth it to me to have the name and quality.