Smoking brakes...

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Feb 2, 2010 | 09:28 PM
  #16  
i hope thats the issue then haha good luck man hope it works out!
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Feb 3, 2010 | 08:00 AM
  #17  
If they are new, and you got them smoking hot, i hope they are not warped now and ruined.
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Feb 3, 2010 | 09:39 AM
  #18  
Quote: If they are new, and you got them smoking hot, i hope they are not warped now and ruined.
If G35 brakes can be ruined by 5 minute drive through a residential neighborhood I think people would have already posted that here. But I appreciate your positivity and concern for the car...it's touching.
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Feb 3, 2010 | 10:00 AM
  #19  
No need to act like an azz, noob. ^^
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Feb 3, 2010 | 11:19 AM
  #20  
Quote: If G35 brakes can be ruined by 5 minute drive through a residential neighborhood I think people would have already posted that here. But I appreciate your positivity and concern for the car...it's touching.
No offense but you don't have to be an *** about it. Most of the first posts were asking you for more info. You didn't even post a photo of the rotors til the very end of the first page...not even 3 posts before mine. Just because i expressed a negative situation doesn't mean I'm am not making a logical point.


Let's review the facts.

You said

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just gave my wife a ride around the neighborhood. (a fairly hot lap) And when I got back to my driveway the brakes were smoking!
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Maybe I just turned in a Mario Andretti lap on this poor driving miss dairy G35.
Now by your words, this doesn't sound like a normal easy drive around your neighborhood. Sounds like you pushed the car a bit. Hopefully there were no children on the road during this "test" drive through a residential neighborhood

Then there is the photo. You can see clearly there is no rust on the vented side portion of the rotor, so you can reasonably assume the rotors are new and not in fact turned. It's not the greatest picture to look at, so i could be entirely wrong and the rotors are in fact not new, but by what has been posted, this is my opinion.

SOO.... I'll give you two explanations. One you'll like and one you won't like.

#1. GOOD It's just the manufacturing oils used to coat the rotor during machining and storage to prevent the rotor from rusting up as it sits on a shelf baking off from the heat. No damage done and i think this is the most logical explanation.


#2. BAD. The rotors and pads are new and were not properly bedded in. By overheating them and then allowing the pads to rest on the surface for a short period of time deposits friction material on the rotor surface and (within a few days or weeks) will develop a pulsation in the pedal during high speed sustained braking. In other words, new rotors are basically ruined.

Sorry if nobody else has said it yet, but both scenarios are entirely plausible.
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Feb 3, 2010 | 06:36 PM
  #21  
yup ^ hes 100% right
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Feb 3, 2010 | 06:50 PM
  #22  
Spoke to the dealer when i returned the car. He agreed with your assertion #1. Apparently it had a brake job 2 hours before I picked it up.
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