had an issue w/ some front end shimmy while braking again. two times in about 17k. had the factory rotors turned and even new pads installed which was a great short term fix. however, i was not going to do this again. so, i bought and installed some slotted frozen rotors from here. i also installed the hawk lts pads. what a great combination. install time was about 2hrs which included flushing and bleeding of the lines. time will tell how good this combination is, but if individual reviews are any indication, then this should be a great upgrade.
I used the SP peerfoemance slotted rotors and Hawk LTS pads and it was very nice. The constant whrrrrr from the rotors under braking drove my wife crazy so I went back to stock rotors still with the lts pads. better than stock but not as good as the slotted rotors.
Had the same issue with our '05. Installed ATE Slotted Rotors and Pads from tire rack. Happy with them so far but there is some noise under hard braking with the slotted rotors. My wife never noticed until I said something about it.
Another benefit of the ATE pads is there is almost no brake dust now.
Not saying that ATE is any better than the myriad other choices out there, just that they have been good for me so far.
had an issue w/ some front end shimmy while braking again. two times in about 17k. had the factory rotors turned and even new pads installed which was a great short term fix. however, i was not going to do this again. so, i bought and installed some slotted frozen rotors from here. i also installed the hawk lts pads. what a great combination. install time was about 2hrs which included flushing and bleeding of the lines. time will tell how good this combination is, but if individual reviews are any indication, then this should be a great upgrade.
I don't know if your user name means you used to own a GTO(s), but that was the name given me by the guys at our shop when we built my 421 GTO. I miss that car. Disassembled when I had to go overseas for 2 years.
I am trying your combo to solve my warping rotos on my 2003 Tundra I bought to last me through my retirement. What a mistake! I don't know if the truck will last 15 years I wanted. I always take care of my vechicles even though I don't wrench anymore. As an accountant I made enough to have "professionals" do it. But lately, with Toyota, I have had extreme problems finding real "professionals". I wanted to write Toyota and tell them how sorry I felt for them since they couldn't find good dealers to support their vehicles anymore. Then I found Don Joseph Toyota and it seems better. Time will tell.
I bought the rotors and brakes from FROZEN ROTORS as you did, thanks. I talked to Bill and seems like a great guy. He is even going to Cryo some of my gun barrels! I had been looking for someone to do that for years. Makes them last forever!
The main thing I wanted to mention was that you didn't mention how very reasonable the pricing is; only $136.00 per rotor! I was expecting to pay much moreee from what I saw on the internet shoping I did Sunday. He had two on the shelf and will send them today for me! Good place to do business. Thanks.
I ask him about why don't dealerships use his rotors and his answer was about how difficult Toyota has been about using parts not made my Toyota! They could help all of us with warping rotors (every 20,000 miles) and just don't want to admit to the problem. This is the second repair in 45,000 miles. I just couldn't see myself doing this every couple of years at such a high expense.
had an issue w/ some front end shimmy while braking again. two times in about 17k. had the factory rotors turned and even new pads installed which was a great short term fix. however, i was not going to do this again. so, i bought and installed some slotted frozen rotors from here. i also installed the hawk lts pads. what a great combination. install time was about 2hrs which included flushing and bleeding of the lines. time will tell how good this combination is, but if individual reviews are any indication, then this should be a great upgrade.
I don't know if your user name means you used to own a GTO(s), but that was the name given me by the guys at our shop when we built my 421 GTO. I miss that car. Disassembled when I had to go overseas for 2 years.
I am trying your combo to solve my warping rotos on my 2003 Tundra I bought to last me through my retirement. What a mistake! I don't know if the truck will last 15 years I wanted. I always take care of my vechicles even though I don't wrench anymore. As an accountant I made enough to have "professionals" do it. But lately, with Toyota, I have had extreme problems finding real "professionals". I wanted to write Toyota and tell them how sorry I felt for them since they couldn't find good dealers to support their vehicles anymore. Then I found Don Joseph Toyota and it seems better. Time will tell.
I bought the rotors and brakes from FROZEN ROTORS as you did, thanks. I talked to Bill and seems like a great guy. He is even going to Cryo some of my gun barrels! I had been looking for someone to do that for years. Makes them last forever!
The main thing I wanted to mention was that you didn't mention how very reasonable the pricing is; only $136.00 per rotor! I was expecting to pay much moreee from what I saw on the internet shoping I did Sunday. He had two on the shelf and will send them today for me! Good place to do business. Thanks.
I ask him about why don't dealerships use his rotors and his answer was about how difficult Toyota has been about using parts not made my Toyota! They could help all of us with warping rotors (every 20,000 miles) and just don't want to admit to the problem. This is the second repair in 45,000 miles. I just couldn't see myself doing this every couple of years at such a high expense.
Hey guys. Got a quick question. I have an '01 Seq. Wondering how you can tell which size caliper it has on the front. Would the build date give an answer or somewhere else. Thanks for any help.
The caliper is stamped. My '02 has S13WE which as I understand is pre-TSB size. I am currently experiencing the front-end shakes while braking. I'm currently awaiting new rotors and pads from Wheelers and hope to get them installed this weekend.
I too have the smaller original issue calipers on my '01. Mine started with the shakes about a year ago. It started to get even worse lately so I started looking into getting the larger calipers, pads, etc. Then in the process of checking everything, figured I would check the rear brakes too. There was uneven pad wear, the grease on the caliper pins was hardened, and the rotors were showing some minor wear. Replaced the pads, put on new rotors, new shims, and greased the caliper pins with brake grease. Its been about 2000 miles now and the brakes are smoother than a babies butt, it was amazing the difference it made. Most times when the shaking starts people automatically go for the front brakes, when the rear brakes can be just as guilty. What I spent for pads/rotors/grease etc to replace the rear brakes was probably 1/4th of what it was going to cost to replace the pads/rotors/calipers/brake lines etc on the front, which in hindsight wouldnt have solved the problem anyway (at least in my case).
Well I just finished putting on my new slotted / drilled rotors and ceramic pads from Wheeler's. In the process I did find that my right front pads were wearing quite differently.
The outer pad was half gone, while the inner pad looked almost new. I didn't really notice anything until I put the new rotor on. When spinning the rotor inside the caliper I watched my new rotor wobble. I thought hmmm that can't be good so I pulled everything back off. After checking the hub(?) and re-seating the rotor and bolting the lugs (wheel off), things looked much better.
It got me wondering if this is a common problem, because I can see if you were not careful taking the wheel on and off you could inadvertently introduce the wobble and vibrations.
So far so good, we'll see if the pass the "wife test".
ps - For my first time replacing the rotors the job was pretty straight forward and took ~3 hours with a trip to the parts store for shim grease.
I don't know if your user name means you used to own a GTO(s), but that was the name given me by the guys at our shop when we built my 421 GTO. I miss that car. Disassembled when I had to go overseas for 2 years.
I am trying your combo to solve my warping rotos on my 2003 Tundra I bought to last me through my retirement. What a mistake! I don't know if the truck will last 15 years I wanted. I always take care of my vechicles even though I don't wrench anymore. As an accountant I made enough to have "professionals" do it. But lately, with Toyota, I have had extreme problems finding real "professionals". I wanted to write Toyota and tell them how sorry I felt for them since they couldn't find good dealers to support their vehicles anymore. Then I found Don Joseph Toyota and it seems better. Time will tell.
I bought the rotors and brakes from FROZEN ROTORS as you did, thanks. I talked to Bill and seems like a great guy. He is even going to Cryo some of my gun barrels! I had been looking for someone to do that for years. Makes them last forever!
The main thing I wanted to mention was that you didn't mention how very reasonable the pricing is; only $136.00 per rotor! I was expecting to pay much moreee from what I saw on the internet shoping I did Sunday. He had two on the shelf and will send them today for me! Good place to do business. Thanks.
I ask him about why don't dealerships use his rotors and his answer was about how difficult Toyota has been about using parts not made my Toyota! They could help all of us with warping rotors (every 20,000 miles) and just don't want to admit to the problem. This is the second repair in 45,000 miles. I just couldn't see myself doing this every couple of years at such a high expense.
Thank you TundraSolutions.com as well.
actually, i use "goathead" b/c everytime someone would say "go ahead" i would tell them to stop calling me goathead, and the name stuck....silly, but true nonetheless.
anyways, hope the combo works for you like it has for me. its been great so far except for the dust. however, i will gladly take the dust over the shimmy. its been a few thousand miles and so-far, so good....
I have a 2002 Tundra that had the rotors replaced at 10k, then at 20k it had the rotors replaced and toyota upgraded the front calipers, rotors and rear drums, they replaced the rotors again at 30k and finally they were warped again at 44k, at which time Toyota said..sorry, you're on your own.
I put the cryo treated, slotted and drilled rotors on my truck at 44k.
They just now need to be replaced at ...144,000 miles
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