Another post about low dust brake pads-should they resurface rotors?
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Since I'm mad at the moment, what do you think? Should they resurface the roters when putting on the new pads? I only had about 4500miles on the car. I wasn't "sport" driving the car, but as I feel the rotors, the rear ones are smooth. The front ones feel like there are gooved lines that of a record. Should they had resurfaced my rotors? or is that normal?
I don't have the tsb, but does it say anything about resurfacing the rotors?
I don't have the tsb, but does it say anything about resurfacing the rotors?
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I must respectfully disagree. Your car only has 4500 miles on it. It's unlikely that the rotors are warped (pulsation when braking at freeway speeds). That's the only viable reason to turn rotors. The grooves you see are perfectly normal and your new pads will conform to them the first time or two you apply your brakes. The most they should do is take a scotch brite pad to them to remove any glazing, but even that is likely unnecessary on a 4500 mile street driven car.
When you resurface rotors, you're removing metal and decreasing their heat dissipation capacity. This can lead to premature warping down the road.
This one goes under the heading of....."if it ain't broke...don't fix it"!
When you resurface rotors, you're removing metal and decreasing their heat dissipation capacity. This can lead to premature warping down the road.
This one goes under the heading of....."if it ain't broke...don't fix it"!
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As someone noted in one of the other threads on the low dust pads, there are pluses and minuses to resurfacing the rotars with that low mileage. On the positive side, if they resurfaced them your pads would not have to seat over the next few hundred miles so you would have better braking right away. On the down side, there are only so many times rotars can be resurfaced without replacing them which is not cheap!!!
Mine is in the shop right now for the TSB and with 450 miles on it I told them not to resurface. It really is a matter of preference with less than 10K on the car.
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Mine is in the shop right now for the TSB and with 450 miles on it I told them not to resurface. It really is a matter of preference with less than 10K on the car.
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Definitely a matter of preference, 5k miles is borderline but remember that until they bed in, your pads will only be contacting on the high spots of the grooves. If I had to guess, 75-85% of normal pad/rotor contact. Mine did not get resurfaced and it took 5k miles to bed in or at least feel like they were 100% so definitely take that into consideration. Cost of rotors not being a concern, I would have definitely preferred that they were resurfaced or even replaced at the time of pad installation.
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I had my front brake pads replaced per TSIB at 6k. Since my brakes was kinda grabbing when braking. So they went ahead re-surfaced my front rotors. Before they were 29.5mm, after they were 29.0mm.
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doesnt sound like much of a loss. but I dunno how much damge is already done to the pads, meaning if I have them fix it at this point, the pads my have the grooves, while the roters may not.
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Just in case anyone runs into the same issue I'm having... here is a link again to the brake dust TSIB on the GS (and IS).
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/att...5&d=1170183779
Reasoning..... called my dealer today to schedule the 5K maintenance on our '07 GS350 AWD and mention I think there is way too much brake dust. I asked if there is a TSB or if they've had many complaints about excessive brake dust. My SA quickly said "nope, no such TSB exists". I said are your sure? I thought I read about one regarding the GS? (didn't have it in front of me at the time) They quickly replied "yep 100% certain - only one out there is for the IS". After pulling it again, I'm sitting here
WTF?
So, I just printed it out and will take w/ me next week when I go in for the 5K oil change. Should be interesting to see the reaction when I 'inquire'
again (paper in hand of course).
Thanks CL members for the back up and I can't wait to start using the brakes again
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Reasoning..... called my dealer today to schedule the 5K maintenance on our '07 GS350 AWD and mention I think there is way too much brake dust. I asked if there is a TSB or if they've had many complaints about excessive brake dust. My SA quickly said "nope, no such TSB exists". I said are your sure? I thought I read about one regarding the GS? (didn't have it in front of me at the time) They quickly replied "yep 100% certain - only one out there is for the IS". After pulling it again, I'm sitting here
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So, I just printed it out and will take w/ me next week when I go in for the 5K oil change. Should be interesting to see the reaction when I 'inquire'
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Thanks CL members for the back up and I can't wait to start using the brakes again
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nah, I like the passive aggressive approach better
Besides, my dealer has free service pick/delivery of loaner cars and car washes w/ every service. If I space it out right, I won't have to wash the GS again until mid/late September
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Besides, my dealer has free service pick/delivery of loaner cars and car washes w/ every service. If I space it out right, I won't have to wash the GS again until mid/late September
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