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Old 09-30-2017, 05:50 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by LotsaMiles View Post
I'm not a fan of the brakes on this car, though.

At about 80k I was coming off the freeway, dropping from 80 to about 50 and they started rumbling pretty bad. I thought they were worn out, but they were not. It must just be the modern material in the brakes because I notice my wife's car does it too. It's not the pulsating of a warped rotor. It's a weird rumbling. I hate it.

I thought about getting slotted discs when I DO replace the pads, but even that doesn't look like it will do the trick. (drilled are obsolete according to every single "knowledgeable" brake rundown I read).
My wife's Camry did the same thing. The pads were fine and disc runout didn't seem to be the problem. I bet on the hunch it was a bedding issue. Took the car out to a back road and did threshold level 65-15 mph stops until the brakes faded just a bit. Problem solved.
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