What did you do with your truck/shop today

[Daryl LBZ]

Semi metallic is suppose to give you better braking power and resists brake fade longer than ceramic. Read it online lol

 

Sent while in 'Murica...

Me?

[LongrangeLauber]

Me?

Haha no me. That's some of the info they give you when your looking at the EBC brake pads. Ceramic is the way to go though. I put these on about 3k miles ago and hardly any dust on the wheels. Makes cleaning the truck that much easier

 

Sent while in 'Murica...

[Chris]

I drive in bad traffic at times and put on a lot of miles. I trust ceramics

[Daryl LBZ]

I'll post the article tonight after work, it's bookmarked on my laptop.

 

I have to get brakes on my Cruze soon due to shaking at about 13k miles. The Wife's Cruze was the same way. The main problem is they will not hold themselves back on a hill. They want to take off like a run away train. The Wife drives over two mountains to work everyday, and I've driven over these same mountains a handful of times, and it has my rotors ruined already. They're long steep mountains, and slowing down at the top to about 20mph, and staying in 4th gear still has the car running away at damn near 50 mph or so by the bottom, and you can't do that because of the turns at the bottom.

 

We plan on moving that way soon so I'll be driving them everyday so I'm sort of basing my brake needs for the truck on this. That's why I went semi metallic over ceramic. I need good bite in the mountains with pads that won't hold the heat as much, and ruin the rotors. The Cruze will get semi metallic too with EBC slotted rotors. I can stand the dust, but I can't stand brake shake lol!

 

I hope that makes sense?

Edited September 6, 2014 by Daryl Z71

[Daryl LBZ]

Here's the link to the article I read.

 

https://www.topbrakes.com/c/faq

[kstruckcountry]

All I know is my "low dust" pads are a mess! Lol

[doverarjim]

I put 500 miles on the "Pigg" today

[Daryl LBZ]

All I know is my "low dust" pads are a mess! Lol

 

Haha! I can see that.

[SnakeEyeSS]

Daryl, your posts about the Cruze don't inspire much confidence about the car. Oil in the TB and now both cars had brake problems?

[Daryl LBZ]

Daryl, your posts about the Cruze don't inspire much confidence about the car. Oil in the TB and now both cars had brake problems?

Yea, not much confidence to be had. The Wife's 2012 is all but a lemon. Mine has been great so far besides the front brakes, but I only have about 13k miles on mine. The Wife has around 65k on hers.

 

The interior is the best part. The paint is literally the worst I have ever seen as far as durability goes. The Wife's looks like someone threw a pickup load of stones off in front of her while going down the road.

 

Right now the dealer is waiting on a new intake manifold to come in for the Wife's to see if that fixes the oil problems. So far it's on it's 2nd water pump, 2nd PCV valve, 2nd intake manifold when it shows up, the drivers side seat has been fixed twice, both mirror covers on the sun visors broke off, the trunk button stopped working around 40k miles, and one day she started it to leave work, and the brakes wouldn't work. Waited 20 minutes, and they worked again. Has been fine ever since.

 

Also forgot about the tire pressure sensor that failed around 60k miles.

Edited September 6, 2014 by Daryl Z71

[Durtywimmin]

Had stock muffler replaced with the 18"

MagnaFlow Stainless Steel, Dual Core, Universal Muffler - XL Turbo Series - Satin Finish. Had them put a spot weld on the Passive Exhaust Valve while it was in then open position. A little drone in V4 mode but not aggravating at all. Just turned Willie's Roadhouse up a little louder! Really like the Rumble of the new muffler!

[white1500]

Daryl, luckily you have the Silverado to give GM a good name! GM cars will forever be pos imo, to be avoided at all costs no matter the year.

[MikeNH]

Chevy; it will roundhouse kick a Ford right in the f***ing mouth

 

 

 

 

You watch that video too?

[kstruckcountry]

Y'all should check out the 3rd installment. Chevy Colorado.

[RyanbabZ71]

Cleaned out my interior from Labor Day weekend

 

 

Ryan