Brake Issues

danwall · May 15, 2016

Recently I started to get the vibrations from my brake feelers telling me it is time to do my brakes. Once I got home and got the wheels off I noticed that my pads were worn all the way down and my rotors were showing severe wear and rust on all four rotors ( more severe on the fronts than the backs). Almost as if I was having a caliper issue but given how new the truck is caliper issues shouldn't be an issue on a 2014 Silverado 1500 even with 45,000 miles. I am pretty sure I'm going need to do at the very least rotors and pads and if the calipers are malfunctioning maybe even calipers. I was looking for some insight to see if any one else had these issues already. I will post pictures of the rotors for you guys to see.

danwall · May 15, 2016

Here are the fronts.

danwall · May 15, 2016

Here are the backs.

Daryl LBZ · May 15, 2016

It looks like the caliper slides aren't working correctly. You'll probably have to take them apart, and regrease them.

cbrsilv15 · May 15, 2016

That should be a standard process when changing out brakes anyways. I do it every time.

Jullian is not my name · May 16, 2016

I wore my front brake pads out at 36k miles. The surface of my rotors were not marred like that, but I did have a gouge on one side. I went ahead and allowed the dealer to resurface the rotors, but I wish I hadn't. Afterward, I learned that surfacing the duralife rotors takes off the FNC coating and reduces their life and other benefits of the coating. I should have made the dealer check/prove the rotor's condition to see if they really needed refinishing since I wasn't experiencing any brake vibrations or warping feelings at all.

You are probably in a position where the rotors will have to be machined, but for anyone else, keep it in mind that the FNC treatment is thin and will be removed when resurfacing the rotors (which is ok, it just turns them into normal rotors without the treatment).