Rotor upgrades

by **Sebas007** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 11:54 am

cklinh wrote:This is kinda related but kinda not...

I remember there being talks about the first batch of 2004 Gen 2's having different sized brake pads, and then production changed.

Anyone know for sure whether that is the case? And would R1 Concepts know about that if I let them know when my car was built? (December 2003, I believe, which may be one of the earlier ones).

Wow I would bet they don't know that. Weird...

by **Gadgetjq** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 11:55 am

cklinh wrote:I remember there being talks about the first batch of 2004 Gen 2's having different sized brake pads, and then production changed. Anyone know for sure whether that is the case?

I've just checked multiple online brake pad sources and all show the same pads for the entire model year. Normally if there's a mid year change of some sort they'll show different pads applying to a specific serial number change. That isn't the case here so, whatever you may have heard/read it must have been incorrect.

Cheers

by **anwagbo3000** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 12:07 pm

do you guys think autozone sell go ones

by **cklinh** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 12:08 pm

This was the thread, at least what is left of it:

http://solaraguy.com/viewtopic.php?p=233918

by **anwagbo3000** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 12:22 pm

aight, well the verdict is in, i will go back to the site later today and buy brake pads, should have done it, but i figured i could go to autozone and pic some up when my rotors came in.

but, yeah, i will check back later to see if anything changes here about autozone and pads and then make my purchase if online is the way to go....................later

by **anwagbo3000** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 4:37 pm

any help

by **anwagbo3000** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 5:18 pm

someone get back to me

by **Sebas007** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:17 pm

Go online...then when those pads will be used too much...go to autozone.

by **anwagbo3000** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:54 pm

ok, so i have purchased the brakes from the same site and now the i just wait for everything to come in, from there i will be off to my mechanic to put these bad boys in.

sebas thanks for the help, and everyone else from this thread, holla

by **Sebas007** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:39 pm

anwagbo3000 wrote:ok, so i have purchased the brakes from the same site and now the i just wait for everything to come in, from there i will be off to my mechanic to put these bad boys in.

sebas thanks for the help, and everyone else from this thread, holla

I suggest you to assist your mechanic as a viewer of each steps he takes to make the job clean...you'll learn a lot that way !

by **Gadgetjq** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 8:05 am

anwagbo3000 wrote:someone get back to me

About what?

by **PXLpainter** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 10:12 am

cklinh wrote:This is kinda related but kinda not...

I remember there being talks about the first batch of 2004 Gen 2's having different sized brake pads, and then production changed.

Again - totally unrelated as well, but that reminded me of my 2001 Tundra - I had an early model year which had smaller calipers than later in the year and at 15K miles I got a TSB to get a free upgrade to the larger calipers/rotors, etc.

Sooo... to bring this back on topic, if the calipers and rotors don't change size, then the pads will fit any model year. R1 Concepts has several pads to choose from. Then everybody does (including AutoZone) so it doesn't matter - depends on it you want long-life or better performance.

by **gnegroni** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 11:50 am

From you people's experience, what is performance and what is long life?

My car has ~55k miles on it and 2.2 years and pads still look like new... I'd say if I continue driving the way I am they will last me nearly 80-90k.

What is your experience with Toyota and other pads?

by **anwagbo3000** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 3:00 pm

well i already purchased the pads from r1concepts, so i am just waiting for everything to com in, they should all be in by the end of the second week of april

by **anwagbo3000** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 7:08 pm

well, finally installed my R1 concept rotors and brake pads and they feel great, great stopping power, i am glad that i purchased them, not to mention they look good as far as show goes.

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