1st Gen Protege/323/GLC General/Maintenance Discussion for 1990-1994 Models (BG Chassis) and 1981-1989 GLC/323 Models (BD and BF chassis)

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Old June-22nd-2003 | 02:36 AM
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check out my killer brakes <::PIC:::>

well i finaly got around to changing my breaks today
took the wheels off, and my dad looks at the pads, and they were still good, the pads were around 5mm thick still, but i was staburn and i said i want them changed cause they keep sqeeking

so anyway we get to work and... well the picture speaks for it self


if it doesn't work, copy paste this lukasz70.50megs.com/Copy%20(1)%20of%20Picture%207.jpg

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Old June-22nd-2003 | 03:24 AM
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holy ****, you should get your dad to buy you dinner or something. ready to die? haha
Old June-22nd-2003 | 03:32 AM
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none of the pads are actually attached to their metal plates, the pads are all cracked and falling aprrt if not already missing huge chunks out of them, one pad actually have 1/2 the pad missing.


that was some messed up crap, how the hell can pads just crumbe like that,

i guess this is why my ebrake light keeps coming on when i step on it.

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Old June-22nd-2003 | 03:48 AM
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i don't know, maybe it could be me...just maybe, but i think you may have been 5,000 miles over due for a pad change. just as a saftey feature, i'm telling you, they should equip cars with holes in the floor so you can fred flintstone it to work and back... and for added safety measure if you can't get your car to stop sucessfully. dude, i just ran out a set of pads in 4 months because i had sticking calipers... the damn things would GRIND to a halt, always squeeled, never got the brake light going on though... and my pads didn't look NEARLY that bad. good find in changing them
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Old June-22nd-2003 | 04:37 AM
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the thing is the pads were not warn out, its just that they fell apart, literally

they were still pretty thick and they still stoped, although the last few days i noticed a bit crappier braking but they still stopped.

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Old June-22nd-2003 | 04:43 AM
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Perhaps somebody sprayed your brakes with sulfuric acid...
Old June-22nd-2003 | 06:13 AM
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what would cause those holes, by the way? ?? ?
Old June-22nd-2003 | 11:29 AM
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Originally posted by Chastan
what would cause those holes, by the way? ?? ?
Those are "speed holes", obviously. Make your car faster.
Old June-22nd-2003 | 12:57 PM
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Originally posted by Chastan
what would cause those holes, by the way? ?? ?
the brake pads came with the holes
those were rivets that held the pad to the metal part

the funny thing is, when you look at the picture again, you can see that the part thats attacked to the rivets stayed on, but the pad broke off that.
Old June-25th-2003 | 03:36 AM
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Uhh, rivets that hold the pad to the plate? I don't think so...


Here are mine:


I don't see any rivets!
Old June-25th-2003 | 03:58 AM
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Originally posted by Chastan
Uhh, rivets that hold the pad to the plate? I don't think so...


Here are mine:


I don't see any rivets!
oh wait, i was making it up, now i remember, i drilled those holes myself


im pretty sure differenet manufacturers make brakes differently, and those were probably really cheap pads

my new ones are like the picture you poseted, all one smooth piece
Old June-25th-2003 | 04:03 AM
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Cool

nah I didn't mean that you were making it up. Just that it SHOULDN'T be that way. at least in my opinion....

Thank goodness your new ones aren't that way.
Old June-25th-2003 | 04:09 AM
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Originally posted by Chastan
nah I didn't mean that you were making it up. Just that it SHOULDN'T be that way. at least in my opinion....

Thank goodness your new ones aren't that way.
i know, i was joking around, plus im really drunk right now (prom party) and i just came home

jesus, what time is it at your place, its 5am here

btw, i was doing some harder braking today, trying to loose a friend, and man do my new brakes SMELL, the people in the other cars were telling me something broke in the car cause of the smell, (they were a few cars lengths behind me) after inspecting, they said it was my engine, but i corrected them, the funny thing is i took a hyundai 99 sonata and a new pro tonight, they couldn/t keep up wiht the my pro lol, but they were auto,
anyway im rambling on, gotta goto sleep

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Old June-25th-2003 | 04:17 AM
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lol it's past 2am. I 'm on the west coast. go to bed. hey you're underage! No drinking . Yeah new brakes smell too.
Old June-25th-2003 | 10:29 AM
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Originally posted by Chastan
lol it's past 2am. I 'm on the west coast. go to bed. hey you're underage! No drinking . Yeah new brakes smell too.
underage? it wasn't even my prom, had mine last year, so me and my friend were the only ones that drank legaly
but stupid *** hotels are gay, make it so hard to have parties

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