Old Sep 2, 2003 | 08:45 PM
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I would not use aftermarket brakes at all, Honda pads are soft so they don't warp rotors. If you are under warrenty go warp the rotors on purpose and take it in again. Try a bunch of high speed pedal buryin's. Then when they are red hot, get a hose and spary cool water on them. They will warp hella bad. Then go complain. Make sure they use an on the car lathe, factory pads and torque you wheels correctly(with a torque wrench, not a torque stick). Doing an on the car refinish doesn't take as much off as you think. Plus honda's on car lathe doesn't take much off anyways. Old ammco bench lathes will take off like ten thousands at a time if you let it. The honda one will do about half of that. any more than 1 or 2 thousands is overkill. You want to cut a little and real slow to make a nice noise free cut. I think that cheaper materials and harder pads are causing these problems. I don't know if you noticed but company's are trying to sell new cars under the low maintance factor nowdays and making pads harder means they last longer. But now they eat rotors harder than before. Honda has changed to different pads on the oddessy and the newr accords once already.
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