Brakes

[madsav]

driving around today and BAMM i hear a scraping sound think its brakes but cannot be to sure. anyways thinking if it is brakes and rotors might head for an upgrade, due to low income would anyone say the supercheap auto slotted rotors are worth getting? or a waste of money?

[Pub247]

yeah i say your pads are all but gone and if you keep driving around like that and they will be gone superdodgey do slotted bot sure what they want for them dont forget new pads aswell

[1trkmnd]

slotted will give you better performance, but they will also increase the wear on ya pads..not sure by how much exactly but you do notice it..

[Tom_1569]

Personally id be going a quality standard rotor over a cheap slotted.
Atleast the quality one will last, and it will still pull up as good or better then the factory brakes.

[Morton]

Grab a good regular rotor, and spend the money you save on some good pads. (and dear god, buy anything but Silverline or Bendix)

[1trkmnd]

are the slotted rotors at supercheap DBA....they seem to have a good name..

[madsav]

no worries thanx guys,
new question would be when driving forward, then i wing the wheel left,right,left,right etc etc i have a loud KNOCK sound from the front of the car ,what in the world could it be, ball joint?steering rack? tye rode end?

[Morton]

Probably a swaybar link pin. They break all the time, the factory ones. Check all the rubbers on them

[stocky]

oh man, morton, i shouldve showed you the link pin i pulled out of the VR. it was horribly bent. this caused a clunking noise when i turned right. put new link pins in and all better now

[madsav]

at the momment i have a set of nolethane ones on the car , they have been on there for maybe 2-3 years would they have really bent already? they are the shorter version to the ones that were on the car was told they are an upgrade or somthing

[centy]

i was told the shorter ones had to go down to the arm not up like the originals.
I had nolothanes split and spit after a couple months so check them anyway.

[madsav]

will do first thing when i wake up cheers

[stocky]

i was told the shorter ones had to go down to the arm not up like the originals.
I had nolothanes split and spit after a couple months so check them anyway.

sounds like they were done up too tight. the control arm ones are a different kit if i remember

[Not_An_Abba_Fan]

I can do you a good price on RDA slotted if you want.

[madsav]

after getting closer to the car with afew spanners etc,i find the power steering rack was screwed (so called reco bullsh*t) then i find the grinding sound , it was ....the tin cover behind the brake rotor somehow was crushed on top of the rotor causeing a grindind sound no idea how lol but 2morrow ill spend the day fixing it , and thanx for the info and advice guys