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Just as the topic says. This weekend I did my front brakes and upgraded to Performance Friction pads, not that I need them, but lifetime warrenty is what I was after. Anyway, brakes on this car are simple so it didn't take too long. I didn't get the rotors turned cuz there was very minimal wear or scoring, everything seemed even ( I know "seemed" isn't a good mechanical test). The rotors were new at the last pad change.
After putting the new pads all seemed fine around the city. Today on the way to work I got on the freeway and like clockwork when I get to 60 MPH I feel a vibration in the steering wheel, and if I just rest my hand on the wheel it's clear there is a bit of a shimmy there. If I back down to say 55 there is no shimmy. And it is only very slight, not anything like a front end part failing.
This never happened with the old pads on there. I dont feel any pulsing in the pedel at all when I give it light or heavy brake. So I dont think the rotors are warped.
Any ideas? The fact none of this was happening before the brakes were done was another reason I never got the rotors cut, had they been showing signs of warp before I would have just bought new rotors. Do I maybe just have to wait a few hundred miles for the pads to bed in a bit?
After putting the new pads all seemed fine around the city. Today on the way to work I got on the freeway and like clockwork when I get to 60 MPH I feel a vibration in the steering wheel, and if I just rest my hand on the wheel it's clear there is a bit of a shimmy there. If I back down to say 55 there is no shimmy. And it is only very slight, not anything like a front end part failing.
This never happened with the old pads on there. I dont feel any pulsing in the pedel at all when I give it light or heavy brake. So I dont think the rotors are warped.
Any ideas? The fact none of this was happening before the brakes were done was another reason I never got the rotors cut, had they been showing signs of warp before I would have just bought new rotors. Do I maybe just have to wait a few hundred miles for the pads to bed in a bit?