hey guys, im new to this forum and ive had my lancer for about a year now, and I brake hard, so therefore im wearing my brakepads out real quick, its been about 9000 miles and i need new brakes, so i went to the dealership and I found out there goin to charge me up the yingyang for new brakes and a new rotor, so can anyone tell me how to do the brakes myself? appreciate the feedback, thanks

 

man you need new brakes already, I just hit 29,000 miles today, and I just got the car inspected 2 days ago, and my brakes were still a 6. and I drive pretty had.....what the hell are you dong to that poor thing

 

i know its dumb but i used to race my car a lot, so therefore a lot of hard braking, thats how it go so worn out

 

OK, if you race alot, that will do it...I use to chew through breaks on my old Race car until I switched to brembos

 

go to www.roadracemotorsports.com and check out there brakes and rotors. They are a lot better than stock so for someone like you it would work great. They are good on install prices too. Try giving them a call. They know our cars the best. And a word of advice. TRY DOWN SHIFTING!!!

 

also, if anyone has a how to install your own brakes site or a site that shows how to install brakes, that also would be appreciated, thanks guys

 

i've had my car for about 2 years now. Im on about 45,000 and i've been through 2 sets of pads, and my rotors resurfaced 2 times.. and i do my own install.. and recently my brakes started to Chirp while drive and squeek while braking and Crunch while stopping.. Took it to "Brake Master" and they told me its normal and the squeaking is from medal pads rubbing against the medal rotor surface.. so now i guess im stuck with the squeaking. unless there is a solution.. is there?

 

well first of all, the squeaking is normal so don't worry about it. I think there's a special spray you can put on your rotors that help lubricate so the noise can diminish. Buy it at a auto zone or rs strauss.. etc.

As for the guy who said that he has 29000 miles on his car?...
I couldn't help notice that it says you are from PA. So i'm guessing you put alot of highway miles. so you don't really brake much.
Wow as for me, i live in the city, so braking is all i do. I've changed my brakes twice. Don't go to the dealership, they'll charge you an arm and a leg. if anything get performance brakes which'll last you longer and have it done at a local mitsu expert shop.. for a whole lot cheaper.

 

wow 9000 miles and u need it changed?? i would understand new brakes, but you need new rotors too? i went to mitsu to get it changed and guess how much they charged me... 200 mother effin dollars.. just for the ***kin brakes.. so i suggest you use that 200 to buy yourself new pads and rotors from RRM and just have it installed at meineke or something. about the squeaking, no its not normal and shouldnt be doing that.. someone else here posted a thread about their brakes too and squeaking is a sign of your brake pads running thin. the more you prolong that squeaking, the more likely it is for you to warp your rotors.

 

go to www.roadracemotorsports.com

 

so ok, from reading all of this, this is the denomination and the best way to go about all of this...
step 1. http://www.roadracemotorsports.com
step 2. meineke
step 3. enjoy

that is by far THE BEST, and no, i'm not trying to sound like a *****... but dude, seriously... if you don't take this path, you're a moron...

i'm gonna be ordering my breaks and rotors from rrm, cuz they're damn good, and i'm def. going to meineke

laturz

 

Has anyone put a thread on brakes in the how-to section yet? I'd be happy to do so, but I haven't actually changed my rotors yet. Just the pads, which is a snap I might add. 14mm socket, 17mm socket, and a crow bar (to compress the caliper. PM me if you want to know how this works SAFELY) and that's it!

 

i dont' think they have...
i'll let u know... hehe, unless you already found out

 

Someone wrote it up, but I didn't wanna sticky it unless soeone too pics. Too risky if someone ****s up their brakes and drives into a tree. Will gladly sticky it as a how to if someone takes pics. I'll prolly make one, but not until I put my Wilwoods on...which isn't going to be soon because the stock rubber brake lines are a ***** to remove on my car and it's getting cold out. (I don't have snow tires for my 17's and Paradas are not a winter option).

Brakes are easy, but I'm not going to get too into detail here. Simple steps:

1. take of the wheel

2. look around back and unbolt the caliper from the caliper bracket (2 bolts)

3. pop the pads out of the caliper

4. insert new pads

5. figure out how to get the caliper back around the rotor with a full thickness pad on it.

6. bolt that ***** back on.

It's literally a total of unbolting an rebolting 6 things...and that includes taking your wheel off. 12 things when you're doing both sides (which you should always do simultaneously)

 

well hobie, i'm going to be doing some changing on my breaks, i'll take pix, and let u know so u can sticky it along with the pictures, groovy?