FTO AUSTRALIA

yeah I do know what bleeding brakes is, I bleed the brakes on the racecar before every event, I also index the rotors (front only) at the same time. I also do a complete flush at least once a year. I've even made and installed my own brake lines before, and miracle of miracles they didn't leak

I'm not saying you shouldn't do it, in fact it is a good idea to do it when you change your pads regardless as you then know it's been done on a regular basis, but I've never had to bleed the brakes just because I've put new pads in. I've never experienced air in the system due to pushing the pistons back. But agree that's not to say this couldn't happen, or wouldn't vary from car to car.

More importantly as a mechanic I would expect you would never hand a car back to a customer without having done a brake test and a road test, in which case you would quickly identify the need to bleed them anyway.

Shane001 wrote:More importantly as a mechanic I would expect you would never hand a car back to a customer without having done a brake test and a road test, in which case you would quickly identify the need to bleed them anyway.

Mate, way more worse things that I have winessed. When I was in my 2nd year, a fully qualified mechanic had replace a cv joint. He forgot to do the wheel nuts up. Customer was driving in 100km zone, when the wheel came off. You should have seen the mess of the car afterwards. Another time, another full qualified (asian bloke from japan) really nice bloke, was installing a monsoon to a brand new maxima. It had 300 kms on the clock. He was using a heat gun and for some reason decided that at smoko time to sit the gun on the passengers side seat. We all went to smoko and when one of the guys returned half the car was engulfed in flames. Now if we hadn't of seen that as soon as we did the whole place could of gone up in a matter of minutes with all the flammable liquids we had sitting round.

Yeah a key principle to apply to any industry or any work you do is always test and verify. So many people send stuff out the door to save 5 mins only to cost them hours, or worse, in the examples you've listed, potentially someones life...

Could not agree more.

Another reason for brake shudder is a bearing issue and you should also determine if your slides are lubricated.

got some quotes.

Midas will fit new discs and pads to the front for $99 (Labour only)

Pads $66

RDA slotted Rotors $169

opinions?

btw i called like 6 places. this was the cheapest i could come up with

Replace your discs with DBA slotted

I recall getting new front disks for like 50 bucks each.

Yeah u can get a set of fronts from Repco for $88.
Nothing fancy but would do the job.

took advantage of the 20% sale at repco. got bendix pads and dba standard rotors for $135

It's 25% off. Ends today.
That friggin' dayco thermostat cost me $32 after discount. Thought it's a 15 bux thing.

Problem resolved swapped out the front discs and pads today and brakes like a dream

Good stuff

are these it ???

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Mitsubishi-FTO-2 ... 359wt_1098

yip but mat aswell spend extra $30 or so and get slotted ones