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Shitty GU brakes

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Shitty GU brakes

Post by MYV84B »

Hey everyone

Have a brand new GU and the brakes arnt that great

especialyy reversing down steep driveways

anyone had this problem ???

any fixes ????
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Re: Shitty GU brakes

Post by bogged »

MYV84B wrote:Hey everyone

Have a brand new GU and the brakes arnt that great

especialyy reversing down steep driveways

anyone had this problem ???

any fixes ????


How new? Are the brakes bed in yet?
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Post by roly »

i just drive my brand new ute and the brakes are great.

my 4 year old wagon was iffy, didnt realise how bad they were till driving the new one

i replaced the pads on my wagon with bendix 4wd pads and they were crap compared to the factory pads.

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Post by Robbo »

I agree I think factory pads were stacks better, bendix seem to last forever but braking is crap!! :x
if you want it done properly do it yourself
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Post by MYV84B »

1500kms i let em bed in

Reverse down a steep hill and they are crap struggles pull up

not so bad goen forward

Try reverisng down a steep driveway and pull up
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Post by bogged »

MYV84B wrote:Reverse down a steep hill and they are crap struggles pull up


I know that feeling well... Had a vacuum leak in mine.
I've had all my brakes done at Brakes+ cause was out of pads.

Grab the head spanner man from your nissan dealer and take him for a drive, show him exactly what you mean..
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Post by MYV84B »

Yeah i wasnt happy if i had a trailer on id be in trouble

thanks mate

im of to winge to the nissan dealer again
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Post by MYV84B »

Winged to my dealer they took it for a day and came back to me

Sayen they were fine

Im not happy but i dont have any thing to go on

Rolly how are ur brakes in reverse downhills ???

Bogged can explain further ur problem with the vacum

any1 else have any ideas
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Post by X-R-Cist »

my driveway is downhill and when i come towards the end i tend to break. I dont have any problems with breaking. feels the same as going forward. i will try again tonight and let you know if i spot anything
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Post by bogged »

MYV84B wrote:Bogged can explain further ur problem with the vacum

being auto it uses vaccum on the brakes.

I would go to a brakes place and get them to do a safety check on it..

Then goto Nissan dealer and WITH the head spanner man, take a NEW one for a drive - say to him, you would like to see for yourself how the brakes are on others of the same model.
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Post by mkpatrol »

How many times do you press your brake pedal when you are going down hills bacwards. If it is a deisel then the vacuum pump wont be able to keep up with the demand if you pump the brakes too many times. What may be happening is you are running out of vaccum.
It happens to me on my GQ if I have to reverse down a steep tricky hill with lots of brake applications & it wont recover until it idles for a minute or so.

Does the pedal do really hard when it doesnt work?
Don't ask me, ask them. I'm just runnin for my life myself.
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Post by MYV84B »

Nah just let the truck roll backwards down a fairly steep driveway

Say 4m then stand on them and it takes almost the same distance to stop it

ps im not doing this at high speed

as i said to my mate if you were putting aboat in at the ramp and did this

Expensive exercise
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