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Shitty GU brakes
Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 12:49 pm
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 ????
Re: Shitty GU brakes
Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 12:55 pm
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?
Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 4:56 pm
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.
Roly
Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 12:22 am
by Robbo
I agree I think factory pads were stacks better, bendix seem to last forever but braking is crap!!
Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 12:03 pm
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
Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 12:41 pm
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..
Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 3:10 pm
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
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 11:45 am
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
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 11:48 am
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
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 11:51 am
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.
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 1:00 pm
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?
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 3:07 pm
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