I took my van in for front brake pads after pulling the wheels and determining that the rotors were good. I was expecting to get hustled for new rotors. Instead, the guy told me I needed new calipers at $125 each. I said I used to rebuild them for the price of an ATE rebuild kit; he countered that it would be more for him to rebuild them than to replace them, and that he was using new, not rebuilt, calipers. About $700 later, which included repacking the front wheel bearings and installing new grease seals, I picked up the van and drove about two miles home, noting that the brakes felt a bit mushy which I expected with green pads. Yesterday I made a short freeway run and noticed that the van pulls strongly to the right. Under braking, it pulls even more to the right. It didn't do that prior to having the work done. On moderately hard braking from about 60 mph I could feel a rapid pulsing in the brake pedal which wasn't noticeable at lower speeds. Tomorrow I'm taking it back, and I'm wondering if the list has any ideas as to what they could have done that would cause it to pull to the right so badly? What would cause the high-frequency pulsing? The only other thing they did was to adjust the rear brakes. Bob Trousdale '90 Westy |
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