America, I had to change my front brakes last week because I had a TERRIBLE grinding noise coming from the passenger side. I thought I would hear some sort of squeak coming from a "wear indicator" or something. But nada! Some when I pulled off the pads from that side they were down to the actual pad and grinding metal on metal against the rotor. Needless to say, I need to replace the rotor now. But I'll do that next weekend. For now I have good brand new brake pads. I got the ceramics from Advance Auto. They're flippin' sweet!

 

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sweet now you have to get new pads again with your rotors lol what happened too cheap to get the rotors and put them on at the same time?

 

If your rotors were bad, youv'e already started ruining your new pads my friend...

WheelBrokerAng

 

Ouch, harsh way to say it. But ...um... he's kinda right.

 

Well MaiMai, have you ever tried changing the rotors on a '97 accord? And yes you're technically right BrokerAng, but it will take lots of miles to ruin the new pads and I plan to change the rotors this weekend. And new brakes are better than no brakes at all.

 

Brakes are a lot cheaper than No Brakes...

 

brakes are a pain cause you have to get a slide hammer to get the hub off and everything. But for next time just do it all at the same time. less work for yourself. and i would go back and exchange those brake pads for new ones or else you will mess up your new rotors even though its only been a week.