What’s Stopping You?

Need to do a brake job on my 2016 and will be doing the work myself.

Since I’m new to the Tundra, curious if y’all have any recommendations or issues with brands / models of rotors & pads.

 

I see what you did there. This topic will be a point of friction. It could get heated.

 

I did the fronts on mine, rotors were warped. I went with cryo rotors and yellow stuff pads. Easy job. Did same on a 21 RAV4. They stop great but create quite a bit of dust. Rims get dirty quick. Wife’s camry I did a power stop kit, all rotors and pads. Pretty happy with the kit and performance so far.

 

I use the stock stuff. It’s fine.

 

Thanks gents!

 

I hear shims mentioned, can anyone elaborate on that?

 

I did my rear brakes a month or so ago, also did the work myself. I used Advics rotors and pads, which I understand to be the OEM brand. I found them to be a very easy job, the most annoying part was adjusting the parking brake to seat right afterwards. I also noticed that for some reason, the back of the rotor has a lip on it that protrudes back far enough that it contacts part of the fixed framework that the calipers mount to…not the heat/dust shield, but some kind of guard in between that and the rotor. Previous wear on that part suggests my former rotors did the same thing. Apparently I’m not the only one who has experienced this because I found posts about it online. I am not too worried about it because it does not seem to impact brake function, and eventually they’ll stop grinding together.

 

If you're resurfacing your rotors ensure you have a good place that can turn them for you, otherwise you'll be looking for a while, like in my case, will probably have to travel 50 miles, because brake shops either don't have the machine, or is too small for the rotor to be completely turned.... I went Cryo treated slotted rotors.

 

I am not a fan of resurfacing rotors. In my experience once they start taking material off them, they tend to warp more easily. Given how cheap they are, relative to doing the job again in 10k miles, I find it better to just replace them.

 

Not a fan of resurfacing either, I usually pad slap them and move on, but I have a rear rotor that was scratched up by sticking caliper so I went back to 1 OEM rotor all others are slotted cryo-treated. LOL.. These wont be back in stock until December, crazy.

 

My front rotors were resurfaced at 50k and new pads. 20k later, still good.

 

I've used Detroit Axle and PowerStop. No issues.