Shitty front brakes
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Shitty front brakes
Hey guys, just wondering if anyone has any suggestions? Ater 5 thou on my road king I noticed a increasing surge while using the front brakes. At the service dealer told me my rotors were worped and replaced them. 5 thou more and the new rotors are the same. Next service told the dealer again and was told they won,t replace because its just normal for the harley brakes to surge due to worped rotors. Come time I need to replace, any suggestions for different front brake system?
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RE: ****ty front brakes
9K, no warping...this is crap the dealer is handing you. Did they replace the pads, or only the rotor? When you replaced the rotor did they replace with stock or with an upgraded floating style rotor?
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RE: ****ty front brakes
Still under warranty? Go to the HD hotline, whatever it's called, and tell them. Rotors don't warp without a cause. It can be either a material defect, an assembly problem, or even the rider causing the problem. Hard part is finding out which.
RE: ****ty front brakes
ive got 8 thou in this bike, had over 10 thou on the last one and never had a rotor warp. both of those bike did have the floating rotors i dont know if that has anything to do with it. i would do as skip says and call the moco and complain, you might get some satisfaction
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RE: ****ty front brakes
There's no way rotor warping can be "normal", I'd demand they change them out as often as it takes until they get it right!
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RE: ****ty front brakes
I had 63,000 on my 92 Softail and had no warping brakes at all. My 04 Ultra has had no brake problems except a little squeel from the back rotor, but I am going to replace all the rotors and pads with floating rotors this winter when I get the wheels chromed. You might want to look into a set of floating rotors. They don't squeel and I have never heard of on warping.
Good luck.
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Good luck.
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my 07 Ultra has 30K on stock rotors and no warpage or brake surge.
my 08 roadglide has 15K floating H-D rotors and very serious surge. I also get a clank when first applying the brakes. I believe I have a bad caliper on the 08 with one (or more) piston/s not fully retracting. hence the worped rotor/s and clank. although under warranty, the rotors were installed after purchase and are out of the general BS added component warranty. trying to decide if I need to take it in under warranty about the clank, or on my own determine which rotor is worped and replace my self.
my 08 roadglide has 15K floating H-D rotors and very serious surge. I also get a clank when first applying the brakes. I believe I have a bad caliper on the 08 with one (or more) piston/s not fully retracting. hence the worped rotor/s and clank. although under warranty, the rotors were installed after purchase and are out of the general BS added component warranty. trying to decide if I need to take it in under warranty about the clank, or on my own determine which rotor is worped and replace my self.