Ok here it is. I have a 04 sunfire and my driver side pads ware out before my passenger side. I replaced my rotors and pads in 06 with oem replacements and in 07 I upgraded to the ebc green stuff and drilled brembo rotors. I just thow on a set of cheap pads for now to stop the grinding but I think the problem is the caliper keeps sticking. I was woundering what are some cheap but good calipers i could put on there. I want to put some steel brake lines on the front. Any help would be great.

How many miles on a set of pads? If one side goes before the other you may have a problem, depending on how much quicker the one side goes. I would say that probably 80% of teh J's I have done brakes on took out the driver side just a little before the passenger side.

kyle jarmusch wrote: cheap but good

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kyle jarmusch wrote: cheap but good

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Never came across this problem. Maybe its cause I usually change the calipers when I do my brakes lol.



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so u bought 3 different sets of calipers and pads. and never thought it could be the calipers til' now? wtf?



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No I havent changed my calipers at all.The car only has 60,000 miles and i did my first brake job around 25,000 miles

The calipers aren't the problem, the slider pins are. They don't get cleaned and serviced properly, especially the bushings.

Find calipers with 2-piece slider pins and your pads will last at least twice as long.

Thankfully it's not a problem I have to deal with anymore!




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I agree there isn't such a thing as cheap and good. However after the core charge new calipers for our cars are 15 bucks really it is worth it and when my car goes up on blocks for the suspension overhaul new calipers are going on as well.


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You give calipers the benefit of the doubt ONCE. If it happens again you replace them.

Hell on these cars you can get reman calipers, decent ones too, for $20 if you know where to shop. I've replaced mine 3 times now just because I was doing the brakes LOL.



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BlownBlackZ wrote:The calipers aren't the problem, the slider pins are. They don't get cleaned and serviced properly, especially the bushings.

Find calipers with 2-piece slider pins and your pads will last at least twice as long.

Pull the pins and sleeves out, clean them and grease the with silicone grease. I do this every time I change the pads and/or rotors. I still use the original calipers and sliders in my '96 with 260K miles. The rubber O-rings are still intact too. The silicone won't harm the rubber O-rings. The rubber boots around the pistons are starting to show their age, I'll probably repace the calipers with the next brake job. I'm sure the bores have wear, but they haven't hung up yet, nor do they leak.

Mine have 100k on them and aren't bad but I abused the hell out of my beloved car so now I am babying it and giving it new parts plus I am going to paint these new ones.


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i was thinkin' the same thing


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thanks for the info


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