Ready Brake Install Failure = 2K in Costs and Counting!
So, I am paying a steep price for allowing a small local RV shop install the pull cables on my 14 Jeep Cherokee.
After my Brake Buddy's compressor failed, I looked an alternative braking system, and after research here, decided to get the NSA Ready Brake. Figured the lack of electronic, and a simplified mechanical mechanism, It would avert any possible failures.
Boy was I wrong. I had my local RV shop install the jeeps 2 cables, the primary brake and the brakeaway which run from the bumper and attaches to the actual brake peddle.
It took them 2 days, which was suspect, and I must say it worked fine on our way to New England last week. However on the way back home, my TPS started screaming indicating the Jeeps tire temps were over limit. I stopped to smoking brakes, and hub temps over 450 degrees.
It appears the cables kinked in the firewall and caused the pedal to depress.
So today the Jeep was towed to the dealer in PA, and so far the estimate is 2K for new calipers, rotors, pads, a broken brake pedal switch (the pedal goes to the floor and locks down in place). Hopefully it won't be much more.
At least the dealer is responsive and gave me a loaner vehicle as we are not at home, and in-route.
So I am back to the brake system search....I am dumping this Ready Brake, not because it is a bad system, but I don't want to chance another botched install of the cables.
I will probably look at getting my Brake Buddy rebuilt and go back to that system as it never failed me in 5 years.
My local shop is a small operation, 2 guys...and there is no recourse there as they probably don't have 2 nickles to rub together....so I will pay the price of learning not to use them again.
Thanks for letting me vent, and hope everyone is traveling happy, safe and for a lot less than I am spending this week :)
After my Brake Buddy's compressor failed, I looked an alternative braking system, and after research here, decided to get the NSA Ready Brake. Figured the lack of electronic, and a simplified mechanical mechanism, It would avert any possible failures.
Boy was I wrong. I had my local RV shop install the jeeps 2 cables, the primary brake and the brakeaway which run from the bumper and attaches to the actual brake peddle.
It took them 2 days, which was suspect, and I must say it worked fine on our way to New England last week. However on the way back home, my TPS started screaming indicating the Jeeps tire temps were over limit. I stopped to smoking brakes, and hub temps over 450 degrees.
It appears the cables kinked in the firewall and caused the pedal to depress.
So today the Jeep was towed to the dealer in PA, and so far the estimate is 2K for new calipers, rotors, pads, a broken brake pedal switch (the pedal goes to the floor and locks down in place). Hopefully it won't be much more.
At least the dealer is responsive and gave me a loaner vehicle as we are not at home, and in-route.
So I am back to the brake system search....I am dumping this Ready Brake, not because it is a bad system, but I don't want to chance another botched install of the cables.
I will probably look at getting my Brake Buddy rebuilt and go back to that system as it never failed me in 5 years.
My local shop is a small operation, 2 guys...and there is no recourse there as they probably don't have 2 nickles to rub together....so I will pay the price of learning not to use them again.
Thanks for letting me vent, and hope everyone is traveling happy, safe and for a lot less than I am spending this week :)
