Upgrading Brakes Question

deltabravo wrote:

bogie514 wrote:
I have to replace the brakes on my 2017 Sierra 1500, Crew Cab, Standard Bed.

Disc brakes at all 4 corners on GM trucks last FOREVER it seems... like 75k miles plus. I had a 2006 2500 HD that I ran up to 115k miles, brakes were well over 50%.

My 3500HD has about 64k miles and still has over 75% life left.

Seems odd that your 2017 has eaten the brakes already.

EBC makes good brakes too.

So it seems, I've never had many issues with quite a few GM trucks. But how it's driven has a lot to do with it. My wife with her leadfoot can destroy brakes in short order.

That said my 2016 GMC 2500 is a different animal. I would get a typical warped rotor type shutter, and it was from day one. It would only happen at the bottom of a hill or grade when towing. It mattered not if the grade/hill was 5 miles, 2 miles, or 500 feet. It never would do it on the flat no matter how hard you worked the brakes. I could drive it on the flat riding the brake for a mile until I could smell brakes, and it would not shutter at all. It had to be on a downhill. Even if you never hit the brake once while coming down riding the tranny all the way, then applied brake at the bottom, there was the shake and shimmy.

I had it back under warranty 4 times in the first 10K miles to a dealer where the head mechanic is a smart cookie, have known him for 20 years. He had not seen another do it. They had the zone rep there twice. The front suspension was checked all 4 times. Twice they installed new front OEM pads and turned rotors, twice new pads and new GM rotors.

@ 12000 miles I was seriously considering going down the LL road, or dumping the truck. I replaced the front rotors and pads with the Z36 Powerstop kit. Problem solved and now @ 63,000.

I for one am sold on Powerstop stuff. When and if I need rear's that's what is going on.