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Originally Posted by Chuck33079
Glad to hear its better so far. Hope it holds up. I don't think anything was changed mid year. Just throwing it out there, but maybe yours were FUBAR from day one and this is what it should have felt like? It'll be interesting to see what you find when you look at the others on the lot.
What exactly did they change out?
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Rotors and pads. To me, it looks like the swept surface of the rotors have little ridges in them (normal, not a defect), and I don't remember them being like that when my car was new (I detailed the rims with Rejex first thing, and I know I looked at those 14" rotors!)
Also, my new rotors have black paint EVERYWHERE on them EXCEPT the swept area. That's new, too. My rear rotors don't seem to have that, and I recall the "vanes" in the edges of my old rotors being rusty.
Maybe I'm just not remembering because I wasn't so stressed over the darn things when I bought the car and now I'm going over minutia, but those aspects seem different. I have about 300 miles on the car, including what the dealer put on it, and so far, so good, and those ridges are still there on the rotor. Pretty sure it looked like glass when I bought the car. I think it's there to help it break in right, so I'm trying to go super super easy on them. Most of the time when I get home, I can literally grab the rotor and hold it right after stepping out of the car. I'm going to keep driving it like a grandma until those ridges wear out and it looks like glass, then I will drive it like a normal sports car like I did previously.
My regional Nissan rep called today. I told him I had neglected to follow up with either him or the dealership at this point, because I wanted to put a few weeks of miles on the car before jumping to some conclusion about it. He felt that was wise, and will call me back Monday next week. They are deciding whether or not to reimburse me for my money paid fixing this. I think they are going to, and I think they should. You should not have to go through 3 sets of rotors/pads having only gone through 1.25 sets of ultra high performance compound tires, never having tracked the car.