Locked em' up the other day.

[SASHO91]

i was driving the other day and a car pulled out in front of me. i was doing about 50 and i had to lock them up. after that it felt like my tires had a bump in them. and then when im on the highway they shake a little too. but when i come to a stop is were you can reaaly feel it. any suggestions on what that is? thanks guys.

 

[yamahaSHO]

Have you taken out your ABS?

 

[SASHO91]

no but if it matters i have upgraded the brakes to a better rotor and ceramic pads. just fyi.

 

[yamahaSHO]

That doesn't matter... You should not have been able to lock them up. If you did lock them up, you may very well have a visable flat spot. I've done that with my Camry; needed new tires to fix the problem.

 

[91taurisho]

but if you did not "lock them up", you may have warped a rotor or lost a balncing weight on your tire. Take your car in and have the tires balanced(that may be the cause). Have them look for flat spots on your tires too.

 

[yamahaSHO]

If the tires were locked up, I'd be more inclined to say it is flat spots on the tires. They are pretty visable.. I actually locked my Camry up for about 50-60ft and had smoke pouring in the windows. I actually wore the old tires down to the threads and belts. Unless you got the brakes really hot before any lock up, the rotors really are not going to warp. Weights area possiblity... But not so much when slowing down. Most likely the fronts lock up and they will get the wear; you'll feel in in hard braking, that's for sure. You'll normally feel the effects of an unbalanced tire when you are at speed.

 

[91 SHOplus]

That doesn't matter... You should not have been able to lock them up.

Would a bad ABS sensor cause it to act like that? Is your ABS light on?

 

[yamahaSHO]

That is a good possibility... Good call.

You might want to clean the sensor and the timing "teeth" that it uses to deteremine when it locks up. It could very well be dirty or just straight up failed.

 

[AutoSHO]

You can even out the flat spots in the tires by doing a nice, long burnout. However, I would recommend a Quaife before attempting said burnout.

 

[91taurisho]

What like My "Flat spot fixer" burnout on the canyon run?

 

[SHOslyter485]

What like My "Flat spot fixer" burnout on the canyon run?

That was pretty awesome... No wonder you go through so many tranny's

 

[91taurisho]

That was pretty awesome... No wonder you go through so many tranny's

That's the best burnout I've ever done in the sho. I don't really do burnouts any more. I don't want to throw my dif pin... AGAIN!!!!

 

[SHOslyter485]

Can we say Quaife?

 

[91taurisho]

I'm trying to find one at the moment. I'm waiting for 1 person to get back to me with a price. I've got another guy waiting on me to get back to him. And I'm waiting to see the price from the first guy so I can see who's cheaper.

 

[yamahaSHO]

Quaifes are over rated

 

[91taurisho]

Quaifes are over rated

well then, trade me your's for my stock tranny!

 

[Ferendon]

LoL nothing like a $1300 LSD to fix the flat spot on the $50 tire....
Wish my wife would fall for that one...