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Originally Posted by Mark DiSilvestro
Were your brakes as bad as the ones on my friend's '99 Cirrus? His are very mushy. Even with antilock, new pads and his rear shoes adjusted as tight as possible, they went from horrible to barely tolerable and still feel worse than the 4-wheel drums on my '60 Fintail!
Congrats on the Lexus.
Happy Motoring, Mark
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Those things had horrible brakes. Not so much in stopping power, but I couldn't keep front brake rotors on it for more than about 20k miles. I took it back to the dealer with about 15k miles, complaining of serious pulsing in the brake pedal. They put it on the rack and checked it out, and claimed the warp was within specs and wouldn't do anything about it. I told them to take it out on the freeway, get up to about 70mph, and hit the brakes, and see how the steering wheel about rips loose from your hands! Nope, wouldn't do anything with it. Oh, and then I was informed the brakes were only covered by warrenty up to something like 7k or 8k miles anyway, never mind the car already had 5k miles on it when we bought it as "new".
I ended up just putting new rotors and pads on it every 25k miles or so. I heard that about '98 or '99 Chrysler went to thicker front brake rotors. Go figure. But sounds like it went from one issue, to another from what you're talking about.
And the list of prob's we had with that POS goes on and on. We finally dumped it 3 years ago, traded for a very dependable '92 Subaru Loyale that had 135k miles on it. Still driving that thing, now has 160k miles, and it just keeps going!