spiral

Every time I pull to a stop it's like my car has been grannified. It waddles to a stop instead of smoothly braking. Also, the nasty metallic sound of the (Dead?) brakes is terrible. Although they have sounded that way ever since we got the brakes replaced. >_< Help me.

MAXEJA

that sounds like a warped roter, or your pads are not fitted correctly. I have some terribly warped rotters on this saturn i have, when i hit the brakes on the high way it scares everyone the car shakes really rapidly then comes to slow stop bucking a little bit. So if you know the brakes are installed ok then i would have to say it the rotors, get crossed drilled they look phat, or just pay a machine shop like 20 bucks to have them grind it down.

njmaxseltd

iTrader: (19)

Get your rotors resurfaced. Nissan does them on the car for about 80 bucks. Or you can take them off yourself and have a local shop do them for about 30 bucks. I prefer to have them cut on the car. It assures you a perfectly true to the hub surface.
The dead brake? Are you refering to the parking brake? Emergency Brake (e-brake) lever? The ratchet sound when you pull the lever up is normal.

spiral

The normal brakes. @o They scream, basically, ever since we got them redone; I believed that was only reserved for when they were about to not be there, at all. There is a metal pad in them so they scream when the brake needs replacing.

Black97GLEnj

iTrader: (2)

This same thing happened to me a few months ago. The first time I did the brakes I had the rotors resurfaced and I got new pads from Nissan. They started making a horrible grinding noise, so I took it apart again, but everything looked fine. I found out if the rotors are cut too thin, they will warp once they heat up. So I bought new rotors ($60) and everything has been fine since.