I know you guys have discussed this in other threads, but I didn't find any information that applies to my situation. I think I have brake judder. The problem started at 22K miles, but that's also about the time I started moding my car. After driving hard for a little bit, the brakes start making a grunching (half grinding, half crunching) noise. There's no real vibration of the steering wheel, but some vibration with the front end of the car.
My biggest problem is, I have after-market 18" wheels and low-profile tires. The dealer will probably give me crap about it, since I already went in for the A/T slippage TSB and they said there was nothing wrong, that I had read something on the internet and assumed my car was affected. Funny, since after they checked it out, the problem went away (can they perform the TCM swap in 8 hours? cause that's how long they had my car).

Tanman
2000 Maxima SE Black Automatic
18" wheels and tires, no other external mods

 

I get that half grinding, half crunching noise too. It happens after a couple of hard stops. I may take my car in to get that looked at soon.

 

I've been considering getting a brake kit from GR Racing to fix this problem, and to improve braking power. But it's almost $600 with shipping. If this TSB applies to me, I'll just get new brake pads. Hopefully the dealer will honor the TSB even though I have the bigger wheels.

 

Ack, no one's replying to my post! What I really want to know is, has anyone had any problems getting their brake rotors fixed\replaced if they have aftermarket or plus-sized wheels?

 

I don't think anyone has had this unique issue ... give it a try .. u have nothing 2 lose .. btw .. where r u?

 

I'm in Houston, TX. I want to get it checked out, but the problem is that I went to the dealer for another TSB and they said there was no problem. So if I go there for every TSB I think applies to me, they're not going to be very friendly. And i'm worried that if I bring this brake judder issue to their attention, they'll just blame it on the big wheels and not give quality service in the future.
I could go to another dealer, but this one is supposed to be one of the better ones in town and they're very close to where I work.

Tanman
2000 Maxima SE TSB magnet

 

Buddy you have the Brake Judder problem. I picked up my Max used with 27,000 miles on it. I noticed at high speed with heavy brake pressure it felt like I didn't have any brake pads installed. It was the "grunching" effect. One time, I had someone pull out in front of me and when I slammed on the brakes I thought the whole front of the car was going to come apart. It made me nervous to drive my car. I got the TSB from PI0NEER and took it to a Nissan service center. Afterwards it was perfect. I can get on the brakes really hard now, no grinding no crunching, no judder. Check my website for the TSB.

 

Your dealer should not cause you any troubles for adding aftermarket wheels/tires alone. But he could claim the shop that mounted the wheels overtorqued the lugs. You may want to loosen and re-torque them yourself before taking it in.

This is the #1 cause of rotor warping... overtorqueing and/or imbalance torquing the lugs with impact wrenches. Always insist they torque by hand using a torque wrench, and watch them while they do it just to make sure!