Saturday night my Max got a workout on a long section of rural highway, lots of 25mph curves and a few long straight sections. After arriving home the car had an awful burning stinch, I believe it was the brakes. The next morning on my way to the local Wal-Mart I noticed the brakes wouldn't stop for sh*t. Do I need to replace the pads and have the rotors turned? Or will normal driving after afew days return the car to normal? The maxima brakes heat up too quickly can anyone recommend some good pads and replacement rotors?

 

go steal some off a bmw.. no fade and massive stoppin power.

 

Hrmm... sounds like you glazed those rotors. Russ2Kse has aftermarket pads and stillen now offers drilled rotors.

 

yup, sounds like symptoms of glazed rotors. They should be OK after a while.

 

I had the same driving style with the OEM brakes on my integra...8 months after putting in new front brake pads (OEM) and freshly turned OEM rotors, the pads were down to 2mm (0.08") left and the rotors were glazed beyond repair (too thin to be machined any further)

instead of putting in stock stuff, i went with Slotted rotors and Axxis Metal Master pads...after the break-in period of 300km (188miles) of soft stopping, and using the same driving style as before, the integra stops a whole lot better (even in the rain since the grooves channel out the water) and in shorter distances (not bad for a car without ABS)

hopefully this could apply to the maxima and, if so, i'd definitely recommend slotted rotors with some aftermarket brake pads

cheers

 

How wouldn't it stop? Long pedal or no friction?
If long pedal you cooked the fluid - go to higher temp fluid - I raced a lot with Castrol GT LMA.
If no friction the pads are glazed. Normal driving might restore them but probably not. Get a sheet of 80 or so grit sandpaper, put it on a flat surface, pop out the pads and run them oaround the paper in a circular motion to break the glaze. The glazing probably won't happen again as it sounds like this was the first time you got the brakes hot - the stench was the glue baking out of the material - that's also what makes the glaze.

Dave

 

Take the pads off, get some rough sand paper and sand the bottoms of the pads real good, and sand the rotor lightly. This will fix your brakes.