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Originally Posted by ricnor
or do they not go wrong?, if they do go wrong are they rebuildable?
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EVERY part on a vehicle can become defective. EVERY part can be rebuilt or replaced.
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Originally Posted by ricnor
I fitted special disc's to the front a few years ago which don't really seem to have helped but I thought it would be something to try, they are obviously vented but also drilled and grooved.
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Parts stores love to sell drilled/grooved/slotted rotors. USUALLY they're the same junk Communist Chinese rotors sold in the "discount" line, but someone threw them on a mill, and then stuffed them into a fancy box; the resulting profit-margin enhancement can be substantial.
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Originally Posted by ricnor
Are there any brake pads I should look out for?
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Originally Posted by j cAT
with my 2000 silverado replacing the rotors ALL and the brake pads the pedal effort is much less to slow the vehicle down.
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First Guess: Less a matter of the rotors, and more a matter of fresh/better pads.
Discount pads tend to wear rapidly. I paid for "premium ceramic" pads once; couldn't wait to get rid of them. Didn't stop well at all. Wore like iron, I was stuck with them for a decade.
There's a hundred pad formulations; every brand claims to be "the best". Good luck, I don't have a solid answer except to say that I'm satisfied with plain ol' semi-metallic from the moderate-upper end of the price spectrum.
Don't know about your K2500, but my K1500 uses leading/trailing shoes at the rear; I just hate 'em. I believe it's a poor design. I'd much prefer self-energizing shoes with the adjuster link at the bottom, like older vehicles.