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#1 of 3 Brake upgrades on 2005 Armada/Titan by portman200 Aug 17, 2009 (8:09 pm)
My Armada has about 65K miles on it and I bought it with about 40k 2 years ago. Last week I noticed a decrease in brake performance and squeaking from the front end. I looked at the rotors and found a deep gouge in the drivers side rotor and waves in both rotors. I started looking online for replacement brakes and came across a company who sold performance brake parts.   I tow our 30' camper with a Blue Ox weight distributing hitch and it has plenty of power and stops ok (I think the trailer brakes worked the hardest). Since the rotors need replacing I have decided to go with dimpled and slotted rotors with premiume pads on the front and regular pads on the rear.   Has anyone converted to drilled and slotted rotors or installed a trany cooler on this vehicle to assist with towing? Replies to this message: titan8 (Oct 15, 2009 5:08 pm) paisan (Oct 18, 2009 7:24 pm)
#2 of 3 Re: Brake upgrades on 2005 Armada/Titan [portman200] by titan8 Oct 15, 2009 (5:08 pm)
Replying to: portman200 (Aug 17, 2009 8:09 pm) I have a titan truck 2004 and let me tell you I had my share of warp rotors, front and rear, mainly fronts, Nissan covered me up to 75,000 miles and now on my own, so I did alot of research on brakes and bought the slotted/ dimpled rotors for the front and rear, and semi metallic pads, I only have 200 miles right now on these rotors so time will tell. I had a very hard time removing the rear rotors and found out why-- The emergency brakes shoes ( both sides) came unglued---bonded pads-- and made a deep grove in the rotor/ drum making the rotor very hard to come off. So if anyone has a hard time removing the rear rotors, your emergency brakes shoes are wiped out. also make sure you replace all parts for the emergency brakes,adjusters, clips etc. Replies to this message: paisan (Oct 18, 2009 7:24 pm)
#3 of 3 Re: Brake upgrades on 2005 Armada/Titan [titan8] by paisan Oct 18, 2009 (7:24 pm)
Replying to: titan8 (Oct 15, 2009 5:08 pm) I tow an 11,500lb Cigarette Boat trailer with my 04 Armada. I have 65k miles and replaced the rotors once around 30k with OEM Rotors and Akebono Pro Act Ceramic Pads. So far at 65k miles the pads and rotors are fine. I did upgrade the pads and rotors and braking system on the boat trailer to discs from drums which helped a bit. Otherwise though I've had good luck.   I never suggest doing drilled or dimpled rotors due to it creating weak points in the rotors.   -mike

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