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Originally Posted by SRT8DRVR

Thanks for responding Dave.

I can see and feel grooves in both front rotors and drivers rear, but not passenger rear. Car had 600 miles on it when I bedded-in on Friday. Don't know if there were grooves before as I was not aware of the grooving issue and didn't think to look. Based on some others complaints, sounds like they could have been there though I have been very gentle on the car during breakin.

On the bed-in here is what I did:

First try on Tuesday I did 3 warm ups mild braking 60-40mph. Then got in 7 or 8 hard braking runs form 65 to 5 or 10 without lockup. After that, too much traffic to do another run so bagged it and went home.

Friday same routine ( earlier in AM) , and did a 10 stop run, drove 20 minutes to cool down (ambient temp was around 25 degrees F) then did another 10 stop run, drove 20 minutes and went home and back to sleep. This is straight out of Stop-Tech guidance.

As for performance, I wasn't all over the brakes before so for that reason and not being an expert, I can't really tell. But the brakes were mighty good to begin with and my real intent was to get more life and less dust as described by Stop-Tech and others in their tech guidance. ( They sure stopped fast, controlled and straight on the bed-in runs).

So I guess for now I have to go on faith I did the right thing for the brakes, live with the SRT8 pad issues and as you suggest wait out the Hawks and try for a warranty rotor replacement. Or their may be some nice matched cross-drilled avialable by then?

Keith

Guys the SRT-10 trucks have first class brakes and none of the brake dust or rotor issues that the SRT-8 cars have what gives?