WARNING! - 0 , ZERO Brake Pads for CCM GTR
04-23-2018, 10:36 AM
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WARNING! - 0 , ZERO Brake Pads for CCM GTR
Please be advised there are ZERO brake pads available for the AMG GTR at this time if you have Carbon Brakes. If you use up your pads, your car will sit.
My 2018 GTR is in buy back process because there is NO ETA on brake pad availability and I needed pads after just under 2k miles.
My 2018 GTR is in buy back process because there is NO ETA on brake pad availability and I needed pads after just under 2k miles.
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04-23-2018, 11:34 AM
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Please be advised there are ZERO brake pads available for the AMG GTR at this time if you have Carbon Brakes. If you use up your pads, your car will sit.
My 2018 GTR is in buy back process because there is NO ETA on brake pad availability and I needed pads after just under 2k miles.
My 2018 GTR is in buy back process because there is NO ETA on brake pad availability and I needed pads after just under 2k miles.
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04-23-2018, 12:33 PM
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Funny, I seem to drive kinda quick in my 4700 lb e63s wagon with CCB and they are like new after 6,000 mi. and my stock GTS iron brakes with 7,000 mi. are like new.
Maybe instead of panic braking into every corner try being smooth..
Maybe instead of panic braking into every corner try being smooth..
04-23-2018, 12:38 PM
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Further I’m wondering if these are Brembo CCMs which tend to use a standard pad size, hence maybe pads from another brand might fit.
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04-23-2018, 12:40 PM
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Please be advised there are ZERO brake pads available for the AMG GTR at this time if you have Carbon Brakes. If you use up your pads, your car will sit.
My 2018 GTR is in buy back process because there is NO ETA on brake pad availability and I needed pads after just under 2k miles.
My 2018 GTR is in buy back process because there is NO ETA on brake pad availability and I needed pads after just under 2k miles.
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04-23-2018, 12:55 PM
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The kind of scenarios that lead to high brake wear just don't exist on the road unless you're driving in an unsafe manner. Regardless of the curves or gradients you might find.
04-23-2018, 01:00 PM
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Please be advised there are ZERO brake pads available for the AMG GTR at this time if you have Carbon Brakes. If you use up your pads, your car will sit.
My 2018 GTR is in buy back process because there is NO ETA on brake pad availability and I needed pads after just under 2k miles.
My 2018 GTR is in buy back process because there is NO ETA on brake pad availability and I needed pads after just under 2k miles.
The bigger question is WHY after so few miles. That doesn’t make sense since at all. Also, these pads calipers and rotors have been and are being used on prior year models.
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04-23-2018, 04:32 PM
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Only a person who has never driven a car on a road course would equate aggressive street driving with the forces inherent on a car at speed on a circuit. They just aren't even close.
When you've worn out a set of DOT 'R' tyres and a set of race pads on a weekend, come back on here and try and criticise someone when you have a greater knowledge base.
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04-23-2018, 04:36 PM
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Jerry,
I believe that Brian has 'tracked' the car extensively. It is pretty damn easy to consume a set of brake pads in (sometimes) one, but certainly two or three weekend HPDE events, along with a couple of sets of tyres. This is the norm for drivers in the 'Advanced' run groups which is one reason many people running HPDEs count on it costing on average around $1,000/day for example. So it's not exactly a cheap hobby! lol
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04-23-2018, 06:31 PM
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Jerry,
I believe that Brian has 'tracked' the car extensively. It is pretty damn easy to consume a set of brake pads in (sometimes) one, but certainly two or three weekend HPDE events, along with a couple of sets of tyres. This is the norm for drivers in the 'Advanced' run groups which is one reason many people running HPDEs count on it costing on average around $1,000/day for example. So it's not exactly a cheap hobby! lol
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I believe that Brian has 'tracked' the car extensively. It is pretty damn easy to consume a set of brake pads in (sometimes) one, but certainly two or three weekend HPDE events, along with a couple of sets of tyres. This is the norm for drivers in the 'Advanced' run groups which is one reason many people running HPDEs count on it costing on average around $1,000/day for example. So it's not exactly a cheap hobby! lol
Bish
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04-23-2018, 07:25 PM
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It's hard to drive even 200 miles on a full track day, so 1000 miles could be 5 track days, which is much more than enough to use up a set of pads. I have used up pads in one day at the track on occasion.
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Only a person who has never driven a car on a road course would equate aggressive street driving with the forces inherent on a car at speed on a circuit. They just aren't even close.
When you've worn out a set of DOT 'R' tyres and a set of race pads on a weekend, come back on here and try and criticise someone when you have a greater knowledge base.
When you've worn out a set of DOT 'R' tyres and a set of race pads on a weekend, come back on here and try and criticise someone when you have a greater knowledge base.
1:17 Big Willow.. Willow Springs Raceway
Laguna Seca Raceway
Button Willow Raceway, also the fastest Lotus ever Willow Springs
Willow Springs Raceway, oh yeah I'm in the black R5 Turbo 1
04-24-2018, 12:13 AM
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this is nice, but how is this related to the shortage of gtr brake pads exactly?
04-24-2018, 05:30 AM
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That's a properly cool selection of machinery but I can't reconcile that with a post about road driving being just as hard as circuit driving on brakes. I don't know a single racing driver who would agree with you.
On track I brake at the absolute hardest level I can, there's simply no way anyone could do that safely on the road because they wouldn't have any margin for error should anything unexpected happen.
On track I brake at the absolute hardest level I can, there's simply no way anyone could do that safely on the road because they wouldn't have any margin for error should anything unexpected happen.
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That's a properly cool selection of machinery but I can't reconcile that with a post about road driving being just as hard as circuit driving on brakes. I don't know a single racing driver who would agree with you.
On track I brake at the absolute hardest level I can, there's simply no way anyone could do that safely on the road because they wouldn't have any margin for error should anything unexpected happen.
On track I brake at the absolute hardest level I can, there's simply no way anyone could do that safely on the road because they wouldn't have any margin for error should anything unexpected happen.
Anyway back to panic braking into every corner..
04-24-2018, 10:05 AM
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Please be advised there are ZERO brake pads available for the AMG GTR at this time if you have Carbon Brakes. If you use up your pads, your car will sit.
My 2018 GTR is in buy back process because there is NO ETA on brake pad availability and I needed pads after just under 2k miles.
My 2018 GTR is in buy back process because there is NO ETA on brake pad availability and I needed pads after just under 2k miles.
MB AMG GET MY NEW GTR READY.
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So 40 odd years ago you did run your cars on a road circuit, and yet you still arrogantly and ignorantly come on here belittling someone for not knowing how to drive their car on the brakes, and stating that ‘canyon carving’ is as hard on a car’s brakes as road course circuit driving. What a tool!
I'll stay smooth and have brakes when I need them...smooth is fast.
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You get my respect for a 1:17 at Big Willow. That is monstrously fast. Randy Pobst driving the wheels off a GTS turned a 1:27 I believe. Willow was my home track for a couple of years and my best time in my S2000 was a 1:24-25...and I can't tell you how fast a 1:17 is! Sure Ronin had huge HP - but to go through those corners at the high speed (and Willow is a high speed track) for a 1:17 is major car control and driving chops. Yes, none of this in a sense relates to AMG having pads available - but I shake my head at a 1:17. And in a door slammer! And he is so right about smooth is fast. The less one brakes through a turn the faster he is all down the straight following. The less braking the less the car is upset and hard to control. The higher the "min speed" in a corner the faster you are. And in a sense, brakes are the enemy of "min speed."
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So 40 odd years ago you did run your cars on a road circuit, and yet you still arrogantly and ignorantly come on here belittling someone for not knowing how to drive their car on the brakes, and stating that ‘canyon carving’ is as hard on a car’s brakes as road course circuit driving. What a tool!
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You get my respect for a 1:17 at Big Willow. That is monstrously fast. Randy Pobst driving the wheels off a GTS turned a 1:27 I believe. Willow was my home track for a couple of years and my best time in my S2000 was a 1:24-25...and I can't tell you how fast a 1:17 is! Sure Ronin had huge HP - but to go through those corners at the high speed (and Willow is a high speed track) for a 1:17 is major car control and driving chops. Yes, none of this in a sense relates to AMG having pads available - but I shake my head at a 1:17. And in a door slammer! And he is so right about smooth is fast. The less one brakes through a turn the faster he is all down the straight following. The less braking the less the car is upset and hard to control. The higher the "min speed" in a corner the faster you are. And in a sense, brakes are the enemy of "min speed."
Oh trust me after my 1:17 in my RS200E I was done with the track for a very long time... There was nothing worse than watching the dirt blowing across the track between turn 8 and 9 as you enter at serious speed.
The Lotus with 290whp was pulling 1:26.
As for a track day car I would run steel not CCB unless you are gettin sponsored by AMG
