Are Your Drilled & Slotted Rotors Facing The Right Direction? | PowerStop
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- NOTE: This video is specific to PowerStop Drilled & Slotted Rotors.
If you just acquired new Drilled & Slotted Rotors, it's important to know which is the left and right rotors. Installing the rotor correctly will allow for maximum cooling and long-term brake system performance. For PowerStop Drilled & Slotted Rotors, we provide a sticker on the hat of the rotor indicating which side it should be installed on.
Luckily, if your rotors are not labeled, there is an easy way to tell. On the top side of the rotor, follow up along the slot. If it is correct, it will point toward the back of the vehicle.
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mine are labeled. Bc they’re power stop rotors. 😉
Mine are labeled too also 150 cheaper than powerstop 🤷♂️
Mine are labeled but the slots and holes go the opposite direction.
If the internal fins are directional to expel heat then you can put them on the wrong way. The slots and drills have no specific direction required. Its the internal fins if your rotor has fins.
Baer rotors go in reverse of what was said here, make sure to consult your instructions for proper orientation.
So I’m actually looking at getting a brake set from you guys. But I do tow a heavy trailer and I have also heard of problems with drilled rotors.
I was always told that s/d rotors is to dispurse water from making your pads hydroplane GI ING you better breaking in rain.
Have a set of powerstops for my is350 F-sport ready to go on when I got time, hoping they’re good!
If you got the z36 package you will get a really long long life out of them. I have a 01 Durango 5.9 r/t and I have about 35k and my rotors look like new and 65%-70% left on the pads. I sometimes do towing and I definitely drive fast and brake hard. I usually got 1 or almost 2 years between the other brakes I used. Maybe I was thinking I probably did a really good brake in with really good quality parts.
Backwards to pull air in and cool
This week I received powerstop brake rotors and pad through amazon what can I say I'm disappointed at the fact that they had the description for the vehicle compatibility wrong and they sent me rotors that were bugger that the original rotors 😂😂😂 what a joke
Yet i saw so many people install them wrong
I keep seeing Dodge Challengers with mismatched or wrong way facing rotors. They came from the factory that way. It’s supposed to vent the gas to the outside of the wheel. Not concentrate it to the center.
You just see what you want to see 🤷♂️ the direction is determined by the internal vents not the visible slots 🤷♂️
@@jasoncaine2600 I had to really dig into the research to find this one. You are correct about the internal vents.
I found out companies like dodge and others saved money on manufacturing by making single direction slots. That’s why they don’t face the same directions on the left and right.
The original design was to exhaust the gasses between the pad and rotors. Now they say the backwards slots “clean the brake pad”.
Correct
Why do my z23 brakes sound like a playing card in a bicycle spoke?
Bro, me too. I’ve been chasing the sound and can’t find anything. Slow spin nothing, but then up to speed it clicks like crazy. Have you found anything yet?
@@MajinBrander my guess is the ends of the pads aren't quite the right size. So they're just bounching around in the bracket. Honestly I haven't gone back in yet to see what's really going on. Just too busy on other people's cars.
@@vermontvermont9292 I may try to switch back to oem sized pads. Only my rear wheels are doing it, my front are perfectly silent. Please let me know if you find something out, I’ll do the same.
@@MajinBrander will do. What car do you have btw?
@@vermontvermont9292 Nissan S14. You?
I just installed my backward. Is it ok to drive it a few hundred miles till I can swap it around?
Does your sound like the scrap if so i think i installed mine wrong too haha
@@williamoliveros76Mine makes a lot of noise Like bugs
@@bike4life153you found the problem ? I installed mines maybe a month ago on my 19 Honda pilot and sounds like bugs also or a clock😐 took everything off and check found nothing
@@BMR1009 its normal, absolutely normal
@@BMR1009 you can Google it, its common
They are noisy - hate it!!!
Don’t be fooled, drilled and slotted don’t cool anything better. It’s strictly to channel off gases from a melting pad away from the friction surface so the gasses don’t get trapped between the pad and rotor. In other words all these are is a bandaid for you melting brakes. Also don’t put any drilled and slotted on a off road vehicle, you will learn why after you go through any mud.
Wait bruh I got stuck in mud! With drilled and slotted brakes and my car makes funny noise when I brake , can you elaborate on what happens when you go through mud
@@AyeThereGoMalco also if you want to do something about it your options are to do nothing and play the gamble of what goes first the rock or your pad, or you can take your brakes apart than knock off any rocks embedded into the pad and inspect them to make sure they aren’t about to come apart. Replace pads and or rotors if need be.
@@flyingsavage8522 okay and the weird part is the brakes are new about 1000 miles but I put on aftermarket wheels and the spacer was the wrong size and the noise appeared I got the right size spacer and it’s still there?
@@AyeThereGoMalco did the sound start before or after you went through the mud? If before could be your tire is rubbing something, if it started after the mud it’s from rocks. For the rubbing check the tire and inner wheel well, if the sound is coming from your brake and gets louder when braking it’s rocks. Doesn’t matter if the brakes are new mud and rocks don’t care about miles.
Or just buy plane face rotors . Drilled is nothing but looks
I don't know about that. I noticed huge difference in braking distance when I got slotted ones. Only thing is the pads goes out faster. I'll trade that for safe stopping though.
@monkeyking-self-proclaimed7050 I said drilled . Slotted only gives a benefit in the fact that it wipes away a layer of pad all the time so you get a fresh layer for braking . That's why your pad life is worse than half of normal I bet .
95% of people would never notice w difference between an ok pad and slotted and good pads on a solid face quality rotor
Doesn’t matter, ask me because they don’t last long