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04-24-2009, 05:42 PM
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Drives: 2010 2SS Join Date: Apr 2009
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STICK-ON WEIGHTS
Those are wheel weights from the wheelroom. Those are used on the flangeless wheels and are adhesive, If you got this on your Camaro look into getting the proper fix thats available. Flangeless wheel weights are unaccceptable stuck on brakes! The multiple of weights only offset the problem, not fix it.
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04-24-2009, 05:57 PM
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 Drives: Turbocharged Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: USA
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I'm glad many people are not bothered by these metal pieces stuck to the brake calipers. However, I probably will reject my Camaro if these metal pieces are stuck on the calipers. For $37k I expect better than a Mickey Moused car.
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04-24-2009, 06:00 PM
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Go Blue!!!!!
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04-24-2009, 07:24 PM
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 Dude I and thousands on here call your bluff!
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04-24-2009, 07:30 PM
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No, really, it's ok if he rejects it. Tell them to deliver it to me instead.
Give me your brake-weighted, your V6, Your OEM intakes yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your holding lot. Send these, the rejected, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! I will be the clearing house for your poor, wretched, brake weight equipped Camaros. I will accept your lowly LS, your unmodified car, your base model, your steel wheels, your OEM mufflers. Give to me your Camaro, and I shall make a good life for it, commuting on abandoned country roads, flying around turns, playing my music through the Aux-In because I don't have a USB port. I will accept your Camaro, sir.
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Removing weight has surprisingly little effect on fuel economy
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04-24-2009, 11:22 PM
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 Drives: 92 Bonnie SSEI - 2010 GT Soon Join Date: Apr 2009
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This thread just gets more and more interesting. I happen to be an engineer, and I will bet that the weights was a method that was used to see if the noise can be dampened, but that management forced them to actually USE the weights, under the protest of the engineers. I don't know an engineer who would have suggested such a fix to go out to the customer.
As far as the "official" GM explanation, it makes no sense to say that high performance cars are especially prone to brake noise. That's just a cute way of taking your focus off of the problem and puffing you up by telling you that you have some sort of special exotic vehicle. Every car on the road stops in just about the same way, with a brake pad pushed up against a rotor. It's just a BS statement. Don't get me wrong, I love this new Camaro. But I worked as an auto mechanic for many years, and just have to say I have never seen such a mickey-mouse bandaid before.
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04-24-2009, 11:32 PM
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Drives: 2017 Camaro 2SS Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: GA
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Brake calipers
We need to find out from members who take delivery or from Camaroscotty when the cars will come in without caliper weights? ie, what VIN number the cars will have no weights on them starting at.
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04-24-2009, 11:37 PM
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por que?
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04-24-2009, 11:38 PM
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To the OP......Don't really know what that means? Can you tell us?
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04-24-2009, 11:41 PM
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He is talking about the ugly add on weights they tacked on to get rid of noise.
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04-24-2009, 11:42 PM
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It means" why ?"
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04-24-2009, 11:49 PM
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Si... Why?
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04-24-2009, 11:51 PM
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Que??
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04-24-2009, 11:54 PM
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