Some brake info

adjmcloon · 12-05-2004, 10:48 AM

A member of a QX56 board was wondering why there were no brake upgrades for the 05's. A person replied with (it seems) some insider-type information regarding the upcoming brake recall in April of 2005. Like all things, who knows if it's true but it's an interesting read anyway. Checkit:

"You are correct in stating that there was no brake upgrade. Nissan/Infiniti are aware of the Brake problems, and are set to implement a bigger brake caliper & rotor in early April 2005. This is the time that the line will start producing vehicles with the upgraded brakes. Then you will see a TSB for the thousands of owners of these and the Titans and Armadas. The engineers also found out that there was a problem with the proportioning valve in the Master cylinder, basically the fronts were doing to much of the braking. This has already been addressed, just waiting for the factory testing to conclude, and the suppliers to get ready for the thousands of rotors and calipers that will be needed once they go live with the upgrades. Hope this helps. "

pciley · 12-05-2004, 10:50 AM

Very nice! Thank you for the info.

Pugsly · 12-05-2004, 11:22 AM

so we are all in store for new calipers, rorotrs and master cylanders? that'll be quite a job to do and i'll be first in line at my dealer.

adjmcloon · 12-05-2004, 11:39 AM

No doubt. Might as well have them install stainless lines for us while they're in there for our trouble too. I'd purchase them, of course, but why not?

Hmmm....